Acne Studios x Jonathan Lyndon Chase *Exhibition

Acne Studios x Jonathan Lyndon Chase
*Celebration of Identity and Intimacy

written AMANDA MORTENSON

Visitors to Frieze New York 2025 are welcomed by a vibrant new encounter between art and fashion. Acne Studios deepens its creative dialogue with Philadelphia-based artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase through a capsule collection and exhibition at Greene Street, New York.

This collaboration is rooted in mutual admiration and expands on Chase’s earlier work for Acne Studios’ Spring/Summer 2025 womenswear show, where soft sculptures and expressive objects transformed the runway into a layered domestic setting.

The creative partnership flourishes once again in May, as Acne Studios Greene Street transforms into an exhibition space. The installation features an evocative blend of soft sculpture, painting, and sculptural furniture. Each work carries the emotional depth and physicality that define Lyndon Chase’s practice. Their characters, often drawn from personal relationships, appear across the space in a dynamic interplay of form and material.

(c) ACNE Studios
Jonathan Lyndon Chase Capsule Collection

(c) ACNE Studios

The setting channels a powerful sense of home and tenderness, shaped by Chase’s rich aesthetic language. Their pieces reinterpret familiar objects, lamps, fans, sinks, radios, picture frames, and place them into a new emotional context. Through this lens, domesticity becomes a site of queerness and personal narrative.

Alongside the exhibition, the exclusive capsule collection ‘Acne Studios Loves Jonathan Lyndon Chase’ launches with a range of expressive pieces. Chase’s illustrations, which evoke intimacy and connection, animate garments and homeware. Acne Studios’ iconic bow motif receives a vivid transformation through Chase’s hand, adding new texture to its recognisable design elements.

The capsule includes Acne Studios’ ‘1981’ jeans reimagined through Chase’s sensibility, as well as long- and short-sleeved T-shirts that serve as wearable canvases. Homeware pieces—cushions and a blanket—extend the collection’s narrative into interior spaces, offering warmth and visual storytelling. The textile choices play with illusion; denim-like finishes recall Acne Studios’ origins while welcoming softness and touch.

Chase’s artwork moves fluidly across these forms, creating a collection where each piece holds meaning beyond material. Their figures (often inspired by friends or/and lovers) emerge through loose, expressive lines that feel immediate and layered. The use of color and gesture carries emotion in every detail, inviting closeness and reflection.

The Greene Street space becomes a gallery and boutique, offering an immersive view of Chase’s world. It provides room for dialogue between fashion and art, and for personal histories to find shape through creativity. The pieces shown extend beyond the runway installation, including new works crafted especially for this moment.

Launched on May 7, the collection became available exclusively at Acne Studios Greene Street before expanding to selected Acne Studios stores and online from late June 2025. Its limited release mirrors the ephemeral quality of both the exhibition and the Frieze New York event, creating a sense of intimacy and connection with those who experience it. Jonathan Lyndon Chase continues to gain recognition for a practice that merges visual art, performance, and material experimentation. Their work often centers themes of identity, Blackness, queerness, and emotional presence. In this collaboration, Chase’s voice remains clear and celebrated, fully integrated into the Acne Studios universe without dilution.

(c) ACNE Studios
Jonathan Lyndon Chase Capsule Collection

(c) ACNE Studios

(c) ACNE Studios
Jonathan Lyndon Chase Capsule Collection

The exhibition and capsule are driven by shared values, an embrace of personal storytelling, emotional resonance, and visual boldness. Through this union, Acne Studios demonstrates once again its ongoing commitment to supporting visionary artists. This latest chapter in the Acne Studios x Jonathan Lyndon Chase collaboration reinforces the role of fashion as an expressive medium. It invites us all to engage with art beyond walls and to wear pieces that speak of connection and imagination.

George Byrne x Son of a Tailor *SS25

Wear the Contrast
SON OF A TAILOR
*George Byrne’s Capsule for Wildfire Relief

written AMANDA MORTENSON

A city is never neutral in George Byrne’s work. Its forms, shadows, lines, and spaces absorb and reflect.

