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  • Julianne Moore Has Messika to Thank for Her First Trip to Miami Maxine Wally
    Courtesy of MessikaOn April 23, 2026, Julianne Moore traveled to Miami for the first time in her life.You’d think that Moore’s vocation—ruling the silver screen with acclaimed films like May December, The Big Lebowski, and Still Alice for over 40 years—would have brought her to The Magic City at some point. But no, the actress explained on a recent afternoon: “I worked in Jupiter, Florida, a long time ago,” she said, sitting on a white couch in the Miami EDITION Hotel, wearing an all-white jumps
     

Julianne Moore Has Messika to Thank for Her First Trip to Miami

1 May 2026 at 17:13
Courtesy of Messika

On April 23, 2026, Julianne Moore traveled to Miami for the first time in her life.

You’d think that Moore’s vocation—ruling the silver screen with acclaimed films like May December, The Big Lebowski, and Still Alice for over 40 years—would have brought her to The Magic City at some point. But no, the actress explained on a recent afternoon: “I worked in Jupiter, Florida, a long time ago,” she said, sitting on a white couch in the Miami EDITION Hotel, wearing an all-white jumpsuit. “I’ve worked in Hollywood, Florida. I’ve been to Palm Beach a million times, but I’ve only been to the Miami airport.”

The cause for the occasion was her involvement in the French jewelry brand Messika’s latest release. To celebrate the launch of Moderniste—a collection of geometric rings, bracelets, and earrings done in gold with modern diamond accents, for which Moore is the corresponding campaign face—she brought daughter Liv Freundlich down to Miami for a star-studded cocktail party with the Messika family. Founder and creative director Valérie Messika along with her husband, Jean-Baptiste Sassine who helms the company’s business development side were there to welcome more. (Their two children were in attendance, as well.) Helena Christensen, Candice Swanepoel, Gunna—who gamely posed for photos with crushes of adoring fans—and more stars came to the soirée, held at Chauteau ZZ’s restaurant in Brickell.

From left: Valérie Messika, Helena Christensen, Julianne Moore, and Liv Freundlich. | Courtesy of Messika

“I love the work she’s doing,” Moore said of Valérie, noting that the first time she wore a Messika piece was “oddly, actually, in the [2018] movie Gloria Bell.”

“I love the family aspect of the company,” she added. “I like that it’s small and it’s personal. Sometimes with big companies, you feel the corporation and you don’t feel the people. In this case, I was touched by how open the communication was, how deep the collaboration. I felt like it was coming from human beings.”

For her part, Valérie regards the latest collection as “a new chapter in my creative journey. Having Julianne Moore with us to embody this spirit makes this moment even more meaningful.” This likely won’t be the last time Moore makes a trip to Miami (especially since Messika has a real presence in the beach town, including a boutique in Aventura). Her plans for the next expedition? “I’d love to go to Little Havana,” she said.

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  • Tilda Swinton and Dom Perignon Turn Dressing Into Performance Art in Bilbao Maxine Wally
    Solange Knowles, Tilda Swinton, and Alexa Chung. Photograph by GettyOn the evening of June 4, Tilda Swinton stood barefoot on a stage inside the Guggenheim Bilbao in complete silence for nearly 35 minutes. Wordlessly, she tried on various muslin garments handed to her by assistants nearby—then she’d strike a pose, her elegant and long limbs making shapes against the angular Spanish museum. It was all part of a performance artwork she’d created with fashion historian Olivier Saillard called “Hous
     

Tilda Swinton and Dom Perignon Turn Dressing Into Performance Art in Bilbao

8 June 2026 at 21:05
Solange Knowles, Tilda Swinton, and Alexa Chung. Photograph by Getty

On the evening of June 4, Tilda Swinton stood barefoot on a stage inside the Guggenheim Bilbao in complete silence for nearly 35 minutes. Wordlessly, she tried on various muslin garments handed to her by assistants nearby—then she’d strike a pose, her elegant and long limbs making shapes against the angular Spanish museum. It was all part of a performance artwork she’d created with fashion historian Olivier Saillard called “House of Gestures,” inspired, in part, by the champagne brand Dom Pérignon. The work was unveiled during the label’s yearly Révélations event—a celebration of the arts staged in far-flung locales. For 2026, the location was Bilbao: the coastal town, which became home to the Frank Gehry-designed museum in 1997, has a rich gastronomic history and a robust permanent collection at the Guggenheim, where visitors around the world come to see artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Richard Serra, and many more.

