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09-03-2025
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Here's what you missed: New apartments, new restaurants and more
Here's a roundup of our top stories from the past week. With a subscription to the Pensacola News Journal, you will receive full access to the work done by our journalists and photographers as they head out every day to help inform and explain the important issues affecting your community. Pensacola prides itself on its historic homes and preservation efforts, but the fate of a Victorian-era Old East Hill is raising questions about whether rules meant to stop the demolition of historic buildings are coming too late. The home at 520 N. Sixth Ave. is slated to be demolished. The homebuilding company aDoor Properties is seeking a demolition permit to build two new homes in its place, but some residents of the Old East Hill neighborhood are calling for the home to be saved. The home was built in about 1892 and is the only local example of a Victorian architecture style known as Second Empire, a type of Victorian style that is common in the Northeast and Midwest, but rare in the South, according to the Old East Hill Preservation District's architecture guide. Full story: A 133-year-old Old East Hill Home faces demolition after years of neglect A young Milton man and his family are speaking out after he was allegedly manhandled by a Santa Rosa Sheriff's deputy after walking his brother home from the bus stop in an incident captured on video by their neighbors. Zander Cash, 20, walks his 11-year-old brother home from the bus stop in their Milton neighborhood every afternoon. It's part of their daily routine, like checking the mail. Only on Wednesday, Jan. 29, the Cash family says what started out as a normal day took a terrifying turn. Zander said he opened the door to a Santa Rosa Sheriff's Deputy telling him to step outside. He asked why, but the officer didn't say, and Zander said they went on like that a couple more times when the deputy pulled him out of the house. Full story: Milton family wants answers after Santa Rosa deputy snatched son from home in viral video Work is beginning on a new 282-unit luxury apartment development on a long-vacant piece of downtown Pensacola real estate. Crest Residential is beginning work to build The Romero on the western half of the former ECUA downtown sewage treatment property, once known as "Old Stinky,' and is the first project that will begin construction under the West Main Master Plan. The 282-unit development will have 10 different floor plans with units that range from 612 to 1,393 square feet and one, two or three bedrooms, according to information provided by Crest Residential, a developer based in Birmingham, Alabama. Full story: New luxury apartments coming to downtown Pensacola at former ECUA sewer treatment plant Pensacola's Blake Doyle Skatepark and From the Ground Up Community Garden have a tasty new neighbor moving in with plans to open this March. What was once the neighborhood's historical Malamo Brothers corner grocery store at 524 N. Hayne St. will soon become a café, restaurant and event space – a project spearheaded by Casey Jones, Reservoir's owner and operator and a member of the Pensacola City Council. 'I think back to when I was a kid and I was skating around downtown, and basically Subway was the only place to go get food. But we're going to have a whole section of our menu where those younger kids, or young adults, that maybe don't want to spend a lot of money on lunch, but they still want to be able to grab something convenient,' Jones said. 'We'll have a whole section of the menu of lower priced items that are kind of quick to grab and get going.' Keep reading: New restaurant opening soon near Pensacola's Blake Doyle Skatepark. Here's what's coming. Pensacola Beach restaurant Felix's Restaurant & Oyster Bar has permanently closed its doors, according to the restaurant's social media Monday evening. Pensacola Beach's Felix's restaurant was the first Florida location for the Louisiana-based restaurant group and opened in the fall of 2021, replacing the former Hemingway's Island Grill at 400 Quietwater Beach Road, Suite 16. "This decision was not an easy one, and we are immensely grateful for the support and love we have received from the Santa Rosa Island community over the last several years," Felix's statement read. "While we bid farewell to our Pensacola Beach location, we remain committed to serving our patrons at our other cherished establishments. Felix's will continue to uphold the legacy of exceptional seafood and unparalleled hospitality at our French Quarter, Lakefront and Gulfport locations." Keep reading: Felix's Restaurant & Oyster Bar permanently closes Pensacola Beach location This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Pensacola news stories: New apartments, new restaurants
Washington Post
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Haute couture is in the spotlight at the Louvre
