Milan men’s fashion week: Prada women dazzle more than the men

Italian fashion’s preeminent intellectual, Miuccia Prada, declares her collection to be ‘post-modest, post-industrialist and post-pop’

Top 10 most valuable global luxury brands of the year

Economic weakness in key markets dims luxury sales of the top 10 most valuable global luxury brands of the year, says brand analyst company Millward Brown in its 10th Annual Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands Ranking released this week. Of the 13 categories tracked in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands … Read more

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

Fine and solar: the Monogram Sun

Radiant pieces from the Monogram Sun fine jewellery collection. A luminous aura of joy, enhanced by sparkling diamonds and guilloche engraving. How to bring radiance to any look? Fine and solar accessories & jewellery will do the job for you. Today, Louis Vuitton’s Monogram adds talismanic quality to a jewellery collection. Pink gold and four scintillating … Read more

Rem Koolhaas crafts a spectacular ‘city of art’ for Prada in Milan

A new Roman Polanski film is being shown, Jeff Koons and Donald Judd artworks are strewn about, and Wes Anderson’s designed the kitsch cafe … in a scruffy industrial corner of Milan, Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada have made a dazzling art space, so vast it’s practically a city. Oliver Wainwright is in awe

Paris matches masterpieces with Keys to a Passion exhibition

Some of the world’s most recognisable art, including works by Picasso, Matisse and Munch, goes on display together for first time at the Fondation Louis Vuitton