Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion awards, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and popular cultural events in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the best things to see, buy, taste and experience around town.
What’s making our luxury list this week? Andrew Scott on stage, Axel Arigato’s opens their first US store, and the Brooklyn Heights showroom offers big in-house treats.
Andrew Scott – our favorite (fill in the blank) priest, reclusive writer, serial killer – will reprise his acclaimed performance in Vanya, a “radical new adaptation” of Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya. That adaptation, an Olivier Award-winning production he co-created, will have its U.S. premiere in March at the Lucille Lortel Theater in the West Village. In a statement, Scott said: “I love this masterpiece of a drama. I love these heartbreaking, hilarious, sexy characters. I love my colleagues with whom I did this show. I love New York. So I couldn’t be more excited to bring “Vanya” to audiences at the Lortel Theatre. See you then!” Opening night is set for Tuesday, March 18, but super fans take note: tickets are available now. VanyaOnStage.com
Axel Arigato – the Japanese brand often mistaken for being based in Sweden – has opened its first US store in our fair city. The 1,130-square-foot space at the corner of Lafayette and Prince was designed by Halleroed, (who also did Toteme’s new Madison Avenue store) with a minimalist Scandinavian aesthetic. The brand, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is stocking the store in question with all the expected footwear and ready-to-wear styles, plus a limited-edition capsule collection created especially for its NYC debut . AxelArigato.com
The latest iteration of the Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse is now open at 182 Clinton Street. This, the fourth edition, is set in a late Greek Revival townhouse on Doctor’s Row, where 16 interior designers worked their magic so that the rest of us can be inspired and benefit from a charity in this process. Fun fact about this house: past residents include Bill and Lois Wilson, who founded Alcoholics Anonymous there in 1934. Proceeds from the exhibit support the Brooklyn Heights Association; it is open until November 3. BrooklynDesignerShowhouse.com
There are only a few weeks left to see Bombshell, an exhibition of photographs by Ethan James Green at Kapp Kapp (86 Walker Street, 4th Floor). Green is known for black-and-white portraits that capture the lives of his friends in New York, which include actress Hari Nef, artist Connie Fleming, Interview Magazine fashion director Dara Allen, artist and actress Martine Gutierrez, and fashion editor Gabriella Karefa- Johnson. This latest body of work “subverts the idea of the stereotypical ‘bombshell’, exploring and reinterpreting the concept by inviting its models to style and pose themselves in ways that embody their personal vision of femininity, glamor and sex appeal.” If you can’t make it to the gallery in time, consider the limited edition book, published by Baron Books, with art direction by Ben Kelway, creative director of Arena Homme Plus and POP Magazine. KappKapp.com
Salomon, the brand born in the French Alps 75 years ago whose mission is “to help people discover the best version of themselves through a deeper connection with nature”, has opened a pop-up window in 169 Spring Street in Soho. It will be open until January and is considered a “trial” as they think of an important situation here. For now, fans of the brand can shop their Sportstyle offerings IRL, including the ACS, Speedcross 3, XT-6 and ultra-loud Snowclog. Salomon.com
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