The second annual LVMH Prize for young fashion designers awarded to Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida

Congratulations to Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida, designers of Marques’Almeida and winners of this 2015 edition of LVMH Prize! Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Raf Simons, Riccardo Tisci, Phoebe Philo, JW Anderson and Nicolas Ghesquière awarded London-based Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida the 2015 LVMH Prize for young fashion designers. The star-studded jury offered Marques’ Almeida €300,000 … Read more

Someday the other museums will be showing this stuff: The Designs of the Year 2015 exhibition

A snapshot of the contemporary concerns of the design world. 8 years of #designsoftheyear: The Designs of the Year 2015 nominees @ Design Museum London. Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton, Google’s self-driving car, Asif Kahn’s Sochi Olympic Megafaces are just some of the high-profile projects represented in the exhibition of The Designs of the Year … Read more

Lucy Liu – Mandarin Oriental’s latest recruit

Lucy Liu is among the official “fans” of Mandarin Oriental hotels. Mandarin Oriental enlists star Lucy Liu to to draw travelers to its properties around the globe. By focusing on celebrities who clearly appreciate the finer things in life, Mandarin Oriental have been able to show the quality of its hotels in a far more … Read more

A Blue Tiger for the Blue Marine Foundation

Limited edition unisex tiger sweatshirt launched to support KENZO’s partnership with the Blue Marine Foundation. Blue Marine Foundation, a new UK charity founded in 2010 by the people behind the film The End of the Line, exists to fix the largest solvable problem on the planet – the crisis in the oceans. By raising a springboard … Read more

Even more luxurious and sophisticated: Yves Saint Laurent Supreme Bouquet Luxury Edition

This fall Yves Saint Laurent’s Supreme Bouquet glows with particles coated in genuine 24- karat gold telling a new fairytale about the mysteries of the Orient. Yves Saint Laurent has introduced this new limited edition of its Suprême Bouquet fragrance, a fragrance from YSL Oriental Collection. Created by nose Dominique Ropion (the creator of Dior … Read more

La Collection des Essences: Francis Kurkdjian for Elie Saab

La Collection des Essences: Elie Saab’s haute couture expertise brought to the world of perfume. Fashion designer Elie Saab is bringing the haute couture expertise of the luxury fashion house to the world of perfume. Together with famous French-Armenian contemporary perfumer Francis Kurkdjian (winner of the Prix François Coty in 2001 for his lifetime achievements), … Read more