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June 9, 2026·Edition 28

Is crying the next big look?

Internet Microdoses

Gucci is the first luxury house to title-sponsor an F1 team. From 2027, Alpine will race as Gucci Racing Alpine Formula One Team, swapping its blue-and-pink livery for Gucci's red, green, black and gold. Sure, LVMH sponsors the championship and Louis Vuitton presents the trophy, but now Gucci's got a car.

Raymond Pettibon’s iconic album art hits the gallery. Nervous Breakdown at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen runs through September with 200+ covers from the Stefan Thull collection — Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and more — plus a reprinted 1985 Kim Gordon essay from Artforum.

Everlane’s founder starts a new brand. Days after L Catterton sold the brand to Shein for $100 million, Michael Preysman started a new clothing venture called Still Radical. So far it lives up to its name, promising no venture capital or private equity. But can it outshine Shein?

Martin Parr gets his own skate decks. The Skateroom — the Brussels brand that does artist editions with Basquiat, Koons, and Matisse — just released a Parr collection, one of the last he approved before his death in December at 73. He spent fifty years photographing everyday people, who will now have a second life at the skate park.

Romain Gavras is directing the Louvre heist movie. The hit job took eight minutes last October; seven months and several arrests later, none of the eight crown jewels have come back. And now we have to wait ‘til 2028 for the movie.

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Aesthetic Study

Trompe l'Oeil

When Gerrit Dou painted a curtain in 17th-century Leiden, the goal was for the viewer to try to pull it aside. Trompe l’oeil was the ultimate painterly skill, where a painter’s genius was measured by how easily they could make you confused. Schiaparelli brought the same logic to fashion in 1927 with a knitted bow that looked tied at the chest. For decades the trick held — Gaultier’s printed torsos, Galliano’s layered denim at Dior, Louis Vuitton’s ankle boot hand-painted to look like pumps with a white sock. Deception as craft.

But modern-day trompe l’oeil has become traître l’oeil, or betray the eye. Instead of trying to fool you, the illusion immediately sabotages itself. Loewe sent out a pixelated polo that looked yanked from a loading screen. Prada knitted fake cardigans onto shirts, then Miuccia told the press: “We played with fake, not with fiction.” Acne stamped keychains onto denim. Ottolinger printed a full shirt-and-tie onto a bodysuit. In the era of AI, the most comforting illusion is the one that proudly admits it is a lie.

  • Trace a century of fashion illusion
  • Follow trompe l’oeil from the ’20s to now
  • Gerrit Dou’s virtuosity in Dutch collections
  • Menswear’s current surrealist spin
Cover of Trompe l'Oeil collection
Trompe l'OeilBy @sequencebycosmos
An image uploaded on Jun 09, 2026.
An image uploaded on Jun 09, 2026.
An image uploaded on Jun 09, 2026.

June 9, 2026·Interview

Mary Royall Wilgis

The Brooklyn painter who turns "light foraging" into color-dense canvases, tracking how a window catches sun at a precise hour.

Mary Royall Wilgis
Mary Royall Wilgis

A moment with

Mary Royall Wilgis

The Brooklyn painter who turns "light foraging" into color-dense canvases, tracking how a window catches sun at a precise hour.

Mary Royall Wilgis is a Brooklyn-based painter who grew up in the marshes of South Carolina. Hours on the water and in the trees taught her to watch light the way most people listen to music. She calls it “light foraging” — tracking how a window catches sun at a precise hour, translating the passage of time onto color-dense canvases. She’s currently preparing a show with Harsh Collective at the Hamptons Art Fair from July 9 to 12.

What book have you gifted most?

Devotions by Mary Oliver

What's something you bought under $100 that changed your life?

My keychain tape measure. It's AMAZING.

Where do you go to find peace?

Kayaking on the South Carolina marsh with my dad and brother.

Who is your forever inspo?

James Turrell. That man's writing on light changed my life: "Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation."

What's the best investment (money, time, habit) you've made?

Journals. I have used the exact same type of black, lined, Moleskine notebook since college. I have written through heartbreak, coming out, quitting my job, becoming an artist, family dynamics, health problems, and love.

Write us a fortune cookie message.

Be a good neighbor.

Follow Mary on Instagram and Cosmos.

Object Love

Tennis Ball Chair

Tennis Ball Chair

Hugh Hayden’s Tennis Ball Chair binds roughly 300 recycled tennis balls into a hexagonal grid with non-stretch polyester cord. Made around 2008 as part of his FUNATURE series, Hayden — a Dallas-born, Cornell-trained architect turned sculptor — sourced used balls from New York tennis clubs to keep them out of landfills. Packed tight, they become dense, bouncy upholstery that is as funny as it is practical. Better yet, it’s proof that green design doesn’t have to look so green.

Make it “optic yellow” instead. After all, the tennis ball is shorthand for an entire aesthetic now: country clubs and concrete courts, ALD lookbooks and Challengers screenshots, Sunday morning rallies in public parks. Over 300 million get manufactured every year. Almost none biodegrade. They lose their bounce in hours and end up in hoppers, dog parks, garage buckets. Hayden’s chair takes the most disposable thing in the game and makes it worth sitting with — whether you’re playing or just watching.

Quick Hits

  • Bottega Veneta made an AirPods case on a strap.
  • Levi’s reissued their 1870s jeans for $600.
  • Charli XCX announces Music, Fashion, Film album.
  • The 2028 Olympics swapped equestrian for Ninja Warrior.
  • Campeggi’s bed-in-a-box unfolds into a guest room.

Kaboom,

Tania ♡