Search results for: “luxury retail”
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Olivier Rousteing creating a global #HMBalmaination
“I want to talk to my generation: this is my main purpose as a designer.” Olivier Rousteing about HMBalmaination The Parisian fashion house of Balmain is H&M’s 2015 autumn guest collaboration. On May 17, 2015, Rousteing and his friends Kendall Jenner and Jourdan Dunn walked the red carpet at the Billboard Music Awards, revealing the…
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The UK company turning coffee waste into furniture
Re-Worked makes material from waste coffee grounds collected from offices around the UK to make furniture for the same offices
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Britain’s craft boom produces new model artisan army
From furniture to ceramics, small-scale businesses – all 12,000 of them – are satisfying consumer demand for ethical, handmade goods
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How China’s Macau crackdown threatens big US casino moguls
Exclusive: Investigation reveals how gambling giants made billions against backdrop of triads, vice and corruption in ‘Vegas of the east’
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Now the Shelby Cobra has a clock worth racing against
This June, Baume & Mercier will introduce two limited edition men’s watches to commemorate their new partnership with celebrated racecar manufacturer, Shelby Cobra. Fifty years ago, automotive legend, Carroll Shelby achieved a victory that would change the course of international racing forever and in doing so, Shelby would restore American racing prestige. To honor this…
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Beyond the bling: the most pointless luxuries ever
A bubble-bath necklace? A DNA vending machine? An unwearable gold hat that took 12 years to weave? Through a collection of priceless, pointless and surprising objects, the V&A’s new exhibition asks: what is luxury?