Yoshitomo Nara, Warhol and Basquiat shape the week ahead
From a third Stella McCartney collaboration rooted in rock and roll to Piaget's Warhol limited edition, the art world moves between fashion, watchmaking and cinema.
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Yoshitomo Nara’s playful characters return to Stella McCartney’s design universe for a third collaboration, this one a rock and roll capsule that brings his whimsical figures into ready to wear, handbags, shoes and accessories. The partnership, rooted in shared irreverence and colour, channels the ease of performers and the innocence of his drawing practice into garments that sit comfortably between art and wardrobe.
Piaget has drawn on Andy Warhol’s 1978 Camouflage portraits for a 2026 limited edition watch, translating the artist’s layered patterning and electric palette into the dial and bezel. The collection follows Piaget’s 2025 Collage timepiece, continuing a dialogue between fine watchmaking and visual art that treats the wrist as a canvas for artistic vision.
In film, Kid Cudi brings Jean Michel Basquiat to the screen with a biopic that honours the painter’s restless energy and the New York moment that shaped him. The project sits alongside continued interest in Yayoi Kusama’s infinities and David Hockney’s California light, as the market and the cultural conversation spiral between mediums: fashion absorbs painting, watchmaking becomes portraiture, and cinema reclaims the lives of artists who changed what is possible on canvas.
Imagery courtesy of Maddox Gallery (@maddoxgallery).
