Category: Fashion
-
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…
-
A Dashboard Clock Grew Up and Became Two Porsches
Decoding Louis Vuitton and Singer’s first-ever co-branded creation — and what it says about where luxury collaborations are headed. Most great collaborations start with a grand plan. This one started with someone wanting a nicer clock. At Monterey Car Week 2026, Louis Vuitton and Singer Vehicle Design unveiled two extraordinary reimagined Porsche 911s — a…
-
Why a Paris courtroom just told the upcycling industry to put down the scissors
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…
-
Chaumet’s New Bees Come With Receipts
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…
-
LVMH Just Hired Science to Explain Why Designers Are Geniuses
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…
-
The Week in Luxury: Sculpture, Scarcity, and the Slow Reset of an Industry
—
by
in Art, Automotive, Aviation, Beauty, Design, DRIVE, ESCAPE, Fashion, Gourmet, Holiday, LUST, Real Estate, SHELTER, Watches|Jewelry, YachtsAugust 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…