Entries Tagged 'Luxury' ↓

Now really, if Chanel can do it, than surely Mercedes-Benz will come up with a riding solution to upscale the bicycle riding as we know it.
This must be one of those industrial clever schemes to drawn profit from under every rock, no matter how economically unstable it really is! Mercedes-Benz The Trailblazer is a foldable, [...]

Special collaborations call for special celebrations! Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton fete six years of fruitful collaboration. A special movie was made: the Superflat First Love manga anime (remember Superflat Monogram?) in which we find out that the young Louis Vuitton was time traveled by a Murakami representation and an asian schoolgirl with a camera [...]

Behold, there goes Brad Pitt shopping for some serious art items! After last’s year art-pitt-interrogation, now I’m left puzzling about his newest addition: a 1998 painting worth $1 Million he bought from the Art Basel in Switzerland!
The 9 foot racetrack painting by Neo Rauch is an oil-image of a Formula one race car with the [...]

Recession, what? Hermès challenges the young designers for $4,000-worth first prize while they’ve initiated a breeding crocodiles campaign in Australian farms. Because it’s really hard to make 3,000 crocodile bags/year (it takes 4 crocodiles per handbag), bags that end up costing around $48,000/piece!
Let’s see: that’s about $144,000,000/year in crocodile bags and just $4,000 for a [...]

We live in hard fashion times! Hermès just launched a graphic design competition with Designboom.
Opening up to new prints and ideas is an incredible opportunity for new designers but also a popular maneuver from the French luxury house. With a given theme (animals, flowers, geometric design, horses, marine life) and silk as canvas, the contests’ [...]

Designers team up for noble causes. Jimmy Choo has formed an artistic allegiance with Elton John Foundation against AIDS.
Together they issued a collection that will be included in Jimmy Choo’s next catalogue. The collection glams up from flip flops to more exclusive pieces, everything spiced in the most amazing mixed prints you could come [...]

Christian Lacroix’ style may be incredible, but that much mixing touches even the master! Reportedly selling zero clothing articles this year, the prestigious House of Lacroix just filed for bankruptcy, filing $14 Million financial loss in 2008. Is that the end for Christian Lacroix Couture house? the first to hit the crisis-dust? Let us hope [...]

I really was a fan of Hermes Kelly 2 wristwatches. Simple, elegant, the double wrap strap had that je-ne-sais-quoi that caught my watch-eye indefinitely. (actually, price-definitely – I wouldn’t spend $1,400 on a watch!) Now, however, things have changed. There’s a three-wrap strap watch available now. From Burberry.
The only downside is that it’s for men. [...]