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6 Jun

Baccarat Marks 20 Years of Collaboration With Philippe Starck

Baccarat Marks 20 Years of Collaboration With Philippe Starck
FACET TIME: Guests at Baccarat’s dinner Monday night in honor of Philippe Starck sat in a pitch black room while waiters — dressed all in black like ninjas with tiny lamps on their foreheads — scurried from side to side, plucking placement cards, adding candles, wine glasses, vases and long-stemmed roses. Before exiting the room, they rang a small crystal bell with a red pendant clapper to point that the meal was about to start. When the lights got here up, the likes of Farida Khelfa, Emmanuel Perrotin, Elie Top, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Charles de Vilmorin gasped in wonder on the sparkling table setting and the ballroom’s Rococo splendor, its chandeliers duplicated to infinity within the mirrors. Hoisting one in all Starck’s...
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25 May

Daseul Choi Wins Polimoda Competition Think Bag, in Collaboration

Daseul Choi Wins Polimoda Competition Think Bag, in Collaboration
CELEBRATING BAGS: The ultimate event of the Think Bag competition, sponsored by Leather & Luxury magazine and the Florentine leather goods company Loipell, was held Wednesday in Florence on the Villa Favard campus. The competition involved the scholars of the master in bag design on the Florence-based fashion and design institute Polimoda. On this occasion, the Choi Bag by the Korean student Daseul Choi was named the winner of the project.  Choi designed a bag with delicate shapes and an progressive design, in black nappa leather with a steel handle. “For this project I combined my experience in fabrics with a passion for leather and patterns,” said the young designer. “The geometric overlaps of the handle of my bag recall the...
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16 Apr

Destree Unveils Artist Collaboration in Paris

Destree Unveils Artist Collaboration in Paris
ART AND SOUL: There are lots of canvases for creative expression: French accessories and designer Géraldine Guyot and her artist friend Ben Arpéa each used linen in a summer collaboration for her brand Destree. Guyot faithfully reproduced the checkered motifs, potted flowers and sun-baked colours from Arpéa’s paintings, applying them to column dresses with circular cutouts ringing the waist, and her signature puff-sleeved jackets and band-collared shirts. “Destree and my work go thoroughly together,” Arpéa remarked at a cocktail party Thursday night on the Galerie Camille Pouyfaucon, where the artist hung several recent large linen canvases, and Guyot displayed her 10-item collection, dropping next week on Destree’s e-store and in its Paris boutique. It’s plain that the artist and the French entrepreneur, who...
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1 Mar

Lady Gaga Debuts Chapter 2 of Dom Pérignon Collaboration

Lady Gaga Debuts Chapter 2 of Dom Pérignon Collaboration
  Getty Images Strike a pose: Lady Gaga is constant her partnership with Dom Pérignon. Lady Gaga Debuts Chapter The singer and actress began collaborating with the Champagne house in 2021, and now, Dom Pérignon has released a campaign starring Lady Gaga for the brand’s latest creation, Dom Pérignon Vintage 2013. Gaga worked with the brand’s Cellar Master, Vincent Chaperon, to create their collaborative bottle. The bottle drew inspiration from The Abbey Saint-Pierre of d’Hautvillers. Founded within the seventh century, the abbey would come to play a crucial role within the tradition of vine cultivation of wines from the terroirs of Hautvillers, Aÿ, Champilon and Cumières. It was there that Dom Pérignon’s namesake founder, Dom Pierre Pérignon, was named cellarer and procurator of the monastery when...
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