Actress Monica Bellucci is the equivalent of Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren in our times: an ideal of beauty as fantastic as she is sublime. This is how Dolce & Gabbana found her to be an indispensable muse for their composition that fits somewhere between modernity and Italian tradition. The designers and this actress indeed...
Her primary source of inspiration was femininity in all its forms. There’s an obvious desire at Lanvin to highlight female curves, to adorn the body, to veil it, to drape fabrics over it to perfect it. By cutting fabric diagonally, her draping technique was born from a combination of supple pleats yielding a sensuality and...
Presented within the Grand-Palais, the Spring/Summer 2017 collection went down the runway within a decidedly digital decor – signed Chanel. To this Karl Lagerfeld adds: “You have to live in the present, not the past. Electronics define our era. Everyone is taking inspiration from disco and the 80s. But what’s the point of redoing things...
Tod’s has gradually established itself as the centennial brand of last century. With their workshops currently overseeing design, Tod’s is centering their Spring/Summer 2017 collection on the “Double T” bag, the cornerstone piece in the Fall/Winter 2017 campaign, and on the iconic Gomminos. The brand is placing a timeless lifestyle at the heart of their...
If there were a list of “need to have” items in every woman’s wardrobe, Saint Laurent’s Le Smoking would be at the top. As the master of French elegance himself proclaimed “For a woman, Le Smoking is an indispensable garment with which she’ll always be in fashion, because it’s all about style, not fashion. Fashions...
This wardrobe is très French, made for the Parisian woman and those who aspire to be like her. The pieces presented in the Jardin des Plantes gave off a very Marant-esque sense of detachment. Romantic but precise, pure in their inspiration, the Fall/Winter 2017 collection is for a woman that’s out of this world. Made sensual in...
‘The Modernity of Antiquity’ is what Karl Lagerfeld entitled Chanel’s Cruise 2018 collection. Composed like a return to origins, supple drapings and the elegance of fluid lines caressed silhouettes of tweed and jersey, linen and silk, all imagined by the Kaiser. “The beauty standards of Archaic and Classical Greece are still valid. There never were more...
Freywille is one jewelry brand that’s different from the rest. Founded in 1951 by Michaela Frey and Doctor Friedrich Wille, the brand is committed to combining ancient techniques of working enamel with a very current and desirable aesthetic. A pioneer in the creation of art jewelry and precious enamel, the Austrian brand was built with...
Chic and rebelliousness: Coco was never able to pick one. A paradoxical woman, a woman of taste, a business woman, she led her life the way she wanted to without ever forgetting to love. Guided by instinct rather than reason, Chanel burned with passion, animated by a breed of disobedience as charming as it was...
No one understands luxury better than LVMH. Today, Stéphanie Watine Arnault, Bernard Arnualt’s niece, is piloting this new approach to French luxury in London. Clos 19 is a website that brings together the world’s main luxury brands, including the jewels in LVMH’s crown. Imagined with LVMH and its luxury wines and spirits in mind, the...
