honest luxury: Gabriela Hearst, Retro-Fit, and Chloé

  Gabriela Hearst is the new Creative Director of Chloé, a major move for the New York-based CFDA member known for her namesake luxury brand of ultra-luxurious clothes and a pioneering business ethos centered on sustainability. According to Gabriela Hearst, quoted by cfda/ The Council of Fashion Designers of America, her aim was to create … Read more

‘Toxic dispute’ over Zaha Hadid’s £100m estate finally settled

Court case at end of four-year feud hears contested allegations of financial mismanagement and ‘clandestine relationships’ between practice principal and junior staff

Why should girls learn coding?

  It’s long been known that there are far more men and boys who love coding, and the lack of women and girls in computer science is a well-documented problem. Let’s face it, technology is all around us and the demand for engineers and developers will only continue to grow. Whether its in the classroom, … Read more

Alibaba and Richemont invest in Farfetch China

      “The growth potential of luxury e-commerce has never been so promising, and the importance of China for the luxury industry is only becoming more obvious every day.” – François-Henri Pinault, Chairman, Artemis (the controlling shareholder of global Luxury group Kering (Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo, … Read more

Green Carpet Fashion Awards 2020 innovate with the first digital green carpet in the world

    One of the most powerful storytelling moments of an event, the red carpet, has been completely reinvented for Green Carpet Fashion Awards 2020 with the launch of the first digital green carpet in the world. The fourth edition of the Green Carpet Fashion Awards 2020 this year was held in digital format, transforming … Read more

The new Ghost is a slightly smaller, less ostentatious means to own a Rolls-Royce

    The new Rolls-Royce Ghost embodies what the luxury brand has described as ‘post-opulence’. The most technologically advanced Rolls-Royce yet. Over its ten-year lifespan, which began in 2009, Rolls-Royce’s Ghost car has become the most successful model in the marque’s 116-year history. Built on rigid aluminium Rolls-Royce spaceframe architecture, the new Ghost reflects ‘Post … Read more