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Author: Icon-Icon (Sébastien GIRARD)
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The Top Gun Pilot’s Watch By IWC
Since 1868, Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen has been making timepieces of lasting and inestimable quality. Founded by an American, Florentine Ariosto Jones, a true pioneer that founded what is still the first and only watchmaking brand in the Northeast of Switzerland, this manufacturer of 360 employees produces masterpieces of watchmaking that have been uniting engineering...
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The Bomber
At the beginning of the 50s, war was over but military progress kept on. The bomber as we know it today, the MA-1, emerged along with new fighter planes. Issued from a long line of military jackets, the bomber constantly evolved to adapt to the needs of the army. The MA-1 replaced the B-15 who’s...
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Classique by Jean-Paul Gaultier
A glass corseted body in a flesh pink bustier with conical, almost phallic, breasts… a sensual fragrance evoking sensuousness and the intimacy of the boudoir, the perfume Classique is without a doubt Jean-Paul Gaultier’s icon par excellence. To anchor itself in modernism, the sailor stripe man knows perhaps better than anyone how to take inspiration from times...
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Berluti’s Andy Mocassins
A precursor to luxury ready-to-wear shoes as well as designer of the first laced pump, Berluti has been shining around the world with its shoes for more than 100 years. Made almost exclusively in “Venezia” leather, reputed for its flexibility and aptitude for colors, each of their shoes is handmade in the brand’s workshops. Whether...
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American Photographer Mannion’s Hip-Hop Honored on the Quais Hennessy
Over these past twenty years, he has created album artwork for some of the most emblematic artists in the hip-hop scene: Eminem, Lil Wayne, Nas, and Jay-Z to name a few. On the glossy covers of magazines like The Fader, XXL, or Vibe, he has helped to construct a narrative that conveys the story of...
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Petit h, The Unexpected Luxury
In a splendid old building that once housed a swimming pool on 17 rue de Sèvres in Paris, some (re)creations from the Hermès Petit H line are setting up shop after having made it around the world since 2010. The line has since June 5th established a permanent point of sale in what was once...
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The Trunk Show for the Trunk Maker Moynat at Galeries Lafayette
The design house Moynat founded in 1849, opens a pop-up store at the Galeries Lafayette, a unique showcase for the legendary Parisian leather goods and trunk maker. The Moynat Trunk Show moves to the luxury floor of Galeries Lafayette for a period of six months, beginning July 8. Conceived as a monumental and transparent trunk,...