The Miami Art Week crowd hit South Beach on Tuesday night as artist Marco Brambilla premiered “After Utopia” at The Wolfsonian–FIU, drawing a mix of art-world players, fashion names and digital creators.
Cohosted with Golden Goose, the party unfolded across the museum’s main floor, where guests mingled over hors d’oeuvres and sipped from miniature Don Julio 1942 bottles while a DJ spun.
The flow continued into a room featuring Golden Goose’s “Dream Makers” experience, where artisans screen-printed limited-edition posters inspired by Brambilla’s installation. Onlookers huddled and leaned in to watch each print lifted from the screen, available in red or blue.
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Upstairs on the seventh floor, Brambilla’s installation played across three screens: an AI-constructed, continuously ascending collage of World’s Fair pavilions spanning 1889 to 2025.
Guests included photographer Ellen von Unwerth; artists Sarah Morris, Pegah Farahmand, Kozo; gallerist Jay Jopling, and models, creators and athletes including Twan Kuyper, Josh Richardson, Dale Moss, Myles O’Neal and Camila Coelho — who was among those in head-to-toe Golden Goose.
“I feel like I’m in a schoolgirl vibe,” said Coelho, the Brazilian entrepreneur and content creator, of her matching set: a crystal-embellished bomber jacket and pleated miniskirt from the brand’s “Journey” collection, paired with black motorcycle boots.
“It’s very rare for me to not wear heels out,” she went on. “But these boots are so cool. I have a ranch in Brazil, and I’m definitely taking them to my ranch.”
These days Coelho splits her time between Brazil and Miami, where she relocated from Los Angeles and has quickly settled in.
“Miami is amazing,” she said of her new home. “There’s the beach, the sun. I moved after the pandemic, and it’s changed so much. There’s so much happening, so many new restaurants, new people from New York, L.A. Chicago. I found my crew. And it’s so close to travel anywhere, like Brazil, Europe — so convenient.”
Her connection to Golden Goose goes back to her early years in the U.S. as a teen.
“Culture shock,” she laughed, remembering her first months in Pennsylvania.
It was during that time that she discovered the brand she’d later collaborate with as an influencer.
“I remember my first Golden Goose sneakers, I was 14, 15,” she continued. “I didn’t know the brand before, and seeing some girls in school wearing it, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, so cool.’ But I think my cutest memory with the brand is that my son’s first shoe was a little, tiny Golden Goose personalized with a star,” she smiled, adding that her son is now three.
As for Art Basel, she’s no stranger to the flurry of brand activations that take over Miami.
“I love these brand events, where you can experience cool and unique moments, mixed with seeing art,” she said.
She picked up one of the limited-edition prints in blue. “For my son. I’m gonna put it in his room.”
Catching his breath outside, Brambilla was reminiscing on the project that he’s been developing for more than two years.
“I’ve always been obsessed with world expositions and this vision of the future and how technology will make our future better,” he said. “And then when AI was introduced, all of a sudden I thought, ‘let’s use that technology to kind of resurrect some of these time capsules that have been forgotten.’”
The artist has been coming to Art Basel Miami Beach for years, having shown one of his first video collages called Evolution at the fair and another more recently at the Perez Museum. “I think there’s still interesting smaller things going on today. I visited Jack Pierson [today] and saw a beautiful, very intimate show,” he said of the changes of Art Basel Miami Beach throughout the years. “[Before], there was only one or two events per night and it was very intimate and we were brought back into that kind of world today, which is interesting because it’s become so much more globalized and it’s become part of this whole circuit.”
