Category: Fashion
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Loro Piana Builds a Cathedral for Knitwear
While much of fashion outsources, Loro Piana, one of the quietest names in luxury just poured its largest industrial investment into a single sweater-making hub. In an industry that often talks about craft while quietly optimizing costs, a luxury company building a 8,000-square-meter factory for knitwear is making a statement. Possibly even a loud one,…
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Chanel Hires a Painter-Turned-Makeup Artist, and Your Lipstick Should Be Nervous
The house of the little black jacket just handed its color palette to someone who trained with a paintbrush first. In fashion, a new creative director gets a front-page announcement and a thousand think pieces. In beauty, the person deciding what shade of red your lips will wear for the next decade often arrives with…
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Hermès Crosses the Bridge: Why Brooklyn Just Got Its Orange Box
After three years of a “temporary” shop that behaved suspiciously like a long engagement, the French house has made it official. When a brand famous for waiting lists decides to stay somewhere, the neighborhood should take notice. Williamsburg, the Brooklyn enclave once known for warehouses, vinyl and artisanal everything, now has a permanent address of…
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Louis Vuitton Just Proved Your Grandmother’s Design Instincts Were a Century Ahead
An armchair designed in 1923 for a Parisian couturier just became the star of Design Week. History has excellent taste. While most of the fashion industry spends September obsessing over runway looks, Louis Vuitton quietly opened the doors of a private Paris townhouse to show off something with no hemline, no season, and no model…
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Who Owns a Flower? Louis Vuitton’s Monogram Fight Just Got Complicated
LV won its lawsuit. China’s museums just quietly won the argument. Nothing turns a courtroom win into a PR headache faster than a museum exhibit. That’s the position Louis Vuitton finds itself in after a Chinese court sided with the house in a trademark case — only for a state museum to promptly display artifacts…
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Checkmate Has Never Cost This Much
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…