PARIS — The world's most visited art museum, the Louvre, is making history with its first exhibition on fashion since its creation 232 years ago. On Friday, 'Louvre Couture – Art and Fashion: Statement Pieces' opened with more than 100 couture pieces from over 45 of the world's top fashion houses, including Chanel, Hermès, Christian Dior, Jonathan Anderson, Iris van Herpen and Balenciaga. With this exhibition, Olivier Gabet, director of the Louvre Museum's Department of Decorative Arts, invites visitors to take a fresh look at its collections through the lens of contemporary haute couture designers, with a whirlwind tour through Byzantium, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Second Empire. 'Museums house knowledge but also enjoyment and delight,' Gabet said. Gabet's lighthearted curation places the spotlight on the convergence of haute couture and art. 'The Louvre is a giant mood board, an inexhaustible source of reference and inspiration,' Gabet said. 'As Paul Cézanne once said, 'The Louvre is the book from which we learn to read.'' With 8.7 million visitors in 2024, (averaging a colossal 30,000 per day), the Louvre doesn't need more visitors, but new ones. 'Fashion is very accessible, with no preconceptions. We all wear clothes; we all understand the meaning of a coat or a dress. We're using this accessibility to lead visitors towards other works,' Gabet continued. 'This is the idea behind the mood board, because art is present in couture.' This dialogue between masterpieces of contemporary couture and masterpieces of antiquity offers the visitor a fresh perspective. The seed for the exhibition was sown as long ago as 2009, when Pierre Bergé auctioned the collection of 733 art masterpieces that he and Yves Saint Laurent had jointly amassed over their 40 years together. 'As a museum curator, my background is in history and decorative arts, not fashion, but the more I delved into Yves Saint Laurent's biography, the more I realized how much he had in common with Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeanne Lanvin and Elsa Schiaparelli. They all shared an intense relationship with art and collecting. At that point, the societal impact of fashion began to intrigue me,' Gabet said. Sometimes a designer's inspiration is evoked subtly: Italian Renaissance for Christian Dior's Maria Grazia Chiuri (a frequent Louvre visitor), suits of armor for Demna at Balenciaga, reliquary busts for Daniel Roseberry for Schiaparelli, Palissy ware for Matthieu Blazy and Alexander McQueen, medieval tapestry for Dries Van Noten, and its craftsmanship for Christian Louboutin. For others, it's more literal. Lagerfeld's obsession with the 18th century is well documented. For his last Chanel haute couture collection in 2019 — the year of his death — he attached a photo of Mathieu Criaerd's blue and white lacquered chest of drawers to his sketch with indications to Maison Lesage to reproduce it in embroidery on the jacket. 'This was a wonderful find from Chanel's archives!' Gabet said. 'It illustrates what I call the genealogy of taste, and this is exactly what we're trying to illustrate through this exhibition.' In the exhibit, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac's Bambi tapestry mini skirt tailleur, accessorized with a fake-fur antler headdress from his 'Go! Go! Diva' fall-winter 2010 collection, is displayed against the deer-hunting backdrop of 'Le Mois d'Août,' one of a dozen medieval tapestries from 1528. 'Having the full suite of twelve 16th-century tapestries is rarissime,' Gabet said. That is the beauty of the Louvre, when a six-meter-wide piece of art is on display, you have the room to focus on it, without being distracted by other objects placed too closely. That's the signature of the Louvre.' 'There's nothing more beautiful than the encounter between a source of antiquity and a futuristic conduit,' de Castelbajac said. 'That's how I create, how I re-create.' In the exhibition, Roseberry's black wool suit worn with a hand-crafted patinated brass mask for Schiaparelli, Jonathan Anderson's sky-blue metal-studded top with copper wings, and Iris van Herpen's 3D Cathedral dress in laser-cut copper stand shoulder to shoulder before a tapestry paying homage to Dante. 'Museums are soothing, restful places,' said Van Noten, who has three pieces in the exhibition. 'One is often surrounded by absolute beauty, sorely needed in today's world.' Van Noten grew up in Antwerp, Belgium, where members of his family were drapers. His men's overcoat is printed with an adaptation of a 17th-century Flemish tapestry depicting Moses being rescued from the waters. It stands in front of a silk and wool tapestry from the Manufacture des Gobelins dated 1689. The pièce de resistance that encapsulates 'Louvre Couture's' concept is the set that unites two black silk-velvet ceremonial robes of the Order of the Holy Spirit, lavishly embroidered with real gold and silver, which are the only garments in the Louvre's collections. The order was established by King Henri III in the 16th century and then abolished by King Louis Philippe in 1830, who returned the objects to the Louvre. The robes are surrounded by three gold and black contemporary creations by Roseberry for Schiaparelli, Olivier Rousteing for Balmain, and Dolce & Gabbana's Alta Sartoria. The plaque of the order was a prestigious honor bestowed upon members of the French nobility. The star-shaped design was embellished with diamonds and the fleur-de-lis emblem of the French monarchy. In the centerpiece of this display is the version Lagerfeld created for Chanel in 1990, replacing the diamonds with rhinestones. The sumptuously decorated 19th-century red velvet and gilt Napoleon III Apartments provides the backdrop for the spectacular, sculptural, black-bonded velvet ball gown from Demna's Balenciaga 2020 spring-summer collection. 'Ball gowns take us back to the early days of Balenciaga, when Cristóbal started designing in Spain,' Demna explained in the exhibition's catalogue. 'He drew this type of silhouette, inspired by Spanish paintings. But we wanted to make sure they were wearable dresses: if you remove the crinoline, you are left with a kind of gothic dress.' A few weeks after the appearance of this piece on the runway, Demna announced Balenciaga's return to haute couture. Equally at home in the Napoleon III Apartments is John Galliano's crimson embroidered moiré and velvet ball gown with ermine trim for Christian Dior's fall-winter 2004 haute couture collection, inspired by the movie 'Sissi – The Young Empress.' 'There is no set itinerary to follow,' Gabet said. 'We wanted the exhibition to be a fluid, leisurely promenade, a kind of time-out for our visitors, just as it allows us to use fashion as a bridge to discovering our collections.'
