Postcard from Florence: A Pucci scarf to help restore the stunning Battistero in Florence

Help Pucci fashion house save the Florence Baptistery, discover “SOS Battistero”- the limited edition scarf in collaboration with @yoox. Italy’s luxury houses are actively involved in restoration of important monuments in Italy. Fendi, Tod’s, Diesel were some of the Italian companies helping preserve Italy’s cultural treasures. The latest house offering a helping hand is Pucci, … Read more

The 2015 ClubSwan season

The extensive calendar of ClubSwan events planned for 2015 was presented in the backdrop of Yacht Club Monaco. The 2015 ClubSwan season is culminating with the 50th years anniversary of Nautor’s Swan, which will be celebrated at the 2016 Rolex Swan Cup in Porto Cervo, Italy. The 2015 ClubSwan season kicked off in style in … Read more

Chanel testing the e-commerce approach

Chanel set to launch an e-commerce option next year. Inevitably, French luxury house Chanel could not resist the online progress and the opportunities offered by online retailing. Chanel joins Fendi, the latest luxury brand to embrace e-commerce. At the brand’s Salzburg-New York event the maison unveiled that it is set to launch an e-commerce option … Read more

Future-spective: Karl Lagerfeld celebrated as an icon of the zeitgeist

Karl Lagerfeld: ModeMethode: The first comprehensive exhibition to explore the fashion universe of Karl Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfeld is known for injecting classic shapes with new life and for taking fashion into new directions. For the past sixty years – from 1955 to today – Lagerfeld’s creations have demonstrated his extraordinary feel fort he ‘now’. A new exhibition … Read more

Fur trade booming after swing from fashion faux pas to catwalk favourite

Figures show farmers stepping up production to meet soaring demand for mink, sable, fox and ferret pelts

Dolce and Gabbana are unafraid of spats, but IVF row divides family of fans

The Italian fashion partnership rooted in Dolce’s Sicilian style and Gabbana’s graphic inventiveness are unrepentantly bound to family