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
A diamond-encrusted Hermès bag has sold at Christie’s for £155,000. Why are they so desirable – and do any of the other luxury brands make an equally smart investment?
A Hermès or a Birkin is now a high-performing investment as well as a fashion statement after years of record prices
CHLOË SEVIGNY: VINTAGE MUSE American actress, fashion designer, director, and former model Chloë Sevigny is launching new Vintage category on Vestiaire Collective, Europe’s premier luxury resale platform. The new vintage category goes live in conjunction with an editorial styled and conceptualized by VESTIAIRE COLLECTIVE’s Contributing Fashion Director Kate Foley and Head of Vintage Marie Blanchet. … Read more
In an age where Banksy’s work sells at major auction houses, street art is as big if not bigger than any modern art movement For years, street art & graffiti pumped power and succulent creative juices into an atrophied concrete world. For almost four decades, artists splash the urban landscape with color, beautifying grey spaces, … Read more
Macaron dans le etoiles. Few grams of sweetness out into the galaxy. This week, SpaceX Dragon, the cargo ship of the American private space transportation company SpaceX, brought supplies and a birthday treat to the International Space Station. Besides supplies for the seven experiments developed by Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales/ CNES for the Proxima mission … Read more