The BrandZ Top 10 Most Valuable French Brands 2018. Luxury Dominates the 2018 Ranking. Heritage is one of the most powerful engines in promoting some of the biggest high-end French brands. Luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Hermès and CHANEL dominate the first BrandZTM Top 50 Most Valuable French Brands ranking released by WPP and … Read more
Designer Joseph Dirand sees craftsmanship as a veritable laboratory of ideas that goes beyond the specific skills involved. His latest collection for French luxury maison Puiforcat is a line of highly refined yet eminently functional pieces reshaping the arts of the table. A champion of minimalism, Joseph Dirand took an architectural approach to the design … Read more
I’ve got a ticket to the moon I’ll be leaving here any day soon … The CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon. Targeted for late 2018, the space trip will use a space ship currently under development … Read more
In fashion, it’s all about the blockbuster exhibition, with multiple fashion houses staging their own exhibitions. Is it more than mere vanity?
Strolling in a fantasy Paris. Flânerie – Hermes’ liberating art of urban wandering. The concept of Flânerie alters our relation to time and space, to ourselves,to others, and to the world, and can inspire and enrich creativity for Hermès. Quintessentially Parisian, flânerie is about revelling in the unexpected, says Hermès through the new “Hermès Wanderland” … Read more
The Ritz-Carlton luxury hospitality group opened its fourth Ritz-Carlton in Japan, in the beautiful city of Kyoto. Dubbed Japan’s first urban resort and heralded as one of the most highly-anticipated openings of 2014, the new establishment “offers a timeless window to Japan and complements perfectly 85 other Ritz-Carlton properties around the globe.” A peaceful sanctuary, … Read more