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Art Notes STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA Inspired Set aside your Lululemon, ladies. Houston fitness studio Define Body & Mind has created its first collection of fitness apparel, DYI, which is as stylish as it is functional. Define founder Henry Richardson created DYI — which stands for "Define Your Inspiration" — in collaboration with his sister, Define's retail director Leslie Denby. They were inspired by the movements that define the Revolution, Body and Mind class concepts offered at the studio's four Houston locations (seven locations statewide). Denby, the lead designer for the collection, uses a mix of luxury high-performing fabrics such as Suplex, along with sustainable fabrics including bamboo, and intersperses with sheer mesh, which not only allows for breathability and faster drying but adds a cute peekaboo element to the pants, sports bras, tanks, tops and hoodies. A must-have: the cocoon cover-up that takes workout wear well beyond your workout. $42 to $78, at Define Body & Mind; shopdyi.com. Kate Stukenberg Workout Wear brought to byto by you brought you DALLAS ART FAIR BRIDGET MAC For the rest of the conversation, peruse papercitymag.com. DALLAS ART FAIR: APRIL 11–13, 2014; PREVIEW GALA APRIL 10, 2014 WWW.DALLASARTFAIR.COM A t the helm of Valentino since 2008, Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli have transformed Italian handcraftsmanship into a new international barometer of glamour. Their most recent endeavor, Valentino: Objects of Couture (Rizzoli, $75) renders their global accessories vision into a masterful volume that interweaves fashion and art on pages brimming with imagery by seven internationally acclaimed talents who straddle the sublime and the avantgarde. Commissioned artists who employ photography for this collectible tome include Japanese post-war provocateur Nobuyoshi Araki; English portraitist David Bailey of the fashion elite, who is regarded as one of the nation's best lensmen; Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon, a Scottish artist of a surrealist bent; Luisa Lambri of the sensitive, whispery images; pioneering street photographer/MoMAexhibited Philip Lorca di Corcia; hauntingly creepy Duane Michals; and Scheltens & Abbenes, known for exquisite still-lifes that rise to the level of timelessness. An added bonus is the insightful text by art critic, editor and 2011 Venice Biennale curator Francesco Bonami. This weighty volume, with 300 curated images, memorializes Valentino's kingdom of artful accessories — a mustown for fashion followers and art collectors alike. At the Valentino boutique. Megan Pruitt Winder Hollywood is best known as a moviemaking town — glamorous stars, brilliant directors, talented screenplay writers and special-effects wizards all living together in Becca one small community to create some of Cason Thrash the most memorable moments in the long history of film. But on October 17, these very people, along with the vision and financial resources of Wallis Annenberg, daughter of the late billionaire Walter Top left: Massimiliano Giornetti, Demi Moore, Top right: Roberta Annenberg, attended the gala opening of the Wallis Myers, Ferragamo USA president Vincent Ottomanelli, Bottom left: Angela Lindvall, Poppy Delevingne, Jessica Hart, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Bottom right: Karolina Kurkova To be known as The Wallis, the theater is located in the old Beverly Hills Post Office (erected in 1933). The state-of-the art theater will showcase plays, musicals, comedy, concerts and dance. Opening night, chaired by Annenberg and Jamie Tisch with honorary chairs Robert Redford and Brad Pitt (neither in attendance), was underwritten by the Italian luxury company Ferragamo. More than 1,000 guests were treated to an abbreviated performance followed by a starstudded gala dinner. As the guest of Ferragamo, I was seated next to brothers Ferruccio and Massimo Ferragamo. The very talented Ben Bourgeois and his team created a unique dinner tent that incorporated projected images of the new center in blocks on the ceiling. There was a formal fashion presentation of Ferragamo's Spring 2014 collection, followed by the Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo, touted as the next Pavarotti, who brought the house down at dinner's end, with Charlize Theron and Demi Moore leaping to their feet in awe causing a rousing standing ovation. The Wallis is a must for your next trip to Los Angeles. Until next time, cheers! BCT What are you doing for breakfast this Saturday? Pop into the new pop-up bakery at Triniti Restaurant. As a precursor to Ryan Hildebrand's FM903, which is under construction in the former Ruggles Grill space in the Montrose, pastry chef Samantha Mendoza is baking up festive holiday sweets in Triniti's lounge, starting at 10 am Saturdays. Treat yourself to shortbread, éclairs, brioche and more … Vallone's Steakhouse in Memorial is poised to open within a couple of weeks with chef Grant Gordon at the helm. Chuck Criswell is the steakhouse's GM. If the name sounds familiar, he's the son of Ann Criswell, the beloved former food editor at the Chronicle for many years … Here's a great gift idea: an Honor Card from The Houston Food Bank. Just make a minimum donation of $10 in someone's honor, and the Food Bank will send a printed card in the design of your choice on your behalf. Feel good that for every $1 you donate, three full meals are provided to a hungry Houston neighbor in need. Learn more at houstonfoodbank.org … After three years in