Culture Watch: What to See and Where to Go in May

Florals? For spring? This time, they’re actually groundbreaking. To celebrate the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, JW Anderson is joining forces with Burnt Fen Flowers on an exclusive installation at the annual event. Hosted at the label’s Pimlico Road store, it features 15 vases by the British florist and author Constance Spry, created in collaboration with Fulham Pottery. Five of the vases host floral arrangements by Alfie Nicholson, founder of Burnt Fen Flowers.

Teyana Taylor is taking her love affair with Chanel to New York. On May 19, the maison announced that Taylor would participate in a conversation at the 2026 Tribeca Festival as part of the event’s Storytellers Series. Presented by Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program, the talk will take place on Sunday, June 7, at 2:00 P.M. ET at Spring Studios with tickets available at tribecafilm.com. Taylor also joined the Chanel Through Her Lens Advisory Committee, which champions women writers and directors in the film industry. “I know how powerful it is when women are given the space, support, and confidence to fully step into their vision,” Taylor said in a statement. “That’s what Through Her Lens is about—empowering women to tell bold, honest stories in their own voice.”

With a guest list that glittered nearly as much as the jewels on display, A Diamond Is Forever partnered with De Beers at Frieze New York to present “Voyage Through the Diamond Realm.” The installation brought together artists and artisans from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and France to explore the journey of diamonds through visual storytelling, soundscapes, and scenography. The evening continued at Markette with “Matter of Eternity,” a multisensory installation by Nasir Dean that reimagined diamonds as ancient vessels of cosmic time. Guests including Sharon Stone, Swizz Beatz, Ciara, Julia Fox, and Dao-Yi Chow gathered to celebrate the evening.

To celebrate the reopening of its Ginza flagship, Miu Miu presented the Miu Miu Jazz Club on May 13—an immersive one-night event honoring the rich legacy of Japanese jazz and the women who shaped it. Conceived as a contemporary salon, the program began at the Dance Hall Shinseiki, the city’s oldest dance hall, and concluded at the historic Tokyo Kinema Club with performances and an after-party. The event featured shows from the Tokyo-based instrumentalist Lily, Reiya Terakubo, and Grammy-winning pianist Hiromi.

Photographer Peter Knapp is revisiting the revolutionary work of his close friend and legendary fashion designer, Andrés Courrèges, with a new exhibition at the Fondation Maeght. Courrèges’s spring/summer 1965 couture collection is central to the show, as is Knapp’s 1965 spread for ELLE France in which he captured the Space Age-inspired designs. The image, which features a woman floating in an elliptical series, informs the remainder of the exhibition, which includes four large prints, archival materials, and outfits photographed by Knapp in 1965.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs’s latest exhibition, “La Mode en Majesté,” traces the evolution of royal Thai dress from the 1960s to today through nearly 200 extraordinary pieces that blur the line between couture and cultural diplomacy. From Pierre Balmain creations to exquisitely crafted Thai ceremonial garments, the exhibition reveals how fashion became a language of modernity, elegance, and national identity under the vision of Queen Sirikit. On view until November 1, the installation commemorates the 170th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Thailand.