Stylist Charlotte Collet’s Ethos Is Endearingly Offbeat
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
Stylist Charlotte Collet’s Ethos Is Endearingly Offbeat
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Andrée Putman—the 90s Style Icon Who Designed the First Boutique Hotel and the Interiors for the Concorde—Is Back in the Spotlight
Hannah Martin revisits Andrée Putman’s enduring influence, as the late French designer’s eponymous studio enters a new chapter. Known for the checkerboard bathrooms of Morgans Hotel, Concorde interiors and a talent for making the inexpensive feel exceptional, Putman defined a restrained but unmistakable approach to design. Now, her daughter Olivia and CEO Aurélie Laure are reviving the archive through new showrooms and more than 60 reissued designs.
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
Writer Maggie Nelson sits down with Catherine Opie ahead of To Be Seen at the National Galleries of Scotland. Across six decades of work, Opie reflects on photography as a way of making sense of belonging and American life, from her early portraits of queer communities to landscapes and football players. Now approaching 65, she is reconsidering autobiography and the freedoms of beginning again.
ANOTHER MAGAZINE
Jacob Gallagher profiles Charlotte Collet for The New York Times, tracing the French stylist’s rise from a rural upbringing to collaborations with Auralee, Jil Sander and Louis Vuitton. Collet’s appeal lies in making fashion feel lived-in: an awkward shirt, unexpected belt or work boot can undo an otherwise polished look. Her approach favours real clothes over spectacle, proving that styling’s smallest decisions can completely change how we see them.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
This article visits Chava Studio, Olivia Villanti’s Mexico City temple to shirting. Born from Villanti’s obsession with masculine tailoring, Chava reworks menswear codes for women through structured collars, considered proportions and deadstock European fabrics, with each shirt made locally by hand. Its Barragán-adjacent boutique follows suit: part modernist dressing room, part “shirt cave,” and increasingly a destination for the city’s visiting fashion obsessives.
HOW TO SPEND IT
Tracey Emin’s Strangeland, newly reissued for its 20th anniversary, is a memoir tracing the making of one of contemporary art’s most pivotal figures. Unfolding in three parts, “Motherland,” “Fatherland” and “Traceyland”, it moves between her childhood in Margate, Cypriot heritage and life as a young artist in London where Emin recounts the experiences that would become inseparable from her practice. Intimate and unsparing, the memoir reveals how her memories and identity became the raw material of her body of work.