Editorial Team

Monterey Car Week Turned 75 and Brought Receipts

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Decoding this year’s Pebble Beach spectacle — three very different bets on what “the future of luxury cars” actually means. Once a year, a small stretch of California coastline becomes the single most concentrated display of automotive wealth, nostalgia and ambition on the planet. The 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Monterey Car Week (August … Read more

Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi finally has an opening date — here’s why it took two decades

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Twenty Years, One Napkin Sketch, and a Museum the Size of a Small Airport Some restaurants make you wait forty-five minutes for a table. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi made the entire art world wait twenty years for a building. On December 11, 2026, it finally opens — and the wait, by every account, appears to … Read more

Why a Paris courtroom just told the upcycling industry to put down the scissors

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Your Grandmother’s Chanel Buttons Just Got a Restraining Order There’s a particular kind of person who spends a Sunday afternoon prying vintage CC buttons off a thrifted tweed jacket, gluing them onto a chain, and calling it “reworked couture.” As of this season, that person has a legal problem. On May 21, 2026, the Paris … Read more

Chaumet’s New Bees Come With Receipts

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Inside the first High Jewelry set made entirely of gold you can actually trace Every so often, the jewelry industry unveils a piece designed to be admired. Occasionally, it unveils a piece designed to be interrogated — in the best sense. Chaumet‘s new Bee de Chaumet High Jewelry set, revealed on July 22, is very … Read more

LVMH Just Hired Science to Explain Why Designers Are Geniuses

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Decoding the new LVMH’s “Sciences & Creation” Chair — and what it actually means once the press release ends Every luxury conglomerate eventually produces a headline that sounds like it was generated by a very expensive fog machine. “LVMH and Institut Français de la Mode launch the Sciences & Creation Chair, dedicated to new scientific … Read more

The Week in Luxury: Sculpture, Scarcity, and the Slow Reset of an Industry

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August is supposed to be luxury’s quiet month — the pause between resort season and the September show circuit. This week said otherwise. Auction houses posted their best first half in years, private jet operators are consolidating and rationing access in the same breath, a hypercar shed a meter of height for the sake of … Read more