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...
Surprising the spot-on clothing itself that took the cake at Chanel’s Haute Couture 2017 runway. This wasn’t Coco by Karl, but rather Lagerfeld couture worked into the heart of Chanel. An exercise executed with gracious taste that expressed couture at its height. Beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais, the house on rue Cambon...
The suit, as we all know, was the key piece in Gabrielle Chanel’s vocabulary. Ever since Karl Lagerfeld awoke the sleeping beauty that was Chanel, the suit has been found with a number of fabrics, styles, and trends. With haute couture, the exploration of the piece’s infinite possibilities has often been the occasion to introduce...
Today, luxury is more a fertile ground for avant-garde than an outpost for ostentatious spending. A bit further than the idea of the object, the strength of luxury, and haute couture, resides in that which provokes or infuses an emotion. There exists no technique as exact, no quest for perfection as complete as that of...
There are brands where the spirit of the founder watches over every nook and cranny – this is the case for Christian Dior’s brands. We know that he was very superstitious, inspired by his youth spent in Granville in the Northwest of France. This landscape of plants, insects, and verdant reverie was reconstructed by the...
“Men’s clothing, notably suits, should never be restrictive. Comfort is, for men, something that gets top priority,” emphasizes Véronique Nichanian. Hermès has no equal when it comes to perfecting the essence of something. By uniting comfortable cuts with luxury, it’s the materials that once more reveal all the brand’s style. The atmosphere is more muted...
The silhouette imagined by creative director Kris Van Assche plays with contrasts. Adjusted jackets and three-fourths cuts – on bottom, the pants are more streetwear. With large pieces and cargo pants, the Dior man finally seems to adventure into the intellect of the underground, more particularly that of ravers. In reality, Kris Van Assche was...
Once upon a time there was Gabrielle Chanel, born a Leo on the 19th of August 1883. She was a little girl who invented her own legend throughout her entire life by hiding her peasant origins and tumultuous past. From the orphanage of the Aubazine abbey where Gabrielle spend almost seven years, she developed her...
It’s become a cornerstone creation for the Italian brand throughout the seasons. For this Valentine’s Day, the Gommino is playing with its famous 133 rubber pebbles on the sole, not one more not one less. They confer the wearer a unique comfort and stability in their movements. When the Gommino fuses with the tenderness of...
Their hair braided and sprinkled with ears of grain, Jean-Paul Gaultier’s beauties are free to not play by any unnatural rulebook. With open-toe platform shoes in bright colors and green, yellow, or red eyeshadow, silky accessories in their hair, they slip into elegant outfits, some of them surreal, some of them inspired by tropical islands,...
