A fixture in the London art calendar, the Serpentine Summer Party always draws the crème de la crème of the art, fashion, tech and showbiz worlds. Last year, the movie icon Cate Blanchett co-hosted the invite-only fundraiser in celebration of the Serpentine pavilion, an architectural landmark which draws crowds to the Kensington Gardens gallery. This year the pavilion, titled a serpentine, is designed by Mexico-city based architecture firm Lanza atelier.
The party line-up this year is just as glitzy with the Mexican actress Salma Hayek Pinault due to co-host the party on 23 June (she is married to François-Henri Pinault, son of the French mega-collector François Pinault). “When I visited Frida Escobedo's pavilion in 2018 I felt it immediately—a Mexican architect in conversation with one of the world's great parks, on her own terms. LANZA atelier's a serpentine continues that dialogue, and I am honoured to be part of celebrating it,” said Hayek Pinault, who famously starred in and produced the 2002 artist biopic Frida. Celebrated Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón, the director of Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018), and Alejandro González Iñárritu, who made Birdman (2014) and The Revenant (2015), will also co-host the Serpentine summer soirée.