Louis Vuitton L’Aventure

Every happy journey starts with a well-packed bag, n’est-ce pas? While Louis Vuitton’s Creative Director Marc Jacobs is preparing to leave the luxury fashion house for the work on an initial public offering, the French luxury label opened L’Aventure – a travel pop-up store on 22, Avenue Montaigne in Paris.   Designed in collaboration with … Read more

The largest urban farm in Japan

Pasona Urban Farm with a vertical farm inside and out.  Kono Designs, the architecture firm behind the largest urban farm in Japan, hopes that 15,000 square foot corporate office building with a double skinned green facade will make urbanites reconsider agriculture and embrace this new design trend. 20% of the Tokyo based recruitment agency Pasona … Read more

Bottega Veneta opens its largest flagship in the world

The Italian luxury house Bottega Veneta opened its first Maison in the world, in the prestigious location of Via Sant’Andrea 15 in Milan. The 1000 square meters store it the largest Bottega Veneta boutique in the world so far and would offer unique and exclusive pieces unavailable elsewhere. “The store design and the approach to … Read more

There are two currencies in the world: money and time

What is affluence today? Money has a price, but time is priceless.   The primary indicators of affluence are more subtle and harder for brands and individuals to detect, according to the newest global study from McCann Truth Central. “The Truth About Affluence” study is based on a quantitative 4,000-person online survey across 16 countries … Read more

Signature luxury suite collection @ Warwick New York Hotel

Warwick New York Hotel pays homage to Hollywood legends.    Appealing to cultural connotations and heritage, luxury hotels dive in the personalization of personalization. The Warwick New York Hotel celebrates the spirit of the Old Hollywood era and the innovators of today’s cultural landscape by unveiling of five new specialty suites. Originally built as a … Read more

A New York Holiday by Shawn ‘JAY Z’ Carter and Barneys

  There’s just something about New York City. It’s been immortalized in literature, in movies, in music. It’s got an attitude, a style, an ethos that’s impossible to imitate. This holiday season, Barneys New York and Jay Z will take the slickness, energy, and innovation of New York City and will translate that into quality, … Read more