Landmark agreement between the luxury group home to some of the world’s most desired luxury brands and Alibaba

Kering Luxury Group and Alibaba Group Agree to Cooperate in Protection of Intellectual Property and Joint Enforcement. Kering Luxury Group is taking proactive measures and using advanced technology to help law enforcement bodies and other relevant authorities to address the challenges of intellectual property infringement. The luxury group owner of some of the world’s most … Read more

Kering x Maison Cartier launch eyewear

Kering Eyewear will integrate the Manufacture Cartier Lunettes plant in Sucy-en-Brie, France. Kering Eyewear, part of Kering global Luxury group, and the Maison Cartier, owned by Compagnie Financière Richemont, announced a joint project in the eyewear segment. The partnership will create a platform for the development, manufacturing and worldwide distribution of the Cartier eyewear collection. Founded … Read more

Kering fostering young talent at 3rd “Empowering Imagination” competition

3rd “Empowering Imagination” competition announced by Parsons The New School for Design and Kering. Parsons The New School for Design and Kering luxury group have announced the third annual “Empowering Imagination” competition, which provides graduating Parsons BFA Fashion Design students the opportunity to earn an internship within one of Kering’s 22 luxury and sport & lifestyle … Read more

It’s time for pop-up shops. Angry bunny at McQ Alexander McQueen pop-up store

Alexander McQueen’s diffusion line McQ became one of the most desirable on the fashion planet. McQueen’s bemusing bunny costume from late founder McQueen’s Spring 2009 show was the primary source of inspiration for Creative Director Sarah Burton in McQ’s Spring Summer 2014 collection. A McQ’s must-have motifs of the season, the caustic sinister print for … Read more

François Pianult’s third cultural project in Venice

Teatrino at Palazzo Grassi by Tadao Ando. A contemporary arts centre inside an eighteenth-century palace in Venice.     After the restoration of Palazzo Grassi in 2006, followed by that of Punta della Dogana in 2009, the rehabilitation of the Teatrino in 2013 marks the third step of French luxury goods magnate François Pinault’s cultural project … Read more

Sweet Alexander McQueen Spring 2013 Campaign

Cages, corsets and crinolines in various incarnations, the sculpted shapes of Alexander McQueen’s 2013 Spring Summer pieces are put in value with honey. British photographer David Sims lensed Brazilian model Raquel Zimmermann poured with honey for the new ad campaign. The spring 2013 visual for Alexander McQueen is inspired by the runway show’s beekeeper theme and … Read more