This sensitivity to urban rhythm now moves into textile, as Byrne unveils a limited-edition capsule of T-shirts created in partnership with Copenhagen label Son of a Tailor. The three-piece capsule is part of the brand’s Canvas series, which invites artists to use the T-shirt as a medium of expression. Byrne’s works for this collection were made during a focused period in Copenhagen, with all proceeds supporting California wildfire relief via the California Community Foundation’s CalFund.

George Byrne
Clock Tower, 2024

George Byrne
Pink and Blue Wall, 2024

“It wasn’t just fashion for the sake of it—there was a great cause at the heart of it, and that made it meaningful.”

George Byrne on his collaboration with Son of a Tailor
SS2025

The connection is personal. “Supporting wildfire relief in California gave the project a personal edge,” Byrne says. “It was a way to give back to a city that’s given me so much.” Printed on 100% Supima cotton, produced in Portugal and made-to-order, the shirts are available in both custom and standard fits. Each of the three artworks is limited to 250 editions, individually numbered and never to be repeated. The scale of the print dominates the back; the front carries a label marking its edition. These aren’t souvenirs, but archive-bound objects made for wear.

The pieces emerged through Byrne’s immersion in Copenhagen—his first time in the city. “Landing in Copenhagen from LA does feel like being dropped on another planet—in the best way,” he says. “The pace, the architecture, the way people move through space—it all shaped how I engaged with the project.” His compositions draw from what he calls a dialogue between environments: the structured rhythm of Copenhagen and the emotional texture of Los Angeles. Having lived over a decade in LA, Byrne is deeply familiar with its volatility.

“Wildfires are a part of life here. I grew up in Sydney, so I know that strange orange light, the acrid air,” he shares. “It changes how you see things. I wanted to take that emotional residue and build it into something constructive.”

For Son of a Tailor, choosing Byrne for the Canvas series was more than an aesthetic alignment—it was a reflection of shared intent. “There’s a kind of understated elegance in inviting an artist to work with the T-shirt,” says Andreas Langhorn, co-founder and product director of the brand. “George’s approach to architecture, color, and form felt right for the Canvas series. And knowing he already wore our T-shirts every day added another layer of authenticity.”

Langhorn had followed Byrne’s work since his book Post Truth and was particularly drawn to his interpretation of West Coast light. “That aesthetic struck a chord with me,” he notes. “My family lives in California, so there was also a personal draw. It all came together very naturally.”

“We designed this Canvas edition to let the artwork breathe... It’s wearable art with purpose.”

Andreas Langhorn, Co-Founder of Son of a Tailor

George Byrne
White Wall

The collaboration is produced in alignment with Son of a Tailor’s values—zero overproduction, full transparency, and B Corp certification. Every shirt is made-to-order to avoid waste. “We designed this Canvas edition to let the artwork breathe,” Langhorn says. “The oversized prints reference vintage graphic tees but with refined construction.”

Byrne sees the gesture of donating all proceeds not as marketing but as an act of alignment. “You don’t often see that level of commitment—100% of proceeds,” he says. “It shows what’s possible when you lead with values.” Langhorn echoes the sentiment: “Sincerity is everything. People recognize when something is real. This collaboration reflects who we are—and who George is—on many levels.”

The George Byrne x Son of a Tailor capsule is available for pre-order from April 24 at sonofatailor.com

Dior Maison by Sam Baron during Salone del Mobile

Salone Del Mobile
ODE À LA NATURE
*Sam Baron Presents Dior Maison

written Amanda Mortenson

Dior Maison returns to Salone del Mobile 2025 with a new collection designed by Sam Baron. Ode à la nature introduces a series of handcrafted glass objects that focus on form, material, and historic continuity.

