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your Swiss Bliss AKRIS OPENING: Dream Date Albert Kriemler's love of architecture is no secret to women who depend on Akris for multitasking wardrobe mainstays characterized by pristine lines, painstaking tailoring and luxe fabrics (hello, double-faced cashmere). And when store director Dianne DeVeny welcomes aficionados during the August 1 opening of a 1,700-square-foot boutique NorthPark Center hosts a Fashion's Night Out celebration beyond your wildest fantasies. Highlights include a Neiman Marcus Add in a special performance by The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and PaperCity as media sponsor. Somebody pinch us! Tap out northparkcenter.com for up-to-the-minute details. Amy Adams SILJA MAGG On the Cover joining locations in New York and Boston — the influence of American artist Franz Kline via sudden swaths of color and Akris brushstroke-inspired patterns will also be Fall 2012 seen. This event coincides with the release of Assouline's Akris by Valerie Steele, director and chief curator at the Museum of Fashion Institute of Technology. 43A Highland Park Village, 214.530.0004; akris.ch. Amy Adams We are living in — and loving — French designer Coco's supersized silk or cashmere scarves that feature intricately detailed drawings and watercolor imagery using digital-printing techniques. The Forget Me Not scarves and turbans are literary imagery, ranging from children's books to fin-de-siècle novels, surrealism, montages and collage works of the modernist avant-garde. The scarves have been featured in Numero, Nylon, V, L'Officiel and Grazia, and we are winding them into pareos, sarongs, capes and halters. At Barneys New York. What to Covet Now: Sharp Pert, Perfect and Prada Shooter T-shirts have often been the domain for artist statements. I love my Louise Bourgeois hipbones-emblazoned number and am still coveting the Jean that I missed acquiring at last fall's Museum of Art. Now the perfect name has stepped up to the tee plate: Prada, which deployed graphic designer Vahram Muratyan for a project entitled Parallel Vahram Muratyan's Parallel Universes Universes. Muratyan's commission Collection for Prada yielded a collection of both saucy and succinct images — sunglasses, handbags and shoes that morph into pools or skyscraper roofs and even a ring depicted on a well-manicured enigmatic, stylized abstraction of the artist's vision, executed in eyealso reference the science of semiotics and global communication media. And they're exactly what we'll be wearing at the next Gallery $235 each, through prada.com. Joyeux Noël comes early for the chic set, as the highly anticipated Saint Laurent Paris boutique opens its doors at Highland Park Village Hedi Slimane, the new creative director for Yves Saint Laurent, has renamed the ready-to-wear collection Saint Laurent Paris. The iconic logo and name will remain with the company Village is the Alexander McQueen boutique, following close behind in [ partnership between Neiman Marcus and Target may rival Batman and Robin when it comes to dynamic duos. The two retail [ of America's most talented designers — including Oscar de la Renta, Derek Lam, Marc Jacobs and Diane von Furstenberg — to create a can get their high/low fix at either location; prices will range from $8 to $500 The Joule hotel is making room emporium TENOVERSIX, owned by Kristen Lee, Joe Cole and Brady Cunningham, wife of actor Jason Schwartzman; Taschen Bookstore; Traffic; and UK skincare brand ESPA official timekeeper of the Olympic Games, Omega store in NorthPark Center Pockets A rchitecture may have been the foundation of Leonard Volk's 30-year professional career, but photography provided its whose grandfather started Volk department stores and whose father developed Volk Estates — has traveled the world capturing intimate, often poignant, aspects of daily life since he purchased his sometimes find qualities and intensities that are harder to find in broader views of the world," he says. The result is Everyday, a coffee-table tome years. Samuel Lynne Galleries (1105 Dragon Street) hosts a book signing and exhibit of the octogenarian's work Tuesday, August 14 Theater. leonardvolk.com. Amy Adams Art Notes Road Trip: We're mad for Allison V. Smith's latest 'zine, VI, which dreamily documents a love affair with the open road, from Marfa to Maine visit to Vinalhaven, Maine, where she goes inside the home of wordsmith artist Robert Indiana. Snap up the remaining copies of this edition at Barry Whistler Gallery you're there, contemplate the modernism of another fierce Texas femme, the late Toni LaSelle, whose mid-century abstraction in the gallery's to Waxahachie, where Webb Gallery mounts "The Greatest Show on Earth," an homage to the American sideshow banner, the historic, the Museum Mile: It's going to be a big, bold fall le peintre of the dance hall, Toulouse-Lautrec — at the Dallas Popeye, circa 1940, at Webb Gallery Museum of Art Spaniard Diego Velázquez, whose full-length statement painting of monarch Philip IV travels to the Meadows Museum, part of an ongoing exchange with the Prado there's a much-buzzed-about Lucian Freud stunner on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. It's drawing throngs, as this is the only American venue for one of our time's most psychologically astute painters of the human condition. It's a real coup this show has landed in a Texas museum. The Modern's Michael Auping is one of the curatorial talents weighing in on Small Again & Again owner Leslie Pritchard has moved her custom designs and glamourama Hollywood Regency furnishings to a new space located Bachendorf's has introduced the . Kitty Kay and Amy Adams Volk with Boris, his 1930 LaSalle limousine, in Paris, 1950 Left: Allison V. Smith's Olson House, July 2011, Cushing, Maine, 2011. Right: Allison V. Smith's Hermanos Vasquez, June 2011, Dallas, Texas, 2011. Both photos at Barry Whistler Gallery. AUGUST | PAGE 6 | 2012 See you in September! Catherine D. Anspon