Left: Buttery rosemary-green calfskin leather and embossed floral details inspired by genre-defying artist and writer Joe Brainard transform Loewe’s signature Puzzle bag, known for its precisely crafted cuboid shape. Right: Painter Alex Katz brings a lush meadow of flowers to life with vibrant hues and expressive gestures in his work Pansies (1967), rendering the simple subject in his signature flat style.

Left: A year before Judy Chicago began working on her seminal installation The Dinner Party, the artist made abstract canvases such as Virginia Woolf from the Reincarnation Triptych (1973), both of which celebrate women’s self-expression. Right: Bringing the dark allure of fairy tales to the virtual runway, Dior’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, filled the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles with romantic gowns and timeless silhouettes for the house’s fall 2021 ready-to-wear video presentation.

Left: Conceived by New Orleans designer Julie Neill, Visual Comfort’s Talia large linear chandelier unites swirled glass orbs in
a whimsical cloudlike cluster. Opposite: After building otherworldly installations with white balloons in serene natural settings, Charles Pétillon captures his creations in surreal photographs such as Mutations 2 (2014, detail).

Left: An explosive array of 374 yellow and white diamonds creates a glittering starburst in this necklace from Graff’s Tribal collection. Right: The Sun, a 1914–16 mural painted by Expressionist Edvard Munch, serves as a radiant stage backdrop in the University of Oslo’s auditorium.