Meet this year’s ultimate beauty staples: beauty buyers’ top products

    Trying out the offering within the Beauty Halls is all part of the job of the Harrods beauty buyers Vesa Kalho, Imogen Porter and Federica Sinisi. The products that make it onto their bathroom shelves, then, must be something special. The list includes a perennial skincare hero, a lipstick that hydrates and doesn’t … Read more

Sustainability is key issue for department store fashion buyers

Brands risk being delisted if they ignore green concerns, according to survey of over 80 global chains

The final shortlist of the 2019 LVMH Prize for young fashion designers highlights gender-neutral collections

These are the 8 young designers competing for 2019 LVMH Prize to be held at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. This year, LVMH prize had applicants from all over the world, Greece, France, the US, China, Israel, Nigeria and so on. This year’s edition broke all the records with 1,700 registered applications. As noted Delphine Arnault, … Read more

Diamond-marquetry: Graff Luxury Watches presents the next GyroGraff chapter dedicated to the Endangered Species

      Expect the unexpected:  Graff, the British multinational jeweller based in London, is Lighting up 2019 Baselworld Watch and Jewelry Show with time-telling masterpieces. Combining rare métiers d’art with an extraordinary Graff’s in-house movement involving three different watch complications, the GyroGraff timepiece is the pinnacle of watchmaking at Graff. A work of art for the … Read more

Online retail fuelling rapid rise in sales of fake goods, says OECD

Counterfeits worth $590bn a year made up 3.3% of global trade in 2016, report finds

Astronomia Maestro and The Oil Pump – a glance into parallel universes of ultra-fine mechanics by Jacob & Co

    The Oil Pump, Astronomia Maestro, and Astronomia Fleurs De Jardin are the very latest pieces in the expanding universe of Jacob & Co’s magnificent creations. The ultra-high-end watchmaking projects were presented at Baselworld 2019 – The Watch and Jewelry Show. Jacob & Co is known for its fully mechanical and highly engineered timepieces with … Read more