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BODY TALK Conventional Western beauty standards bore Belgian costume designer Jennifer Defays, so she’s spent the past two decades creating ensembles that accentuate and morph the body in unexpected ways. On April 23, Defays will present her newest work at Brussels’s TicTac Art Centre in MUTE, an exhibition that highlights her use of costume to explore societal stigmas and oppressions. Featuring haunting cotton masks with

FIRST LOOK protruding artificial cheekbones and her provocative Window Dress series—designed like targets, with circular openings at the pelvis, the works denote prostitution and the patriarchy’s narrow gaze on the female figure—MUTE is a layered multisen- sory experience that explores the stifling of self-expression, incorporating recorded shouts and cries as well as text by writer Natalia Dusfraise. “My definition of costume is a crafted work on the human body,” Defays tells GRAY. “It’s like a sculpture, and it opens a lot of possibilities.” —Claire Butwinick

California-based architect Scott Mitchell’s landmark 18th-century farmhouse to the monumental HOUSE residences are characterized both by what they Malibu estate seen in Tom Ford’s 2016 film BEAUTIFUL renounce (excessive opulence) and what they embrace Nocturnal Animals. The book includes a foreword (purity of form and space). Informed by Japanese by architectural critic Paul Goldberger and minimalism and Shinto aesthetics, Mitchell’s works contributions from longtime friend Calvin Klein. are fusions of rich organic materials, sculptural “I am most happy with the way that the book concrete, and seamless connections to the natural conveys, through the voices of contributors and landscape. This May, Rizzoli debuts the book friends, the emotional impact of what I aspire to Scott Mitchell Houses, a charting of the architect’s create in my work,” Mitchell tells GRAY. —CB design trajectory from a modern interpretation of an LAETITIA BICA; COURTESY SCOTT MITCHELL STUDIO

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