“Luxury is a religion of quality and exclusivity,” as the designer of the timeless 133-pebbled shoe Diego Della Valle recently put it. Representative of a unique savoir-faire and conceived by hand in a factory in the province of Ancona, Italy, the iconic Gommino moccasins have never ceased to renew themselves season after season. This year, it’s...
In the beginning just as today, the ideas at the brand’s helm are innovation, artisanal savoir-faire, and quality work. This story begins at the turn of the century in the tiny village of Izeaux, at the foot of the Alps. It was here that Remy Richard-Pontvert set up his workshop. This shoemaker first conceived the...
Since 1908, Converse has never ceased to create legendary sneaker styles like Chuck Taylors, All Stars, Jack Purcells, or One Stars. This collaboration with Fragment Design pays homage to the original One Star sneaker, a skateboard classic dating back to 1974. This latest collection incarnates artist Hiroshi Fujiwara’s spirit of timelessness, quality, and craftsmanship to...
The Tod’s Wave Bag, worn by Nicole Kidman, Diane Kruger, Liu Wen, Alessandra Ambrosio and Dennis Elias.
At the border of the 6th and 7th arrondissements, at the edge of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, stands the Bon Marché. This department store alone incarnates the culture and chic, the very spirit of Rive Gauche. It’s a passage to exoticism, a window to the world and its beauty, a tradition that never ceases to be revisited. This...
Inspired by nature, Alessandro Michele came out with a collection that oozes controlled eccentricity. Michele deploys his vision of Gucci heritage within an imagination and a poetry that takes on the aesthetics of the 70s with wise and unpretentious emotion. The Gucci woman this time around looks like a girl that’s conscious more of her...
In the Tod’s Band are Hugo Sauzay, architect and designer, Chinese top model Fey Wang, dancer Eric Underwood, musician Tara Ferry, or actor Alessandro Borghi. These 11 “Apollos” that form the Tod’s Band were captured in London through the lens of Luca Carrozzini in images centered around the Spring/Summer 2016 collection’s mainstay moccasin. Just like...
The Valentino look? Three words: delicate, elegant, and fluid. It’s in this vein that the duo Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli took over the artistic reins of the Valentino brand in 2008, under the direction of CEO Stefani Sassi. The history and success of Valentino is inextricably tied to Italy, la dolce vita,...
Tod’s is paying hommage to the very DNA of Italy. In their new app “Italian Notes”, the brand offers a journey across Italy… From grandiose Milan to delicate Venice, Sienna, antique Bologna or dreamy Florence, all these cities’ secrets are finally revealed. In the end, Tod’s only seeks to answer one question: how should we...
The collection presented in Milan was one in movement – a collection whose key words were spontaneity and quality. In this vein, put forth by Andrea Incontri, each segment, each look seems imbued with a desire to create fluid movements, elongated by sensual steps. Leather becomes as bright as silk when it composes a liberally...
