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...
Fashion is an eternal cycle of renewal, shaped by our obsessions. Paris, September 2011: the iconic pleated skirt makes its comeback on the catwalk of the Fashion Week. For the spring-summer 2012 season, the pleats lose their rigidity and instead sculpt fluid and lucid silhouettes. So antique chic! High-waisted with retro print accompanied by a...
When Jackie Kennedy opened the door to a Gucci boutique in 1964, she didn’t expect to find a companion that would remain faithfully at her side forevermore. She liked the bag so much that she bought six of them! Not one, not two. Six. The bag, first conceived in 1955, is instantly recognizable for its...
Elegance and beauty that come straight from the heart: Hermès has created a special edition carré scarf dubbed “Astrologie Nouvelle” who’s proceeds will go to the NGO Libraries Without Borders. The scarf is decidedly chic, its designs seemingly inspired by a Renaissance astrological table. You can find it in different pastel colors in Hermès stores....
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Thus wrote Jack Kerouac in “On the Road”, the novel that defined a generation at the end of the 50s. This generation included Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali, who was 15 when the...
