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What do you get when you take a 35-year old Italo-Belgian who honed his skills under Karl Lagerfeld at Fendi, before launching his eponymous label two years later, and who then worked for three years with Donatella Versace before being made creative director of Versace’s Versus label, and who has…
Inflation, salaries, property maintenance, upgrades, introducing new curricula, let’s be honest, running an institute of higher education is very expensive. You can turn to tuition fees and alumni associations, revenues from intellectual properties and, if you have a healthcare arm, hospitalizations. But tuition can only be raised so high before…
Collections are for the masses. True luxury is all about a personal experience: having something tailored just for you, customised according to your posture, the unique slope of your shoulders, and your preference for subtle pinstripe that’s just so. It’s about a suit that’s been given the seal of approval…
Launched seven years ago by French designer Alexandre Matiussi, Ami is suddenly everywhere you look. From Bergdof Goodman to Mr. Porter, on the cover of American GQ – as worn by Stranger Things’ Joe Keery, and on Jay-Z and Beyoncé in between, the French label is spreading like wildfire. “It’s…
If redefining what’s cool is the key to success, then Valérie Messika, the founder and creative director of Messika, is certainly on a roll. She first re-wrote the diamond codes just over a decade ago when she launched Move, a collection of fine jewellery featuring diamonds that slid back and…
Supreme’s 50 per cent sale to Carlyle Group didn’t just represent a rags to riches story of a NY skateshop capitalising on anti-capitalism, it constituted the first ever investment by a large private equity firm in a streetwear brand. When James Jebbia founded Supreme in the SoHo neighbourhood of New…
Najeeba Hayat is the Kuwaiti creative behind Liudmila, a Milan-based brand of shoes that’s gaining worldwide traction for beautifully handmade products that are as quirky as they are magical. YOU’VE BEEN MAKING SHOES SINCE 2013, AND IN THAT PERIOD YOU’VE SAID YOUR CREATIVITY COMES FROM A NAÏVE PLACE, WHEN YOU’RE…
The port city of Jeddah, located on the shores of the Red Sea in western Saudi Arabia, is home to some of the country’s most spectacularly designed homes. But since virtually all of these extraordinary houses are hidden behind walls – privacy is of the utmost importance in the Kingdom…
If you happened to be looking for a rock archetype you’d be hard pressed to find a better specimen than Faris Badwan. The lead singer of hard-to-describe British five-piece The Horrors, is a sort of Gothic Mick Jagger with more swagger – tall, thin, a big mop of black hair…