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There's something almost poetic about Nicolas Ghesquière choosing the Frick Collection for this one. A Gilded Age mansion filled with Rembrandts and Vermeers , and then, walking through it, the unmistakable scrawl of Keith Haring on a Louis Vuitton trunk from 1984. That trunk is where it all started. Haring bought it, took a marker to it, and left his signature crawling baby and dancing figures all over the canvas. Louis Vuitton acquired it years later, quietly filed it in t

There’s a certain kind of fashion that tries very hard to look effortless. And then there’s R13, a brand that actually is. Founded in New York by Chris Leba, R13 doesn’t operate like a traditional luxury house. It doesn’t chase trends, it doesn’t rely on spectacle for validation, and it certainly doesn’t polish its edges to please the mainstream. Instead, it leans into something rarer: authenticity with attitude. If most luxury brands are about aspiration, R13 is about identi