Marni Changes Address in Manhattan’s Upper East SideThe brand developed an art project with Sammy Slabbinck to fete the new store.

[Collection]NEW YORK — Marni has teamed with Belgian artist Sammy Slabbinck to celebrate the opening of its new store in New York’s Upper East Side neighborhood. Relocating from a different space on the same street, the 2,228-square-foot, two-story Madison Avenue boutique carries a wide offering of the Milanese brand’s women’s ready-to-wear, accessories and jewelry collections. In keeping with the brand’s recent openings, including a boutique in Florence, Marni commissioned a community of Colombian women to create an animal sculpture crafted from papier-mâché and beads, which is on display inside the store. Marni creative director Francesco Risso selected the fawn as the lucky animal for the new New York boutique, the third outpost of the brand in the city, along with stores in SoHo and the Meatpacking District. Marni Madison Avenue store  UNGANO&AGRIODIMAS The fawn is actually the protagonist of a short film created by Slabbinck, who cut a name for himself on the international art scene with his signature paper collages, illustrations, videos and prints combining already existing images with contemporary compositional styles. For Marni, the Belgian artist realized a video collage where New York’s most popular iconography is matched with Pop Art references through the ironic and naive filter of the Marni aesthetic. In keeping with

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