Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? A multi-brand Italian luxury boutique opens on Bond Street, Alex Katz’s new paintings debut at MoMA and Arc’teryx introduces a new collection designed by an indigenous artist.
CIAO BELLA: LuisaViaRoma’s first shop outside Italy opens on Bond Street Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of LuisaViaRoma. Here’s all you need to know: it’s a multi-brand luxury fashion and home shop stocked with names like Chloé, Maison Margiela, Jil Sander, and Lanvin as well as New York designers Gabriela Hearst, Proenza Schouler, and Helmut Lang. All under one roof.
The original boutique is in Florence, Italy, and their New York City location just opened at 1 Bond Street. It spans over 11,000 square feet on two floors, includes private shopping, a “discrete VIP entrance,” and is just a block away from Il Buco, where you can toast your purchases. LuisaViaRoma .
com HISTORY LESSON: Arc’teryx Walk Greatly collection Arc’teryx has just debuted Walk Greatly, a design platform for indigenous voices. It’s the vision of artist and designer Cole Sparrow-Crawford, from the Musqueam Nation in the Coast Salish territories. The seven-piece collection, inspired by the traditional indigenous practices of fishi.