At Chanel, glasses are a religion, able to be adopted along with the chic and timeless rules of the brand. “Sunglasses are like eyeshadow: with them everything looks younger and more beautiful.” This is the mantra of Karl Lagerfeld, creative director for the Parisian couture house. Chanel was one of the first luxury ready-to-wear brands to...
In 1959 the iconic heroine of “And God Created Woman”, Brigitte Bardot, ordered a pair of carmine Cendrillon slippers for her role in the film. Soon the Cendrillon model, just like its owner, reached the height of iconic status in shoes and became a symbol of elegance à la Parisienne. The following year, it was Audrey Hepburn’s turn to wear...
Jeweler Chaumet has a thing for dandies. Since 2003, Chaumet has been paying homage through its Dandy watch collection to illustrious gallants such as Prince Anatole Demidoff, Robert de Montesquiou, Boni de Castellane, Marcel Proust, and Sacha Guitry, all of them formerly loyal customers of the brand. Chaumet is adding to its Dandy collection, the...
“What’s the point of making clothes if you can’t do anything in them!” This advertising slogan from 1996 still resonates with our subconscious. From these quarrelsome whims was born the name Petit Bateau. Inspired by a French nursery rhyme, the brand rode on the success of its great innovation: legless underwear for children. This crème de la...
In 1937, Ray-Ban created the emblematic Aviator. To celebrate its 75th birthday, the American sunglasses brand is launching the Ambermatic Collection inspired by the Aviator. The collection features a light-sensitive photochromatic yellow lens, which becomes darker depending on the light and temperature. Originally designed for the U.S. military fighter pilots, the actor Tom Cruise, as...
Roland Garros has just began. The best tennis players gather for two weeks to compete. Who will gobble the other? Who will be the winner among Nadal, Federer and Djokovic? No doubt that the elegance will be the second winner during the French open. In such a competition, the crocodile brand is most likely to...
“To feel like a woman, wear heels; to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.“
“If you start me up I’ll never stop!” From the opening notes of the Omega’s ad for the Olympics, you’ll feel like entering the competition yourself, rooted on by the Rolling Stones. What better way to be a part of the action than to team up with the Seamaster? Created in 1948, the...
For Victoire de Castellane, creative director for Dior jewelry, “The symbolic value [of jewelry] is immense for, in its lastingness, in the fact that it can be handed down from generation to generation, it conveys a piece of eternity.” The new collection of jewelry My Dior doubly exemplifies this idea in reusing Dior’s telltale cannage...
Simply just the color red makes everyone think of whom else than the shoe genius himself – Christian Louboutin. Nearly 20 years ago, the “Chausseur Star” Louboutin decided to paint red nail polish on the black soles of a pair of women’s shoes and “immediately, the shoe came back to life. It is a symbol...
