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Meg Webster and Comme des Garçons Debut New Perfume

Meg Webster and Comme des Garçons Debut New Perfume

Like lingering petrichor or damp earth, Meg Webster’s sculptures envelop the senses—hardly surprising, as they emerge from “soil, sand, and salt,” in the words of the DIA Art Foundation, a longtime guardian of her work. For years, visitors have been invited to step around and into the shadow of her earthworks, installed as mounds and pillars along the gallery floor.   Starting March 19, those encounters will be bottled and available year-round, thanks to a collaboration between Webster, DIA, and Comme des Garçons, which has produced the artist’s first signature perfume. According to a sample sent to the ARTnews office, the scent is gender-neutral, woodsy, and slow-suffusing—with a late spark of musk, like a fallen branch underfoot, cracking the stillness. The fragrance is housed in a polished silver tetrahedral (a triangular pyramid) box, a form familiar from Webster’s visual vocabulary.  Related Articles “I make sculptural works with natural materials, formed into primary geometric shapes meant to be directly perceived by the body. The making should be visible,” Webster told ARTnews. “The perfume we created with DIA strives to be a primary fragrance—like the air after a spring rain or a walk in the deep forest.”  Polished Tetrahedron for Sometimes Containing Water Collectors of the Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons, founded by Rei Kawakubo in 1969, know it …

Timothée Chalamet Is Leading the Comme Des Garçons PLAY Revival

Timothée Chalamet Is Leading the Comme Des Garçons PLAY Revival

If a 2016 revival is really and truly upon us, then we must prepare to reevaluate any and all hypebeast-golden-era trends with clear eyes, and, most importantly, full hearts. Especially when those eyes and hearts align. Last night, actor and lifelong hypebeast Timothée Chalamet made moves towards this end as he continued his Oscar campaign with a Q&A panel moderated by his A Complete Unknown costar, Elle Fanning, in Los Angeles. For the occasion, he donned a nostalgic garment: a blue-and-white-striped button-up shirt from Comme des Garçons PLAY, the influential Japanese fashion label’s once-ubiquitous, since-maligned diffusion line that first launched in 2002. The sub-brand’s emblem—a little heart with eyes—felt inescapable a decade ago, but is a rare sighting today. Chalamet styled his with light-wash jeans and box-fresh white sneakers—another style seemingly resurrected from the late-2010s trend graveyard. Timothée Chalamet wearing Comme Des Garçons PLAY in Los Angeles, on Thursday. DUTCH/Bauer-Griffin There was a time in the not-so-distant past when high fashion and hype felt indistinguishable. Splashy, limited-edition items like a hoodie from the graffiti-inspired GucciGhost …