The SC1 is a signpost to Karma Automotive’s future

      Southern California-based luxury electric automaker Karma Automotive announced the North American debut of its SC1  Vision Concept car at the 2019 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. According to Andreas Thurner, Karma’s VP of Global Design and Architecture, the SC1 is thought-provoking — it conjures a new definition of luxury and style with distinct … Read more

The fashion concept store that is rethinking retail

From speed-dating to upcycling workshops, the people behind Peckham Palms have created a space for new fashion talent. Is this a lesson to ailing bricks-and-mortar stores?

China Cool: Top and emerging Chinese designers are coming to NYFW

        Alibaba Group’s Tmall wants to cultivate fashion talent and the growing creative culture in China.   Alibaba Group’s Tmall, China’s premier B2C platform for brands and retailers, announced its new partnership with New York Fashion Week (NYFW): The Shows. The partnership will bring both top and emerging Chinese designers to NYFW … Read more

COURBET : The ‘disruptive’ French Sustainable Jewellery brand that even refuses ‘fairmined’ gold and diamonds

    By Philippe Mihailovich & Caroline Taylor In line with 21st Century youth who are now demanding vegan leathers be used by luxury brands, we are now witnessing the emergence of a ‘sustainable’ high-end jewellery house on the famous Place Vendôme*, for whom anything mined is considered harmful to the environment and thereby unacceptable. … Read more

Left to rot: the new global effort to preserve lost monuments

From a railway run by children in Ljubljana to brutalist monuments in the Balkans, the Nonument Group maps abandoned 20th-century architecture