Perfume lovers unite, this new fragrance is sure to tickle your nostrils. It’s bound to enter into legend as well what with its flashy exterior and equally flashy price tag. The flask is made of crystal and 24 carat gold, and encrusted with 2,000 white diamonds inserted one by one. On one of the flask’s...
This time it’s in a surrealist atmosphere that Marion Cotillard incarnates the Lady Dior. Just like a Hollywood icon, the actress slips into a short black get-up for the Cruise 2015 collection and, light and mischievous, upsets all the rules of gravity. Marion Cotillard lends her voice to a rhythm from the leader of the...
At Chanel, the lion is more than just an emblem. Everything started with Mademoiselle’s birth on August 19th 1883. From that moment on, the fifth sign of the zodiac, Leo the Lion, became hers. Like the number 5, she found a lucky charm in this feline ever since her very first moments on Earth. She...
Kris Knight grew up in the countryside. That contact with nature and the memories he has of the pastries from his mother’s bakery still imbue the work he creates for Gucci today. In fact, the pastel colors that can be seen on the legendary scarf are none other, in his own words, than the reminiscence...
While “caviar” was first mentioned in the West in the 9th century, the roots of consumption of Caspian sea sturgeon eggs lie in Persia. These trailblazers passed their taste for the fine dish on to the court of Russia, where the Czars would serve it during grand Imperial banquets… And then the Bolshevik Revolution happened....
Florence: 1860. One Giovannia Panerai was chosen to set up a watch shop-cum-atelier. For several years, Giovanni Panerai had already been the official supplier of watch-bracelets to the Italian Navy. To respond to the country’s new military requirements, this man was pushed to invent what would be the ancestor of the Luminor: the Radiomir, a...
Shalimar Souffle de Parfum is like a delicately perfumed caress. Fashion house Guerlain is digging into exceptional essences for the formula for a new equation that takes off with lively and feisty notes of citrus, blossoming onto a bright armful of sambac jasmine. Then, the scent is exalted with a smooth-spoken sensuality when a brand...
It’s become a tradition: for the holiday season until January 10th, the den of Parisian fashion hosts the Christmas story of one fashion house every year. After Prada in 2013, Printemps is now partnering up with Burberry. Just for the occasion, the British brand is taking over the window fronts, the façade, and the atrium...
One thing is sure, and that’s the fact that Hedi Slimane is bringing his rock’n’roll twist to this decade. Yves Saint Laurent said “I create for my era and I try to anticipate for tomorrow.” Slimane creates for tomorrow by taking inspiration from yesterday while taking care to overturn contemporary codes in his wake. This...
“How could one find anything more becoming and eternally modern?” Gabrielle Chanel saw stars and comets as an inexhaustible and privileged source of inspiration. Then Coco became Chanel, and these astral bodies went right along with her as the essence of her accessorized looks. Why? Since they alone are enough to highlight a woman’s beauty...