Thursday night not only marked Swinton’s debut, it was also the celebration for the official launch of four new vintages, a variety of champagne that takes about 20 years to develop. Notably, the Vintage 2018 is chef de cave (“cellar master”) Vincent Chaperon’s first vintage since he started working at Dom Pérignon eight years ago. Of course, Chaperon was on hand in Bilbao to celebrate, as was Solange Knowles, Alexa Chung, and Heated Rivalry actor François Arnaud. They were in the audience watching Swinton’s piece, and attended the subsequent dinner, when the main hall in the Guggenheim was transformed into the chicest spot in the Basque Country (each course was, naturally, paired with one of the new vintages). Knowles and Swinton sat next to each other at the table, which snaked around in loops.

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Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard | Getty

“She’s a renaissance person,” Chaperon told W of tapping Swinton to participate in Révélations—it was actually her second time doing so, having performed a poem at the 2025 event held in London. This time around, “the base of our discussion really appeared in the performance: this notion of place,” Chaperon explained. “The body of Tilda has always been a place—all of her art is based on her body. We thought there was a connection between what she’s doing and the vintages, which are [an example of] permanent reinvention.”

Jacques Giraco, Alexa Chung, and Vincent Chaperon. | Getty Images for Dom Pérignon
Solange Knowles takes in Tilda Swinton’s performance. | Getty

The actor even visited the company’s vineyard and abbey in Épernay, France, in 2025—a fantastic year, climatically speaking, said Chaperon. There were “perfect conditions of sun, exposure, and temperature,” which is key for the next batch of vintages that’ll be released in the next eight-or-so years. Each season influences what will happen to future grapes. “This is the unique situation which we are in—present is past, but it is future at the same time,” he added.

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  • Lola Leon Talks 'T Shirt', Her Most Personal Song and Music Video Yet Maxine Wally
    Photograph by Eric Yue“I can’t even tell you how important community is to me,” Lourdes “Lola” Leon says on a recent morning. “I would’ve been dead in a ditch if it wasn’t for my friends. Not to be dramatic, but that’s how it feels.”No one—not even Leon, whose starry life as a musician and model began in 1996, when her mother, Madonna, birthed her—is immune to the scars a heartbreak leaves. But she also knows that a low point in life can become a source of inspiration. That’s the idea behind the
     

Lola Leon Talks 'T Shirt', Her Most Personal Song and Music Video Yet

28 May 2026 at 20:18
Photograph by Eric Yue

“I can’t even tell you how important community is to me,” Lourdes “Lola” Leon says on a recent morning. “I would’ve been dead in a ditch if it wasn’t for my friends. Not to be dramatic, but that’s how it feels.”

No one—not even Leon, whose starry life as a musician and model began in 1996, when her mother, Madonna, birthed her—is immune to the scars a heartbreak leaves. But she also knows that a low point in life can become a source of inspiration. That’s the idea behind the Los Angeles-born, New York City-based artist’s latest single, “T Shirt,” which she released with a deeply personal and pared-back music video directed by cinematographer Eric Yue on May 27. The song, as Leon describes it, is “pretty straightforward. It’s nothing too metaphorical: you’re in the throes of an unhealthy love. And as a young person, I think we try to rationalize horrible things that happen, people’s shitty behavior.” The antidote to that kind of hurt, Leon has found, is in the people who love you most, those who have stuck around. As such, her close friends (like Sammy, her longtime producer who made “T Shirt” with Sega Bodega) and family members, including her paternal grandmother, make cameos in the video. “I wanted to capture the core of who I am,” Leon says of the concept. “And not in a way where it felt so put on. This is really my life.”

Photograph by Eric Yue

After putting out her debut EP in 2022, Go, under the moniker Lolahol, Leon says she was “struggling with my visual identity. I was in such a transitional period that I didn’t feel rooted in anything.” Not to mention, she was in “such a wrong relationship for so many reasons,” she says. “But I was trying to make it seem all right. I was poisoning myself, drinking so much. I remember my friends looking at me like, ‘What are you doing?’ I was so reliant on certain people around me. I was always calling my grandmother and crying.”

Leon explains that she knew she would heal, “in the back of my mind. There’s a quote in the song: ‘My heart will know, my head will follow.’ That was like a mantra I repeated to make myself not literally become fully 5150.” That feeling of hopefulness pervades the track and the video, which feels more personal than anything Leon has put out in the past. “When I first put out music, I was so scared, literally shaking,” she recalls. “At first, you’ve got to keep this fierce, cunt wall up in front of you, just in case you get hurt. But now I’m at a place where I feel comfortable to an extent sharing that part of myself.”

Photograph by Eric Yue

Leon, who turns thirty in the fall, says she’ll be releasing more music later this year under her own name, Lola Leon; the material will sound “introspective,” she explains, like “T Shirt.”

