Mkrs Paris E-Shop Primed for Launch | Dover Street Little Market | Café Kistuné | FIAC Viewing Rooms | Warhol Photos | Rombaut

Mkrs. Paris Shop Launch

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This month the full scope of our Mkrs. project comes to life with the launch of both an e-shop and a physical space in Paris (75002). Expect to discover a carefully curated and constantly evolving selection of souvenirs, gifts & curiosities dreamed up here in Paris by the community of local artisans, artists & ideas people who make the city tick! Mkrs. is concerned with sincerity, quality of life, craft and community. With making, not faking. More deets coming soon! >mkrs.family

Opening of the Week – Dover Street Little Market

Following its local debut in 2019 with a Marais-based beauty and fragrance store, the all-conquering avant-garde retailer launches Dover Street Little Market today. Facing the Comme des Garçons Paris flagship, the small but perfectly formed address formerly housed the brand's museum-retail hybrid "Trading Museum." From now on it will showcase seven fast-rising designers falling under the umbrella of the Dover Street Market Paris Company’s brand development division, including Berlin’s Honey Fucking Dijon, New York’s Vaquera and Singapore’s Youths in Balaclava. >@doverstreetlittlemarket

Coffee Break – Café Kitsuné Vertbois

The French-Japanese lifestyle brand got into the specialist-coffee game back in 2013 when they opened a roastery in Okayama, Japan. Their much-loved Palais-Royal espresso bar here in Paris followed soon after. Fast-forward to the present and founders Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki have inaugurated a first roastery in Europe at 30 rue du Vertbois in the Haut Marais. Foremost a production site run by artisan roaster Florian Decousser, with freshly roasted beans and ground coffees available in-store alongside Café Kitsuné’s ultra-cute tableware, it also serves as a café where you can swing by for an espresso, dirty chai or pastry. >@cafekitsune

Life in Paris

FIAC Online Viewing Rooms – Ahead of a move to the Grand Palais Ephémère for its 2021 edition in Oct, FIAC is going digital with this new event, running 4-7 March. Some 200 international galleries are joining the party, featuring curators like the Palais de Tokyo’s Emma Lavigne cherry-picking from exhibits, and conversations with guests from Yvon Lambert to Caroline Bourgeois, curator of the upcoming Bourse de Commerce.
>fiac.viewingrooms.com

Instant Warhol – From Tuesday, Galerie Italien hosts the biggest ever show of Warhol's photographs in a French private gallery. Instantanés splits the icon's works into themes, from the Polaroids and photobooth shots to nude series ‘Sex Parts & Torsos’ and the (literally) ‘stitched photographs’, which starred in his final exhibition. Watch the gallery’s Insta for more gems including videos with André Leon Talley etc.
>@galerieitalienne

Making News

Rombaut Expands his Footprint – A first boutique for the vegan, unisex and sustainable footwear brand, founded in 2013 by the Belgian-born Mats Rombaut. All aluminium walls and concrete floors, it's a suitably minimal echo to his futuristic footwear made of plant-based materials, recycled fibres and artificial leather. You’ll also find his recycled polyester clothing line, plus some art, reflecting the HQ’s dual gallery remit. >rombautparis.com

Hermès Sèvres Relaunch – The luxe icon will unveil its refurbished Left Bank HQ next Friday. If the project is still under wraps, expect an epic new fresco telling the Hermès story by local artist Matthieu Cossé. And no doubt prominent place given to H24, the brand’s first men’s fragrance in 15 years. Featuring sclarene – the synthetic ‘molecule of the future’ – it was inspired by the aroma of hot irons on fabric in the Hermès workshops. >hermes.com