Summer style: why it’s all about comfort and joy

Forget the no pain, no gain attitude this coming season. The living is definitely easy in loose shapes and flat shoes

Lupita Nyong’o joins Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, and Penelope Cruz as Maison Lancome’s ambassador

Maison Lancome announced Academy Award winning actress Lupita Nyong’o as its new brand ambassadress. 31-year-old Lupita Nyong’o has taken the world by storm. She received an Academy Award in the category of “Best Supporting Actress” for her moving portrayal of Patsey in Steve McQueen’s acclaimed film 12 Years a Slave–making her the fourth Academy Award winning … Read more

Dolce & Gabbana versus Victoria Beckham: a great fashion comic-spat

From Karl Lagerfeld to Roberto Cavalli, fashion is an industry packed with outlandish characters who revel in playfully picking fights

Emporio Armani’s first Swiss Made watches

      For the first time ever, Emporio Armani combines its design with Swiss watchmaking know-how Emporio Armani promotes its new Swiss-made watch collection which debuted at Baselworld 2014, a first for the Italian luxury brand, through a new cool video featuring a Swiss bank vault setting full of precious secret horological elements. Emporio … Read more

Objet d’art: Caran d’Ache x Lalique Limited Edition Crystal

  Baselworld 2014 saw the launch of CARAN D’ACHE Limited Edition Crystal, an encounter between CARAN D’ACHE’s creativity and French luxury brand Lalique. The famed Coutard design which René Lalique imagined in 1935 was the starting point of the luxury pen crafted from white gold, black ceramic or white ceramic.Caran d’Ache has reproduced this iconic … Read more

From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour

A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style