Instruments of Disruption: Design is what you can’t imagine made beautiful.

  To celebrate the launch of its all-new 2014 IS performance sedan, Lexus luxury car maker created and hosted a MADE Fashion Week event debuting a first-ever live holographic performance art experience. The event, “Lexus Design Disrupted,” featured supermodel Coco Rocha and a bold retrospective from the archives of designer Giles Deacon in a creative … Read more

How to enhance a shoe’s beauty: patina lesson by Olga Berluti

  The “Shoe Polishing Lesson” by Olga Berluti / La leçon de cirage par Olga Berluti. Advice on how to enhance a shoe’s beauty is always newsworthy. One does not polish a pair of luxury shoes like Berluti in just any way. In 1999, Olga Berluti developed a specific care ritual for Venezia leather and … Read more

Fashion show time…tea time: Mulberry Tea Time with Wedgwood

Mulberry luxury British fashion house collaborated with iconic English tableware and lifestyle brand Wedgwood to create miniature teacups and saucers for its London Fashion Week show. The iconic Wedgwood Jasperware in traditional Jasperware colours, which also beautifully reflect the seasonal tones in Mulberry’s Spring Summer 2014 collection, inspired a bespoke ‘dolls house’ teacup and saucer. … Read more

First-ever Gucci flagship dedicated to men opened for Google Maps users

Gucci luxury house is the first luxury brand in Italy to join the Google Business Photos – an indoor version of the Street View feature of the tech giant. Gucci opened the doors of the menswear boutique in the Brera area of Milan – the first-ever Gucci flagship dedicated to men. The concept uses existing … Read more

The greatest white diamond ever to be offered at auction

Discovered in 2011 from the deep mines in Southern Africa, the 299 carat rough of the Magnificent Oval Diamond is one of the largest and most beautiful diamond roughs found in recent years. Carefully and meticulously worked over a period of months, the resulting stone is estimated to achieve US$28/35 million / HK$220/280 million at … Read more

The gardens of the Baccarat House

Baccarat crystal manufacturer celebrated the launch of Paris Design Week by staging the Home, Lighting and Jewellery collections in its gardens and VIP lounges. The new collection include Céleste lamps, ceiling lamps Clochette, Pegase horse, vases and votives Eye in red or black lacquer. Discover a photo selection of the new pieces, available in stores as … Read more