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To 5 rue de Marignan, Paris, where the Alaïa boutique has opened a café tucked inside its hidden courtyard. Azzedine Alaïa was a famously enthusiastic dinner party host who enjoyed gathering friends, colleagues and artists around his kitchen table. "I like to be surrounded," he once said. "Even now, every day it's the same thing, we all eat together. Everything is mixed: people from the workshop, famous personalities, young people, old people ... it comes from my childhood and my education. I was raised by my grandmother in Tunisia, and her house was always open. The whole family arrived for lunch and there were always around twenty of us at the table. As soon as I moved to Paris, I reproduced the exact same thing." Café Alaïa will honour its namesake with a menu drawing on Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian cuisines - with dishes such as sardines, lemon, toast and butter, and rigatoni all’arrabbiata. Head over to @maisonalaia for more 🍋