‘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

Lladró Nightbloom by Marcel Wanders and Ice Cream Dreams

    Coinciding with Euroluce 2019, Lladró announced the launch of Nightbloom in collaboration with the celebrated Dutch design studio Marcel Wanders.This collection of white porcelain chandeliers is inspired by the way the petals of a flower delicately dance in the wind and breeze. Sculpted by hand with a sense of natural randomness, each 3D-relief … Read more

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

Trends for spring: what’s new in the world of design

A seaweed house, eye-popping cakes, furniture as art and art as furniture are among the ideas turning heads this season

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