Speaking about luxury with Ekaterina Petukhova – co-founder Esper Group

Ekaterina Petukhova is Co-founder and managing director of Esper Group. Esper Group is the group of companies providing multiple services for companies working in the fashion industry in Russia, former USSR countries and Eastern Europe. Every day Esper Group specialists monitor, collect and analyze using company’s own unique method the information needed to do business … Read more

Terry Richardson brings sensual Mediterranean glamour to Jimmy Choo

Jimmy Choo and Terry Richardson collaborates for the new campaign inspired by “the sensual Mediterranean glamour of Anouk Aimée in the 1969 film “Justine,” says WWD. The campaign features Magdalena Frackowiak and Jamie Bochert as rivals fighting over a handbag. In 2009 Terry Richardson shot for Jimmy Choo a campaign with model Alexandra Nilsen.

Green art: the Inhotim Institute -Latin America’s largest outdoor art center

The Inhotim Institute, Latin America’s largest outdoor art center, is nestled in a small city about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais. In the 1980s, entrepreneur Bernardo Paz, from Minas Gerais, built galleries to showcase his collection of contemporary art on one of his farms … Read more

Most Valuable Luxury Brands in 2012

World’s Top 100 Most Valuable Luxury Brands World Luxury Association’s official report on 2012 shows that China has become the world’s largest consumer of luxury goods. The report predicts: With the phenomenon of RMB appreciation and depreciation of the Euro and the number of Chinese traveling to Europe in 2012, total consumption of luxury goods … Read more

Samsung Group to invest record $41.56 billion in 2012

South Korea’s Samsung Group announced it would invest a record 47.8 trillion won ($41.56 billion) in 2012 and hire an all-time high of 26,000 new employees despite global economic gloom. The country’s largest conglomerate said in a AFP statement that despite the worldwide uncertainty it wants to expand future growth engines and contribute to the … Read more

Luxury means craftmanship – LE MOSAISTE : handcrafted Moroccan and Arabesque mosaic

In the world of Moroccan zellige tiles, Le Mosaiste stands for authenticity and quality. Le Mosaiste is French and literally means ‘the mosaic maker’, which is a trade the Farhi family has been in for several generations. The name was chosen, says Miloud Farhi, who is a maâlem (Ar. master artisan) himself, because the select … Read more