In this new year, the famed design house Hublot is expanding one of its emblematic styles, a style that only needed one year to become an icon of watchmaking: a super-flat skeleton watch, the Classic Fusion. First presented last year in Basel, Switzerland, first in King Gold and titanium, the Classic Fusion Squelette was then dressed up with an...
Christian Dior’s “New Look”, iconically incarnated by the “tailleur-bar” suit, has inspired Raf Simons. A few months ago during Dior’s runway show, he presented his first bag: the DiorBar. It’s a watermark for Monsieur Dior’s stylistic vocabulary with its pinched form and rounded basques. This creation also clues us in to Raf Simons’ trademarks: purity and delicateness. This bag...
Robin Day, a reputable British designer, made a place for himself in the creative world with his famed Polyprop: the first chair to be made through an injection of molded polypropylene, it was functional and stackable. A few years later, he imagined an angular armchair with pointed, masculine lines. Made of leather, not plastic, for...
Rounded shoulders, a cinched waist, a high chest, these are the words from the stylistic vocabulary of Christian Dior. The iconic Bar suit, the skirt from the Corolle Line; the New Look created after the war has been invited to Boulevard Haussmann, next to the legendary Lady Dior bag. Starting November 9, Raf Simons, the new artistic director of...
To celebrate its 125th anniversary, Bucherer inaugurated, for the first time in Paris, a new multi-brand boutique of luxury timepieces last April 15th. This story starts in 1888, when Carl Friedrich Bucherer, passionate entrepreneur, opened his first boutique of watches and prestigious jewelry in Lucerne. A few years later in 1919, he put himself to...
After offering women its Première Chanel watch, the house entered the enigmatic and mechanical world of technological watchmaking. For its 25th anniversary, the core of this watch is displayed in the exceptional Tourbillon timepiece, which hints at the Camellia. Decorated with the motif of the Camellia, the Flying Tourbillon beats away discreetly and almost secretly...
To Gabrielle Chanel, “a woman with good shoes is never ugly”. In 1957, she adorned the silhouette of the Chanel two-tone shoes. She made a call to the artisan shoemaker Massaro in order to create this accessory. He offered to compose it for her, so that it had some beige color “that blends into and...
Already well known for its ultra-limited edition collaboration with Hermès, the camera manufacturer Leica has joined with British designer Paul Smith to give us a limited edition of 1,500 copies of its compact X2. Paul Smith’s passion for photography is well known, from his first photographs at age 11 to the advertising campaigns of his...
“There are strong perfumes for which all matter Is porous. One would say they go through glass.” One might think that this is how Charles Baudelaire in his poem “Le Flacon”, imagined that Christian Dior’s Poison would be the elixir to the house Dior’s excellence. As if the aroma of flowers and the smell of spices had...
