Open Doors, Smaller Doors: Reading LVMH’s Weekend of Craft

For three days in October the world’s largest luxury group let strangers into its workshops. Here is what changed, who got in, and why it matters. Every so often luxury does something delightfully counterintuitive: it gives away what it normally guards. From October 16 to 18, LVMH, the group behind Louis Vuitton, Dior, Moët & … Read more

This New Hermès Workshop in France Is Quietly Sending a Message To Every Other Luxury House On Earth

Hermès Opens Its 25th Leather Workshop in France — And It’s a Quiet Revolution Hidden in Plain Sight The luxury giant just inaugurated a new atelier in Loupes, Gironde, creating 260 artisan jobs, planting a timber-framed building in a forest, and — perhaps more quietly — sending a message to every other luxury house on … Read more