There’s a great article in Art + Auction on the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and his newly launched Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, a traveling contemporary-art show that he conceived as a 50th-anniversary tribute to the Chanel handbag and whose exhibition space he commissioned the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Zaha Hadid to design.

The Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, designed by Zaha Hadid. Image: architecturelist.com

Inside the pavilion. Image: artinfo.com

Read the full article HERE

In other fashion news, we saw the new documentary on the Italian couture master Valentino, last night at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The designer Valentino Garavani. Image: blog.nj.com/fashiontoday

It was spectacular, and it’s playing twice more this week. Buy tickets HERE.

Some looks by Valentino. Image: gracemagazine.files.wordpress.com

After the screening, Valentino revealed - for the first time in public - that, despite his recent retirement, he will continue to design costumes for theatre and opera. A wonderful thing.