Luxury & Celebrity Events in Shanghai 2026

Bvlgari Kaleidos Shanghai brings the Roman Maison’s High Jewelry and heritage to the Power Station of Art, where Chinese philosophy and contemporary art reshape its story of color. Running through October 31, 2026, Kaleidos: Colors, Cultures and Crafts also extends to Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai with art, photography and a limited-edition Bvlgari Dolci collection.

ICICLE presents A Room of One’s Own, the first Shanghai exhibition by French photographer Ilion Huit, bringing together 25 recent photographs inspired by Virginia Woolf’s seminal 1929 essay of the same name. Curated by Myriam Kryger, the exhibition explores the idea of having a space entirely one’s own, not simply as a physical room, but as a private territory for thought, imagination, freedom, and creation.

A member of the Hermès family, Huit has deliberately kept a low public profile, working under a pseudonym while allowing his photographs to carry the narrative. “Ilion” is another name for Troy in Homer, a reference that reflects his fascination with memory, disappearance, travel, and the passage of time. Photography has accompanied him since childhood, although his encounter with the Leica M6 became decisive in shaping the quiet, observant approach that defines his work.

The exhibition begins indoors, with photographs of sparsely furnished rooms punctuated by a typewriter, a vase, a lamp, or a table. Windows and doors repeatedly interrupt these interiors, drawing the eye toward another landscape and gradually dissolving the boundary between private space and the outside world. As the series progresses, rooms recede in favor of skies, sea, distant horizons, changing light, reflections, and fleeting figures.

Among the 25 photographs are intimate images of Huit’s daughter absorbed in thought and photographs taken at Sissinghurst Castle, the historic home of writer and poet Vita Sackville-West, whose relationship with Virginia Woolf became part of literary history. Huit also draws inspiration from writers including Marcel Proust and Jack London, treating the room as a place from which imagination can travel far beyond its walls.

Huit searches for brief moments that might otherwise disappear: shifting light, an unexpected reflection, a passing figure, or a landscape glimpsed through a window. A Room of One’s Own turns these fragments into a meditation on solitude, memory, beauty, and the freedom that can come from withdrawing temporarily into one’s own interior world.

The exhibition continues ICICLE’s cultural program connecting art, literature, design, and fashion between France and China, placing Huit’s photography inside the Franco-Chinese maison’s Shanghai cultural space.

Jonathan Anderson will present the Dior Cruise 2028 collection in Shanghai, marking his first major Dior moment in Asia since taking creative direction of the maison’s womenswear, menswear, and haute couture. The show also brings Dior back to Shanghai, where the maison previously staged a cruise collection in 2010.

Shanghai also holds a place in Dior’s own history: Christian Dior named one of his Spring 1948 haute couture looks “Shanghai.” The city has remained an important destination for the maison through runway presentations, exhibitions, and major brand events.