Led by Dan Thawley and Matthieu Pinet, Matter and Shape is set to inject fresh energy into Paris’s art andis a new design salon debuting among the unmissable vibrations of Paris Fashion Week. Armed with an agenda to reinvigorate and reimagine the slightly weary energy of the traditional art or design fair, thealumnus Thawley brings with him a keen curatorial eye and a fashion-world black book.
Partnering with the likes of Jil Sander on a talks series, while cultivating a superlative line-up of exhibitors as the result of his friendships with iconic aesthetes, Thawley’s fresh foray into the gate-kept world of design fairs hopes to democratise this corner of the creative landscape.
Below, see our guide to what to see at Matter and Shape, which opens at the Tuileries Gardens on March 1.Defined by his clear-sighted curation and rich spacial poetry, Rick Owens’ signature minimalism has become the calling card of those with a slightly gothic bent, and those with nothing or everything to prove when it comes to personal style.