NUVO Magazine

06/05/2026

As soccer fever builds ahead of the World Cup, menswear finds rhythm in colour, dynamic tailoring, and a spirit of collective identity.

06/04/2026

Positano is a place where perspective matters as much as presence. And perhaps nowhere captures that sense of privileged perspective better than Il San Pietro di Positano.

In Positano on the Amalfi Coast, perfection may remain an ideal, but at Il San Pietro, they’ve come as close as one can.

06/03/2026

Golnar Ahmadian is transforming the fashion world one layer at a time. Up for a coveted LVMH prize, the Iranian Canadian fashion innovator opens up about her ready-to-wear line Golshaah.

Throughout much of Golshaah’s latest looks, buyers can see that rejection of old-world boardroom-to-bar routines.

06/02/2026

Dries Van Noten expands his vision of craft-led experimentation with a new multidisciplinary exhibition space rooted in the past, present, and future.

Opening Fondazione Dries Van Noten in Venice this spring marks a new chapter in the designer’s ever-curious practice.

06/01/2026

Darren MacLean has never needed convincing that his restaurants are among the finest in Canada, but he doesn’t deny that external validation feels good. Now that Eight, his most ambitious restaurant to date, has been deemed North America's number two restaurant by 50 Best, the Calgary chef has been given his due.

Darren MacLean has been a known quantity in culinary circles—and a local celebrity in Calgary—for well over a decade.

06/01/2026

In France’s Cosmetic Valley, Dior’s scientists are exploring how to reverse aging through OX-C—an oxygen transport innovation aimed at restoring the rhythm of youthful skin.

Dior Science is attempting to understand and potentially rewrite the biological mechanisms of aging itself.

05/29/2026

Representing Canada at the 61st Venice Biennale, Abbas Akhavan enters the city with the composure of a seasoned sailor, with his eyes on the horizon, alert to what moves beneath the surface.

Based in Montreal and Berlin, he has had critically acclaimed solo exhibitions in Vancouver, Bangkok, Copenhagen, and London—though few shows can prepare an artist for Venice.

Abbas Akhavan, representing Canada at the 61st Venice Biennale, is no stranger to how volatility can lurk beneath a veneer of civility.

05/28/2026

Celebrated restaurateurs David McMillan and Derek Dammann are the kind of chefs who turn grit, fire, and instinct into something unforgettable.

At their new Grille-Nature restaurant in the Montreal suburb Dollard-des-Ormeaux, the duo are treating diners to a selection of dishes that they call their “greatest hits.”

In many ways, Grille-Nature, to the west of Montreal, is set up to replicate the Platonic ideal of the suburbs.

05/27/2026

At Chanel, Matthieu Blazy has loosened haute couture’s rules. For his highly anticipated collection, the artistic director has recast Chanel’s most storied codes in lighter moods.

Couture made casual is the quietly radical proposition at the heart of Blazy’s debut haute couture season.

For his couture debut at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy recasts the maison’s most storied codes in a lighter mood.

05/26/2026

We are thrilled to introduce this summer edition of NUVO, Issue 109. Throughout the issue, we explore the beauty of the present, often overlooked during the summer holidays.
With Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel couture on the cover, we reflect on the meaning of luxury at a time when escape and immediacy are especially resonant.

In these pages, we move through a terrain of intimacy and attention, tracing how beauty reveals itself when we slow down enough to notice it.