He who exercised his talent for cuts and his love for lines with Céline, Lanvin, and Cacharel, is today applying himself towards turning iconic pieces from Petit Bateau on their head. On the menu: a reinvented striped sweater, its jersey fabric transfigured and quirky stripes to boot! At the center of his reflection: price. “I’ve...
After working as a commodities broker on Wall Street for quite some time, and before becoming the master of kitsch, Jeff Koons decided to devote himself to art with a resolutely contemporary approach. For him, art is the “preferred vehicle of merchandising”. In his perspective of creation, Jeff Koons mixes sculpture, engraving, and balloon sculpture;...
Ever since 1843, Krug has born witness to the legacy of a visionary founder: a nonconformist man with no holds barred who, desiring to offer his clients the most generous expression of Krug champagne, was able to read and define the very essence of champagne itself. Each year, independent of the weather, the brand strives...
Piaget is celebrating more than a half century of virtuosity with a new style that goes back to the sources of their success. The master of ultra-thin is going back to their inimitable signature, since become the emblem of a promise of innovation and performance. Materially, the attention payed to the aesthetics, the love devoted...
To imagine the new Hennessy X.O bottle’s design, the UK’s Tom Dixon started with the illustrious cognac’s very essence. From this nectar, composed of more than 100 eaux-de-vie, the artist extracts a coppery robe who’s facets outline the crystal frame. A downpour of chiseling forms a mosaic with multiple light reflections, reifying the Cognac’s generosity....
Diptyque’s 2014 collection revolves around three themes, or rather, three scents: Spice, Winter, and Resin. These scents evoke the white horizons of tree-lined slopes or the warmth of a tasty fireside treat. Winter’s blue incarnates the sensation of being enveloped by white through a fragrant point of view, Spice’s ambiance is warm and vibrant, like...
In January 1970, she slipped three copies of her modern and sensual dress into a trunk, and went knocking on the door of the high fashion priestess herself, Diana Vreeland, legendary director of American Vogue. “She didn’t come to see me with an idea,” recalls Diana Vreeland. “She came with a global offer, a product,...
A couturier runway had never spurred such hatred before. In 1971, just 25 years after the end of WWII, memories of the dark days of the Occupation were still alive. Ration tickets for food and textiles, mediocre fabrics, re-pieced clothing, hodge-podge accessories, and bargain rack fashion was the sort of most women, who were grappling...
On September 26th, Delvaux inaugurated their boutique at 151-154 Galerie Valois, previous home to the engravers of the Kings of France. The brand, created in 1829, once more called on Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil, who were already present for the renovation of their historic Galeries de la Reine boutique in Brussels. This Luxembourgish artistic...
