Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs exhibit: They’re both visionaries, though they would be the last to admit it

Louis Vuitton: The Exhibition “Whatever you try, clothes never really can live in the past. They are worn now so they are modern, with a modern take. I’m not nostalgic,” designer Marc Jacobs said backstage of the fall-winter Louis Vuitton runway show that featured models in Edwardian hats and a reconstructed Orient-Express. The show completed … Read more

Jean Paul Gaultier – therapist, journalist and a private detective for Diet Coke

Jean Paul Gaultier is the latest designer to collaborate with Diet Coke. The French designer has been named the beverage’s European creative director and is appearing in a series of short films for the brand. Gaultier is a therapist, a journalist and a private detective solving a puppet’s wardrobe dilemmas. Gaultier follows in the footsteps … Read more

Speaking about luxury with Isabelle Gellé – owner Les Parfums d’Isabelle

Since 2007, Isabelle Gellé, a French perfumer based in Yorkshire has been striving to make people rediscover the smells of Nature through botanical perfumes. Ahead of her time, Isabelle anticipated that consumers would want to return to periods when natural ingredients were the only known things around. Isabelle is a native of the Indian ocean … Read more

Celsius X VI II LeDIX Furtif mechanical mobile phone

LeDIX Furtif – stealth power symbol Significantly inspired by the stealth technology used in the most advanced aircraft, LeDIX Furtif by Celsius X VI II, the pioneer brand in the development of amazing mechanical mobile phones, is the very first mobile phone with a carbon fibre structure endowing it with sturdiness, lightness, a virile new … Read more

La Montre Hermès marks its centenary with two exclusive manufacture movements

La Montre Hermès – 100 years of horological history Hermès has a watchmaking tradition that dates back to 1912. At 2012 Baselworld Watch & Jewellry Fair La Montre Hermès presents its two first manufacture movements. One calibre has given rise to two exclusive movements measuring time in both the feminine and masculine worlds of the … Read more

Yves Saint Laurent and PPR appoints Hedi Slimane as creative director

Yves Saint Laurent and PPR luxury group announced the appointment of Hedi Slimane as Creative Director of the maison Yves Saint Laurent. Slimane will assume total creative responsibility for the brand image and all its collections. In parallel with this new position, the designer will continue to pursue his career in photography. Hedi Slimane thus … Read more