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How Many Types of Sofa Can You Name?
If you’re asked to think of a sofa, chances are you’ll picture a kind of generic-looking seat with cushions and a comfy shape. But did you know there are over 20 different kinds of sofas – and that’s only the main styles? Many other variations of these main styles make up the…
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China Cool: Top and emerging Chinese designers are coming to NYFW
Alibaba Group’s Tmall wants to cultivate fashion talent and the growing creative culture in China. Alibaba Group’s Tmall, China’s premier B2C platform for brands and retailers, announced its new partnership with New York Fashion Week (NYFW): The Shows. The partnership will bring both top and emerging Chinese designers to NYFW…
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Barneys New York files for bankruptcy
Luxury chain made famous by Sex and the City has debts of up to $500m
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Automobili Pininfarina CEO Michael Perschke unveils the latest evolved Battista
Pure-electric luxury car brand Automobili Pininfarina leaves Italy for the Monterey Car Week. Design Director Luca Borgogno presents Automobili Pininfarina‘s PURA Vision design model at the House of Automobili Pininfarina near Pebble Beach. Past, present and future on display at the House of Automobili Pininfarina near Pebble Beach New Battista hypercar joins classic…
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COURBET : The ‘disruptive’ French Sustainable Jewellery brand that even refuses ‘fairmined’ gold and diamonds
By Philippe Mihailovich & Caroline Taylor In line with 21st Century youth who are now demanding vegan leathers be used by luxury brands, we are now witnessing the emergence of a ‘sustainable’ high-end jewellery house on the famous Place Vendôme*, for whom anything mined is considered harmful to the environment and thereby unacceptable.…
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Are crystals the new blood diamonds?
Gwyneth loves them, Adele can’t sing without them and Kim Kardashian uses them to deal with stress. Many of us are lured by their beauty and promise of mystical powers, but are ‘healing’ crystals connecting us to the earth – or harming it?