The presentation aligns with the fair’s 2025 theme “Materia Natura,” which addresses the intersection of material culture and environmental attention. The collection includes vases, carafes, candlesticks, and dishes, all produced using Italian mouth-blown glass. Transparent surfaces reveal botanical motifs—branches, leaves, wheat—applied with precision and restraint.

DIOR unveils three exceptional vases of the "ODE À LA NATURE" collection, dreamed up by Sam Baron


seen by Laora Queyras

Each piece rests on a solid base. The silhouettes follow soft curves. The surface treatment, defined by a striated finish, reflects light and highlights the structure of the object. The design references the amphora of the original Miss Dior bottle from 1947 and draws on the archive’s historic elements, including a duck-shaped carafe.
The objects are produced through collaboration with Italian artisans. The glassblowing process brings slight variations in shape and density, making each work unique. The absence of superfluous detail leaves space for material and line. Presented in Milan among international contributions to contemporary design, the collection establishes a clear position for Dior Maison.

Attention is placed on craftsmanship, clarity of form, and respect for origin. Sam Baron’s direction follows an established aesthetic while proposing a new rhythm through proportion and composition.

Ode à la nature becomes part of Dior’s ongoing dialogue with domestic culture and seasonal materiality. Stay tuned.

Frank Gehry x Louis Vuitton *Art Basel 2024

Floating Vision with Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry’s Architectural Dream at Art Basel

written Monica de Luna

Grand Palais, Art Basel Paris 2024—Louis Vuitton enters the scene with a bold vision that fuses fashion, art, and architecture into something entirely new.

Frank Gehry’s latest creation hovers above the space like an otherworldly presence, pushing past the expected and inviting us into a surreal, experimental universe. This is an awakening—a dynamic collision of creative forces that demands attention.

Perched on the Balcon d'Honneur, Gehry’s creations take command, embodying a raw force of nature. A colossal white fish hovers above the staircase, ghostly and alive with energy, fusing strength and fragility in a way that reflects Gehry’s signature approach.

The sculpture speaks to his relentless exploration of boundaries, where aerodynamics and chaotic elegance seamlessly converge, shifting our perception of space, function, and beauty into a realm that feels untouchable.

At the core of the exhibition is Louis Vuitton’s audacious vision, a bold move that embraces Gehry’s boundary-pushing creativity. Since 1854, Vuitton has thrived on fearless experimentation, and here they let Gehry fully unleash his architectural prowess.

His designs for the Capucines Mini Blossom and MM Concrete Pockets radiate with the same energy as his monumental structures. These bags transcend fashion, merging leather, glass, and metal into sculptural forms that carry the essence of Gehry’s architectural DNA.

Capucines BB Twisted Tower
seen (c) Philippe Lacombe

Capucines Mini Blossom
seen (c) Philippe Lacombe

Gehry’s Twisted Box is the exhibit’s undeniable centerpiece. The trunk, a Louis Vuitton icon, undergoes a radical transformation. Every corner, every curve defies logic, as if the object itself has been stretched, fractured, and reassembled with an electrifying tension. Yet somehow, amidst the chaos, there’s a harmonious balance—an unexpected unity within the deconstruction.

This tension is the essence of Gehry’s work with Louis Vuitton. His bags transcend function, embodying the spirit of his most legendary structures. The BB Analog pulls directly from the IAC Building in New York, while the MM Floating Fish bag draws inspiration from Gehry’s signature scales, intricately embedded into leather. His architectural language seamlessly flows into the world of high fashion, turning each piece into a wearable masterpiece. In this exhibition traditional craftsmanship meets experimental design, immersing viewers and wearers in a powerful experience.

Architectural sketch
(c) Frank Gehry

seen (c) Yong Joon Choi

Frank Gehry’s work with Louis Vuitton reshapes the concept of luxury itself. At Art Basel Paris 2024, the vision is unapologetically avant-garde and unsettling. Louis Vuitton and Gehry challenge conventions, leaving us curious for what follows.

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(c) Louis Vuitton & Frank Gehry for Art Basel 2024