Each week, Alexa breaks down the hottest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant launches, and celebrity-studded cultural events in NYC. It's our curated guide to the best things to see, shop, taste, and experience in the city.
What's on our luxury list this week? Robert Downey Jr. on Broadway, a huge new Arc'teryx store in SoHo, and a social sauna opening at Flatiron.
Arc'Teryx Equipment has opened a two-level store spanning more than 14,000 square feet at 580 Broadway. It's the Canadian brand's largest retail space to date, and features a Rebard Service Center offering a full range of services from full zipper replacement to hardshell repaneling, as well as light repairs, washing and waterproofing of used gear. The location also marks the start of Rebard Shopping, with a selection of refurbished pre-owned items for sale, as well as the A-Frame Café, serving Arc'Tonics, specialty coffees and teas, the Garuka Bar and Shar Trail Mix. arcteryx.com
“Ilit Azoulay: My Stuff” opens today at the Jewish Museum. It is the first U.S. solo museum exhibition dedicated to the work of interdisciplinary artist Ilit Azoulay (Israeli, born 1972; lives and works in Berlin), and includes works from 2010 to the present. One new work, Unity Totem (2024), “Minutes[ed] From the Jewish Museum's collection of ritual objects such as Torah finials and amulets. Mostly made by Jewish communities across the Arab world, including the artist's family homeland of Morocco, the objects in the photographs hang from a green cap that smokes like a cone of incense, spinning as they channel new spiritual energy outward into the world.” Until January 5, Jewish Museumorg
“Good writers borrow. Great writers steal,” that's the tag line of “McNeil,” a new play written by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar and starring Robert Downey Jr. He plays Jacob McNeil, considered one of the greatest writers of his generation and an “evergreen candidate” (but never a winner) of the Nobel Prize in literature. He also has a new novel, an estranged son, an “old axe and an unhealthy fascination with AI.” Directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, “McNeil” is at the Beaumont Theatre through Nov. 24. McNeilBroadway.com
Next week marks the much-anticipated opening of “Africa's Fashion Diaspora” at the Museum at FIT (MFIT). The exhibition “explores the role of fashion in shaping international black diasporic cultures…[and] is the first to examine fashion as a mode of cross-diasporic cultural production.” 60 fashions, including clothing and accessories, will be on display, created by Black designers from Africa, Europe, North and South America, and the Caribbean. They include names many will recognize — Patrick Kelly, Wales Bonner, Aurora James for Brother Vellies, Telfar and Olivier Rousteing for Balmain — and many others, placed in dialogue with each other. The exhibition is organized by Elizabeth Way, Associate Curator of Costume at The Museum at FIT, and is accompanied by a multi-authored book edited by Way and published by Yale University Press. On view through December 29. FitNYC.edu.
Toronto-based Othership has opened its first U.S. outpost at Flatiron. Called a “social sauna and ice bath experience,” it features what they call a “performance sauna,” a dedicated room for ice baths, and a tea lounge around a fireplace. There are a variety of classes available (they fall into three categories (up, down, and around) for energy, relaxation, or emotional connection), as well as evening social events. Starting prices start at $64 for a drop-in session, with class passes ranging from $33 to $67, and membership options starting at $51 per month. otherness.We
