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How Zegna turned its founder’s intimate world into bottles of liquid memory
Zegna, the Italian luxury menswear house known for its exceptional fabrics and understated tailoring, has just launched its first major fragrance collection in years — and it is not what you might expect from a high-end menswear house. Memorie is a set of six eaux de parfum, each one built around a specific moment, place,…
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The Haute Couture Suite that thinks like Isabelle Huppert
There are hotel suites that impress, and there are hotel suites that say something. The Haute Couture Suite by Isabelle Huppert, on the sixth floor of the Mandarin Oriental Lutetia in Paris, belongs firmly to the second category — and with its latest additions, it has grown considerably more articulate. This is not a suite…
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The Butler Did It: St. Regis Finally Arrives in New Zealand — and Queenstown Will Never Be the Same
The world’s most storied luxury brand just signed its name on the Southern Alps. Here’s why the wait was worth it. **The news:** Marriott International has signed an agreement with PHC Queenstown Limited to bring St. Regis Hotels & Resorts to New Zealand for the first time. The property — a new-build, 145-room luxury hotel…
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Italian by Name, No Longer by Blood – Missoni Changes Hands
Seventy-three years of family stewardship have ended in a single transaction. Now, with institutional capital in control and a new creative voice at the helm, the question isn’t whether Missoni can survive — it’s whether it can truly live again. After the Zigzag: Missoni Without the Family The house of Missoni was built on a…
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Horology’s Cold Shower: The 2026 Wrist Dispatch
The Wrist Dispatch: Watches & Wonders 2026-LVMH-Richemont-The Independents-The Reckoning There is a peculiar ritual that plays out in April in Geneva at Watches & Wonders 2026. Men in navy blazers and women in silk scarves gather under the vaulted glass of Palexpo to collectively agree that mechanical watchmaking is, once again, having its greatest moment.…
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Pour Decisions: The Spirits World’s Most Interesting Moves of Q1 2026
The first quarter of 2026 has delivered enough to fill a very well-stocked cellar. Let us open it together. The industry that never sleeps is having a very loud, very interesting year. From a white spirit distilled from French grapes positioning itself as the voice of a generation, to the world’s most famous Scotch quietly…