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Grimes is making music again. After the tabloid era, the Elon custody saga, and a questionable detour into AI, she’s back in the studio. She’s also speaking with the kind of candor that made us pay attention in the first place.

Demna staged his first major Gucci exhibition. Gucci Memoria takes over Milan’s Chiostri di San Simpliciano with tapestries spanning 105 years of the house, a Gucci vending machine at the entrance, and a flower garden courtesy of Flora in the courtyard. It’s part retrospective, part theme park, and pure Demna.

IKEA launched a playful new collection called PS 2026. Pieces include a bench/rocking chair hybrid, a three-in-one floor lamp, and an inflatable chair. No one else is doing mass market, maximalist ambition quite like this.

Bottega Veneta gets into the arts with a series fittingly called “Bottega Veneta for the Arts.” Creative director Louise Trotter’s first project is with longtime photographer Peter Fraser. Just about every fashion brand has an art program now, but this one’s a perfect fit.

Y’s Yohji Yamamoto designed new Aesop uniforms for the brand’s unveiling of their first-ever lamp at Milan Design Week. Timeless, oversized black workwear jackets, designed by a true master and built to be worn while explaining hand soap.

David Zaslav is leaving Warner Bros. with a $500 million exit package as part of the Paramount merger. He oversaw $4 billion at the box office in 2025 alone while shelving movies for tax write-offs, gutting TCM, and overseeing thousands of layoffs. Whether he saved the studio or strip-mined it depends on who you ask. Either way, he got paid.