Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world, takes a rakish look at art and museum stories. On Thursday, Kendall Jenner posted a set of holiday snaps on Instagram captioned ‘The Louvre at midnight’. This triggered a flurry of critical comments and articles online.
Why? Because of her decision to enjoy its storied halls sans shoes. Others objected to a flaunting of wealth they deemed crass from the world’s highest-paid model – an out-of-hours private tour of the museum’s permanent collections starts at €10,000. Rakewell finds it difficult to care much – if at all – about the footloose model’s decision to go shoeless.
When the Louvre has lately offered yoga, cardio, disco and dancehall-inspired workout classes, it’s hard to argue that Jenner has defiled some sense of sanctity. Are people really wearing chic chaussures while doing Downward Dog? Rakewell doubts it. Kendall Jenner taking in the Mona Lisa (1503) by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
© Kendall Jenner/Instagram More interesting to this scholar of the Jenner-Kardashian clan are the artworks that tickled Kendall’s fancy. Most are obligatory: the Mona Lisa , Venus de Milo , Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss and the Salle des Cariatides. (Once a hall at the heart of the royal court used by Henry IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV, it now hosts those jazzy-sounding exercise classes.
La seule constante, c’est le changement , as the saying goes.) Was she perhaps merely matching the .
