Echoes of Tomorrow
A Living Salon in Collaboration with CX in Soho
Time is not linear—it loops, folds, ruptures, and repeats.
In Echoes of Tomorrow, we explored this phenomenon by transforming the former home of Arturo Di Modica—renowned sculptor of the Wall Street Bull—into a five-story experiential salon that traversed the past, present, and future. In collaboration with CX, a Soho-based private members club known for its reverence of duality and tension between light and darkness, we built an immersive universe rooted in time as both a tool and a canvas.
From the techniques of yesteryear to the innovations shaping tomorrow, the salon interrogated how time imprints every creative field—how memory shapes meaning in art, how history recycles through fashion, and how performance carries the echo of centuries past even in digital futures.
THE PAST: A Bohemian Bazaar Across Three Floors
A portal into ancestral memory, the upper levels were styled as a lush, eclectic bohemian bazaar. Antique fabrics, incense, layered tapestries, and found objects formed a tactile environment infused with the sacred and the handmade. CX curated a craft shop offering artisan-made spiritual tools, anchoring commerce in intentionality.
The past was not static—it was alive through:
- A live chalk portraits in constant evolution by Noah Traplino
- Sculpture in real time, made before your eyes by Kaelin Palcu
- Spoken theatre that echoed historical monologues by Ryan Thomas
- Rap-poetry, marrying street vernacular with classical form by Ma9ic
- Live jazz, sonically weaving through decades from early bebop to nu-jazz
This section was a tribute to the raw tactility of the human hand, honoring what is made slowly, with care, and passed down through generations.
AI art by Interactive Items
THE FUTURE: Two Floors of Technological Alchemy
Descending into the lower levels meant entering the post-human dimension—the speculative future where digital becomes divine.
- AI-generated live art created interactive portraits using facial movement and speech
- Viewers could scan QR codes and see artworks in 3D, dancing in augmented reality
- AI artists programmed installations that transformed data and emotion into visual landscapes
- A team of musicologists and sound engineers constructed electronic sets that responded to movement, allowing guests to become composers in real time
This was a realm where the artist is the coder, the muse is the machine, and the gallery is a living algorithm.
THE RUNWAY: Fashion as Ritual, Relic, and Revelation
Time walked with us. In Echoes of Tomorrow, the runway became a living timeline—each designer translating memory and myth into form, silhouette, and fabric. This was not fashion dictated by trend, but by transformation. Four distinct visions unfolded, each rooted in a different dimension of time:
- Ancient High Couture: Adornment as invocation. Rare Matter's High Jewelry collection revived the grandeur of ancient civilizations, where jewelry was language, power, and protection. Gowns shimmered with handcrafted embellishments—part relic, part regalia—recalling priestesses, pharaohs, and queens sculpted from stone and starlight.
- Voyager Menswear: Tailored for the traveler between worlds, Leo Hsung's collection challenged the architecture of menswear. Drawing from voyagers, desert mysticism and nature, it offered layered, textural garments built for movement, mystery, and modern myth-making—utility turned into ceremony.
- Rock & Relic: Rebellion reimagined through sacred symbols. Jesse Lee's line collided the raw spirit of rock & roll with ecclesiastical motifs—burnished leathers, weathered silks, and intricate embroideries that transformed each look into a relic of divine defiance. Anointing the anti-hero.
- Otherworldly Royalty: A vision of sovereign elegance untethered from history. Hailey Kavaungh's gowns imagined monarchs from another realm—voluminous silhouettes, celestial embellishments, and construction techniques that bordered on alchemy. With sweeping trains, celestial detailing, and construction techniques that blurred the line between engineering and enchantment, these pieces crowned the evening with cosmic elegance. Each look a coronation in motion - queens not of history, but of legend.
This was fashion as mythology—garments not worn, but inhabited. A procession through past and future, revealing not just how we dress, but how we dream.
Echoes of Tomorrow was not just an event—it was a thesis. A curated collision. A living museum of what once was, and what might yet be.
Time was the medium. You were the subject.