“People keep saying, ‘This is a new era, this is a new era’—I don’t know where that came from!” she adds with a laugh. “It’s more just about embracing my roots and tapping back in with people who’ve watched me grow over the years. I’m still Lola! Just no more ’hol’—we’re dropping the ’hol.’”

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  • Teyana Taylor, Alex Consani & More Talk Knicks Fever at Chanel’s Tribeca Artists Dinner Maxine Wally
    A swanky Chanel party in New York City might be the last place you’d expect to see the Knicks game displayed on giant television screens. But on Monday, June 8, the 19th annual Tribeca Festival Artists Dinner happened to take place on the same evening the NBA team was playing Game 3 in the championship series. Since their historic winning streak has united New Yorkers in ways unprecedented, the French label decided to lean all the way into Knicks mania. Ayo Edebiri, Alex Consani, Teyana Taylor,
     

Teyana Taylor, Alex Consani & More Talk Knicks Fever at Chanel’s Tribeca Artists Dinner

9 June 2026 at 16:07

A swanky Chanel party in New York City might be the last place you’d expect to see the Knicks game displayed on giant television screens. But on Monday, June 8, the 19th annual Tribeca Festival Artists Dinner happened to take place on the same evening the NBA team was playing Game 3 in the championship series. Since their historic winning streak has united New Yorkers in ways unprecedented, the French label decided to lean all the way into Knicks mania.

Ayo Edebiri, Alex Consani, Teyana Taylor, Keke Palmer, Sarah Pidgeon, Tribeca Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, Paloma Elsesser, and many more stars attended the event, which celebrates artists who have donated original works to the winning filmmakers at the festival (participants like Carrie Mae Weems and Hank Willis Thomas were also in attendance). It was a glorious mix of worlds: amid all the fresh-off-the-runway fashion and candlelit clusters of pink peonies lining the tables at the Tribeca Grill were orange and blue (instead of classic black and white) cookies that waiters passed around on silver trays. The napkins were embroidered with orange and blue double C’s, and Knicks caps were also on offer.

“I’m quite disappointed they didn’t ask me to be on the team this year,” Consani said to W, noting to New York Knicks coach Mike Brown that she is available and “six-foot-four, right now. But I’m a fan, I’ve definitely watched games on set.”

Paloma Elsesser and Alex Consani | Courtesy of Chanel
Grace Gummer and Sarah Pidgeon | Courtesy of Chanel
Ayo Edebiri | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie

Those TVs, by the way, weren’t just for showing the match—Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee, and more sent video messages to Jane Rosenthal, congratulating her on 25 years of heading up the Tribeca Festival. “Jane and I have worked together closely for 37 years,” De Niro said in a speech during the meal. “We tease that she’s my work wife, except there’s no messy prenup.”

Sofia Coppola, Grace Gummer, Christy Turlington, and Cole Escola circled the room in Matthieu Blazy’s coveted takes on the house’s tweed skirt suits and little black dresses. Molly Gordon wore an oversized leather Knicks jacket to show her team spirit while Palmer arrived in a playful beaded dog-print set from Blazy’s debut Métiers d'art collection featuring the face of his own dog in the mix. “Who doesn’t love dogs?” Palmer asked gleefully.

Cole Escola | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Christy Turlington | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg | Courtesy of Chanel
Sofia Coppola | Courtesy of Chanel
Keke Palmer | Photograph by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet

For her part, Teyana Taylor actually had tickets to the game and jetted straight to Madison Square Garden after a quick bite at the dinner party. Her fellow Harlem native, A$AP Rocky, recently told reporters he wasn’t just a Knicks fan, he himself was a Knick. Did Taylor agree? “Yes! When you’re a New Yorker, how we speak about us being New Yorkers, it’s always gonna be cocky. And we don’t regret it!”

Of course, it wouldn’t be a party without some Polaroids. Here, an exclusive set by photographer Emma Beiles Howie.

Alex Consani | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Anok Yai | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Chase Sui Wonders | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Grace Gummer | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Paloma Elsesser | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Sarah Pidgeon | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Keke Palmer | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Rashida Jones | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Camila Morrone | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Owen Thiele | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Teyana Taylor | Photo by Emma Beiles Howie
Whitney Peak | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
Inde Navarrette | Photograph by Emma Beiles Howie
W Editor in Chief Sara Moonves and Sofia Coppola | Inde Navarrette
Molly Gordon | Photo by Emma Beiles Howie
Karen Elson | Photo by Emma Beiles Howie
Whoopi Goldberg | Photo by Emma Beiles Howie
Robert De Niro | Photo by Emma Beiles Howie
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