L'OFFICIEL USA

L’Officiel USA share its international vision with a US audience. Combining both men’s and women’s fashion in a bi-monthly publication in conjunction with its digital platform, lofficielusa.com— which features daily, exclusive multi-media content—L’Officiel USA provides readers with the very best that fashion, art, music, film, and culture have to offer.

L’OFFICIEL

Such Great HEIGHTS • In-demand actor and Tiffany & Co. ambassador Adria Arjona considers the view from atop a major moment.

Layers of MEANING • In her provocative designs, Lizzie Grover Rad uncompromisingly wears her ideals on her sleeve (and coat).

The Surreal WORLD • A languid fantasy of hyperpigmented glamour.

GOING Green • Bulgari showcases exquisite emeralds in its newest high jewelry collection, inspired by the natural world and its many wonders.

GEMS Abound • Harry Winston’s Majestic Escapes collection is a wearable trip to the world’s most beautiful destinations.

Grand Tour • For Gucci’s third high jewelry collection, Creative Director Alessandro Michele traces a path from the mid-19th century all the way to the 1970s. Topaz, opals, amethyst, diamonds, and more dazzle in a rainbow of hues, for a look that favors the bold.

Wrap it UP • Actress and activist Maggie Q wears Loro Piana’s new Cocooning Collection, an elevated take on cozy loungewear.

DESIGNED to Carry • Louis Vuitton partners with six global artists to create nine strikingly distinct renditions of the iconic Capucines bag.

On the VERGE • Four bright young Juilliard School talents on receiving this year’s Fendi Vanguard Awards.

Prophetic VISIONS • The late artist Michel Majerus had an eye on the convergence of art, media, and advertising long before AI became the central point of conversation.

L’ART

EULOGY for the MALE GAZE • The artist Emma Stern’s work features women who are unabashed in their hotness, the Male Gaze be damned.

WHAT Do You MEME? • Art criticism and art meet in the Duchampian digital space.

COUTURE Creatures • Highly experimental plays well with intricately tailored details.

GAME Theory • Mimosa Echard’s work imagines a simple organism’s transformative journey through a psychedelic, fluid universe.

Exploring the HYDRA • Curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum collaborate with artists in exciting new digital mediums.

NEW SKIN for the OLD CEREMONY • Isabelle Albuquerque’s sculptures explore and subvert the centuries-long tradition of stolen female agency throughout art history.

Wunderkammer • Early museums organized their treasures into four categories: Artificialia, Naturalia, Scientifica, and Exotica…In an homage to these ideas, a group of creatives get lost in this season’s most inspiring curiosities.

Silicon DREAMS • With the AI system DALL-E 2, the Valley stole our attention, and made us collectively lame.

GAINED in TRANSLATION • Artist Dana-Fiona Armour’s work seeks to forge communication within and between species. Curator and art critic Nicolas Bourriaud gets to the heart of the matter.

Blurring THE LINES • Six young artists on using technology in their work, the border between “real” and “virtual,” and what it all means for the future of art itself.

SHAPE Shifter • With reproductive rights severely under attack in the U.S., and women’s bodies yet again a battleground, feminist artist Miriam Schapiro’s groundbreaking work becomes urgently relevant, again.

Photographer Thomas Ruff’s images confront reality, explored here in this excerpt from L’OFFICIEL Art’s debut issue.