For their new iconic collection, Louis Vuitton is signing off on their first exclusive collaboration. By playing with the rules of copying, they push us to question our appreciation of things that are outside our time. By purely using paintings from the greatest painters in history, the brand is bringing these pieces to new heights....
Within this simplicity can be found something sublime, as Tod’s imagines and creates the Sella – a piece whose curves obviously recall those of equestrian saddles, while the details follow the same lines as horsebit-esque metallic pieces. With the false preppy airs that only Tod’s knows the secret to as well as a multi-faceted and...
Once more, Chanel’s runway closed Paris Fashion Week by moving many an onlooker. Beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais, Karl Lagerfeld set off a rocket to close this Fall/Winter 2017-2018 runway. The installation of an immaculate 37 meter-tall PVC space engine was inspired by a mission carried out by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet...
Hogans are renowned for being the first shoe to belong to the casual luxury category – with absolute comfort mixing unusual materials in the genre for the very first time. Born in 1986, the very first Hogan shoe got tongues wagging when it first came out. With lines inspired by the cricket universe, an adaptable...
Karl Lagerfeld chose these four because of their strong ties to the double-C brand and its universe. The entire works, from the bag itself to the ad campaign, was the work of the Kaiser. Presented during the Ready-to-Wear Spring/Summer 2017 runway, the Gabrielle bag is like a mischievous nod to Coco herself. This piece preserves...
1837: Thierry Hermès founds his eponymous boutique in Paris, specialized in the creation and production of saddles and harnesses. Located in the Grands Boulevards neighborhood, Hermès was still a far cry from being a luxury boutique – on the contrary, their target customer was demanding professionals and individuals seeking fine materials. In those days, horses...
It’s a tradition that was initiated by Chanel at the beginning of the millennium. Each year, one of the towns that was near and dear to Gabrielle serves as the theatre for the Métiers d’Art runway. After Edinburgh, Salzburg, and Rome last year, it’s none other than Paris itself that this year played host to this new...
The 2.55, the brand’s emblematic piece, single-handedly sums up the spirit of Coco Chanel and her obsession with liberating women. The inspiration for the 2.55 came from the way she liked to wear her skirts to the races – hands in her pockets, like a free man. With eyelets, braided leather and brass chains, a...
In the beginning it was brown. Yes, Emile-Maurice Hermès chose this shade for his label’s visual vocabulary, notably by using it for the color of the boxes that would enclose newly acquired pieces. But then World War II saw the Nazis occupying Paris. Like many sectors, fashion was slowed to a halt, and even occasionally...
Dior is known for the very special relation they maintain with the art world – by collaborating with six British and American artists, the Monsieur’s brand is pushing the limits of its savoir-faire. This project gave carte blanche to the artists. The objective: transpose their universe into the iconographic vocabulary of the Dior label. Six...
