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‘I Only Wear CHANEL No. 5’

28 May 2026 • Kimberly • Leave a Comment

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A private preview of "Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon" at the Academy Museum with CHANEL. As a martinent for rules, I usually get the dress code right—but I may have pulled a Bhavitha-Mandava-at-the-Met last night (unintentionally, unfortunately). I should've known better than to show up for a ... Read More

Obsessively Curated + Unapologetically Commercial

31 March 2026 • Kimberly • Leave a Comment

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Few commerce platforms can editorialize the commercial, and even fewer can successfully transmute a digital space into one that exists in the real world. More often than not, the URL to IRL experience is lacking somewhere (poor planning, paucity of imagination, disconnect between the brand and its ... Read More

“How Did That All Get Turned Upside Down?”

3 March 2026 • Kimberly • Leave a Comment

robert colescott - the upside down jesus + politics of survival - hauser + wirth exhibit

I had planned on sharing my little journal entries recapping L.A. Art Week favorites, but since Friday's battle of AI ethics in surveillance and war—followed by an attack on an Iranian girls' school—I simply couldn't. Instead, I'm sharing just one piece from the Eileen Norton collection (on ... Read More

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