The new exhibit, titled The Beautiful Collection: Prince's Custom Shoes, will open on July 9 at Paisley Park, and tickets go on sale today. More than 300 pairs of Prince's shoes will be on display, many custom-made for his performances or music videos or in collaboration with designers and close friends, such as Donatella Versace. YSL Sale
If radicalite exists today, it is heterogenous and more individualized rather than one movement of people giving way to another. It may look like Mickalene Thomas's Resist paintings on view at Levy Gorvy. Part of a four-city exhibition, the collaged archival images of socio-political events are overlaid with Swarovski crystal outlines of Picasso's Guernica.
For years I have been a large-bag person-not only to accommodate this brick of a wallet but to make sure I Saint Laurent Shoes could handle all manner of mishaps: laptops that had lost their charge, episodes of low blood sugar, blotchy skin, a westerly wind. The top-handle bag from Han's eponymous collection of leather goods was elegant and minimal.
Instead of opting for comfy sweats or athleisure for the outing, Gaga put her Mother Monster style into full effect and looked as if she just stepped off the set of one of her Chromatica music videos. Gaga wore a black vinyl trench, pairing it with a pink hoodie that looks similar to some of her new merch pieces. For that signature Gaga touch, she also added some sky-high platforms because the singer loves death-defying footwear. Even her mask was in tune with the edgy ensemble, too, as it's holographic. Though compared to the over-the-top face coverings she wore to this year's VMAs, it's a much more streamlined mask.
Fun fact: Margaret Thatcher also had a penchant for the impeccably crafted Launer bags, but she was most photographed carrying the Olympia style. From my research, it turns out the YSL Sneakers queen often uses her purse as a signal to the people around her that she's ready to leave one place and head to another.
When it came time to design the assortment of shoes, Porter and Jimmy Choo's Sandra Choi knew they wanted to release it during Pride month. Billy is a true original, says Choi. He embodies the Jimmy Choo ethos with his daring spirit on and off the red carpet. As a result, Porter also drew from the history and iconography of queer style to find the right look and feel for it. The inspiration was Pride, and everything goes back to the flag, he says. Porter wanted to take the iconic rainbow flag and use it as a reference for the shoe colorways. The pride flag is beautiful and I love the new version with the transgender colors, but for my taste, I'm not a big primary color person, says Porter. I wanted to take the colors of the flag and reinterpret them to feel a little bit more luxurious.