business, Michael Savino, owner/head baker of Michael's Cookie Jar, has opened a second location of his popular cookie Restaurant Buzz MARTIN YAPTANGCO Jereann Chaney Tristian Koenig Valentino's Curated Volume Becca Cason Thrash digests the antics of the gilded set. Patron, collector and board member (Blaffer Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston Center for Photography) Jereann Chaney poses questions to Tristian Koenig, founder, owner and director of his eponymous gallery, Tristian Koenig in Melbourne, Australia. Tell us about the artist you will be bringing to the Fair next April. I understand you will have a solo presentation of Indonesian talent Hahan. What made you feel this particular artist was the one to bring to Dallas? Bringing Hahan to Dallas is something I'm absolutely excited about — thrilled, even. Hahan is a young artist of the post-Suharto generation, whose work directly engages with the transformations being wrought in his country, with specific reference to the art scene. Indonesia is inarguably the hottest spot in the international art world right now — you'd probably bump into more collectors, curators and gallerists there than at the Istanbul Biennale! Nobuyoshi Araki for Valentino: Objects of Couture The Morning After … COLLECTOR'S CONVERSATION Why are you exhibiting in the Dallas Art Fair 2014? I've heard the Fair does great tote bags! No, seriously, I've heard fantastic things about the Fair since it started. I heard that the Fair was bespoke, considered and was about producing tangible outcomes for artists, collectors and galleries — what more could you want? My very good friends Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow from [Workplace Gallery in] Newcastle in Gateshead, England, participated in the 2013 edition, and that really sparked my interest in terms of converting from being someone that followed the Fair to someone that is participating. After speaking with [Dallas Art Fair co-founder] Chris Byrne, I think we were both really excited by the prospect of including an Australian gallery in the Fair. So, here we are! COURTESY VALENTINO Terrific 10: The season goes out with a blast. Robert Pruitt, Houston Fine Art Fair Artist of the Year, solos at Hooks-Epstein Galleries — expect more of the Whitney Biennial talent's Afro Futurism, including extraordinary drawings of those in his universe (December 7 – January 11) … Moody Gallery introduces Ellen Tanner's minutely scaled paintings, which take Aesop's Fables as their point of departure (December 7 – January 11) … More Texans on the town: G Gallery's painter Felice House's Krimmie Wayne, 2013 and (sculpture) Dana Younger's The Bison, 2013, at G Gallery Felice House and sculptor Dana Younger; curator Diane Barber pairs them in a parody of the Old West titled "Re-Western" (December 7 – 29) … The standard-bearer of Latin American modernism, Sicardi Gallery, presents Marco Maggi and Liliana Porter, including the latter's nuanced conceptual self-portraits from the early 1970s (through December 19) … Art Palace's solo for Raychael Stine has been luring collectors aplenty, including Lester Marks and Leigh and Reggie Smith, for Stine's gestural painting based on abstract figuration, all inspired by her late pet dachshund (through December 21). Best Gift: Tickets to the splendors of one of America's mythic French painting collections. Touring to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are 73 canvases by dazzling players — Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro, Bonnard and more, plus some underknowns — from the age of Impressionism, culled by discerning collectors Sterling and Francine Clark. From 1910 to 1950, the couple assembled a magnificent cache that could never be duplicated, creating their own eponymous collection in a museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts. While the Clark gets an expansion by Tadao Ando, its treasures are traveling; the MFAH is the 10th and final stop of a three-year schedule, Milan to Shanghai (December 22 – March 23)… For more, James Tissot's Chrysanthemums, papercitymag.com. See you in '14. It's going to be c. 1874–76, at Museum of Fine a rocking year for art. Catherine D. Anspon Arts, Houston bakery and beverage shop. Look for his downtown locale in the tunnel beneath Pennzoil Place. Savino's all-butter confections (some of which are sandwiched with Fat Cat ice cream) can be delivered to businesses all over the downtown area … Longtime Houston Country Club chef Fritz Gitschner is preparing to open 60 Degrees Mastercrafted, the ordained master chef's ranch-to-table dining concept, in the former Palazzo's location on Westheimer near Kirby … Landry's Inc. — owner of Morton's The Steakhouse, among a slew of other restaurants — has created Morton's Grille, a casual sister concept that features the steak-house favorites that have made Morton's famous, as well as shared plates and grilled items. The first location has debuted in the Woodlands on the Waterway … Looking for a late-night nosh? Reserve 101 Whiskey Bar and Cocktail Lounge is (so they tell us) the only venue downtown with late-night food service seven days a week till 2 am. Kitchen manager Nico Schibetta makes all the bites, such as rotating cheese and charcuterie boards, flatbreads and pretzel dough with whiskey-cheese fondue, fresh daily, and when they're gone, they're gone … Max Gonzalez of craft coffeehouse Catalina Coffee has opened another coffee haunt, this one called Mercantile, located in Rice Village, featuring its own Amaya roasting beans and coffee worth the drive. Laurann Claridge