‘It’s genuine, you know?’: why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’

Calamities such as Fyre Festival have tarnished the booming business of YouTube and Instagram stars. Now the industry’s top tastemakers have a new plan: keeping it real. By Sophie Elmhirst

Preview: Milan furniture fair

Designers and brands are playing a cautious game this year, reissuing classics or simply adding new elements to existing lines – and sustainability and recycling are key

Italdesign brings its most recent industrial design projects to Milano Design Week 2019

  Italdesign is exhibiting at Milano Design Week 2019 for the first time with a display space dedicated to its most recent industrial design projects. Italdesign DaVinci makes triumphal entrance at Milano Design Week Until the 14th of April, inside the Opificio 31 event space at Via Tortona 31 in Milan, design enthusiasts are able to … Read more

Raf Simons on life after Calvin Klein: ‘I’ve never defined myself as a fashion designer’

In one of his first interviews since leaving the New York fashion house, Simons talks about the joy of designing textiles for Danish fabric company Kvadrat and his plans to open an art foundation

Oceanco Esquel – The expedition yacht designed for remote regions and everywhere in between

      Oceanco Esquel is not your ordinary rough explorer yacht. A perfect blend between an expedition vessel and a sophisticated superyacht, Esquel offers the best of both worlds. The modern adventurer will need not only the best rain jacket but a down jacket equally suited to snowy experiences and urban lifestyles. Eighty Percent of yacht activity takes … Read more

How to move a masterpiece: the secret business of shipping priceless artworks

What happens when a forklift goes through your Picasso? By Andrew Dickson