Ten years ago, N°5 was a perfume for a woman – played by Nicole Kidman – a woman who’d decided to liberate herself from the constraints of reality. Living high up in a dreamy ideal, she renounced this desire and poetically came back to reality. Today, through the lens of Luhrmann, this woman, her skin...
Comme des Garçons, Louis Vuitton, Adidas… for a long time, collaborators have come, one after another, for Pharrell, collaborations in which artists are given a black slate to imagine elegant designs of highly desirable pieces. The “Moynat x Pharrell” collaboration promises the same. From October 20, the most hyped Parisian store will serve as the...
“Il était une fois”… or “Once upon a time” for us Anglo-Saxons. Once upon a time Christian Dior had his first runway show. In 1947, the New Look was born: from chapter to chapter, this style was developed, or rather propagated by the fashion house. These are the roots of a style in the process...
At Isabel Marant’s fashion house, everything is a matter of independence. To concoct her collections, the artist only uses what she deems essential; Isabel creates what she wants to wear. And next summer, Marant is seeing things through a modern art lens; she’s borrowing the graphic work of Miró and Tàpies all while changing the...
Inspired by the socks inserted into the shoes of Japanese factory workers, this practical piece from Asia was reinvented in 1989 by Martin Margiela. Wishing to unite the past with the present, he re-transcribed it starting with an object that had a hundred years of history, making for a surprisingly futuristic creation. With this game...
“Make fashion, not war.” On a Tuesday, Karl Lagerfeld brought fashion into the streets. Following the Mademoiselle to a T, she who said: “There is no fashion if it doesn’t make it into the street”, the Kaiser went so far as to recreate a typical Parisian boulevard underneath the nave of the Grand Palais. The Haussmann-style...
Christian Dior was one of the first couture houses to show a particular interest for the watchmaking universe. While the first timepieces imagined were in the middle of last century, it was in 2004 that Dior was able to bring out a piece like none ever seen before it. In 2004, their workshops released the...
Model and Burberry muse Suki Waterhouse was the hostess for a soirée thrown in Taiwan; the perfect occasion to present Art of the Trench in Asia, Burberry’s digital platform launched for the first time in Taipei, Hong Kong, and Chengdu. Burberry is now more than ever an English luxury label, global and international, that has...
Renowned for her luxury hand-embroidered clutches, Olympia Le-Tan is this time getting off the beaten path. Surprising to say the least. For this exclusive collaboration, Olympia Le-Tan is leaving her literary dreams, usually her source of inspiration, behind. For Caviar Kaspia, the young designer reproduced a copy of the restaurant’s famed logo, imagined in 1927...
Jean-Paul Gaultier was once a young boy in Bagneux, France who looked at his era through a set of generous, visionary eyes. Then Jean-Paul became Gaultier: a talented technician of cuts, an audacious colorist, capable of conceiving pieces as insolent as they are desirable. He created his classics by starting from a repertoire of insolence....
