Unlock the Secrets Behind Anna Weyant’s Mesmerizing Dollhouse Dreamscape – What Lies Beneath the Surface Will Blow Your Mind!

New York Fashion Week isn’t just about strutting down the runway—it’s about diving headfirst into a world where art, fashion, and a pinch of the surreal collide. Last night, Anna Weyant took that idea and flipped it upside down with her immersive installation, The Dollhouse, nestled inside the opulent Academy Mansion on the Upper East Side. Picture this: oversized furniture that feels like it’s straight out of a dream, a courtyard blooming with fake daisies inspired by a Disneyland trip, and rooms where domestic life twists into a playful, hallucinatory spectacle. It’s less an exhibition and more an invitation to live inside Weyant’s vivid imagination, where beauty and unease dance cheek to cheek. If you ask me, this isn’t just art—it’s a jaw-dropping sensory journey that challenges what it means to experience creativity firsthand. Ready to step inside the unknown? LEARN MORE

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NYFW loves a spectacle, and last night Anna Weyant delivered with a surreal experience blending art, fashion, music, and food. The artist, celebrated for her uncanny, off-kilter portraits and still life paintings, welcomed a stylish crowd of tastemakers and creatives into The Dollhouse, a surreal, fully immersive installation staged inside the lush 1920s-era Academy Mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Presented by The Cultivist and Capital One Entertainment, the evening unfolded across a courtyard and a series of rooms filled with oversized furniture and objects conceptualized by Weyant.

The courtyard

In the courtyard, fake daisies sprouted from pots around a central fountain inspired by Weyant’s recent trip to Disneyland. In the Confectioner’s Kitchen, actors dressed as chefs bustled about, pantomiming the creation of sugary delights. Upstairs, a colossal two-headed teddy bear sprawled across a hulking metal bed, while a closet revealed paper-doll clothing cutouts of comic proportions. Everywhere, domestic life was warped, exaggerated, and reimagined with Weyant’s signature mix of beauty and unease, creating an experience that was less an art show than a hallucinatory house party.

The bedroom

Weyant has quickly established herself as one of the most talked-about young artists of her generation; her technically precise paintings often balance a certain classical beauty with an undercurrent of strangeness. The Dollhouse feels like a natural extension of her practice, as if her canvases have spilled out into three dimensions and swallowed their viewers whole.

Joey Lico, Mischa Barton, Cait Bailey, Peter Brant Jr., Mackenzie Phelan, and Erica Pelosini at The Dollhouse

Marc Jacobs infused the fantasy with fashion. The designer—who celebrated the 40th anniversary of his namesake label last year—shares a close friendship with Weyant and created staff uniforms scaled up to exaggerated proportions for the event, complete with cheeky fabric pins printed with a smattering of jewels. Jacobs also contributed archival looks from his milestone anniversary collection to be worn by tumbleweed-haired models roaming through the space, a reminder of his own reputation for marrying the theatrical with the subversive.

A model wearing Marc Jacobs in The Dollhouse

The guest list reflected the merging of New York’s art and fashion worlds. Jacobs mingled alongside Larry Gagosian, Mischa Barton, Derek Blasberg, Sarah Hoover, Athena Calderone, Emma Cline, Julie Curtiss, Will Cotton, Chase Hall, Chloe Wise, and more. Dinner, presented by Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn, carried the surrealist theme to the table, where towering candles tied with prim bows, sat alongside piles of plastic crabs, lobsters, and cherries, evoking the extravagant spirit of Dalí’s famed balls. The night ended with an intimate surprise performance by musician and actor Suki Waterhouse.

Suki Waterhouse

For Capital One and The Cultivist, the evening marked a broader vision of what “access” during Fashion Week can mean. Beyond the private dinner, the installation opens to cardholders and the public through September 12, with beauty masterclasses from nail artist Mei Kawajiri and hairstylist Dimitris Giannetos on the lineup. On the final day, Capital One cardholders can enjoy an exclusive high tea hosted by Weyant herself—a rare chance not just to step into an artist’s world, but to live inside it, however briefly.