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Checkmate Has Never Cost This Much

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Decoding Chanel’s world-first Haute Horlogerie chessboard — and why the watch industry is suddenly obsessed with games. Somewhere in a Swiss workshop, a team of artisans spent thousands of hours doing something that, on paper, sounds almost absurdly simple: building a chess set. Except this isn’t the chess set gathering dust in your parents’ living … 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

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

Daniel Libeskind Wants Six Skyscrapers to Feel Like One Sculpture

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Decoding Seoul’s newest ultra-luxury redevelopment — and what “a living work of art” actually means when it’s zoned for 1,000 apartments Every architect eventually says their building is “a living work of art.” Usually this means a lobby with a slightly unusual ceiling. Studio Libeskind‘s new project in Seoul’s Gangnam district is testing whether that … Read more