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21 May

Art Meets Fashion at Akris Exhibition in Zurich

ZURICH — The brand new Akris exhibition at Switzerland’s top design museum is a feast for the eyes and the hands, where visitors can squint at intricately printed sequins, gaze upon dozens of large-scale paintings, photos and sculptures, fondle bolts of woven horsehair, and experience 800-gram cashmere double-face melting on their shoulders. There are even 3D glasses that make Thomas Ruff’s depiction of Martian landscapes come to life on considered one of his arresting photo works — and on a silk Akris raincoat bearing the identical otherworldly topography. While timed to the one hundredth anniversary of the St. Gallen-based fashion house and peppered with historical information, the sprawling display on the Museum für Gestaltung Zurich mostly offers a deep dive into Albert...
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14 May

Lifestyle Meets Cannabis at Concept Store, Gotham – WWD

Think cannabis shop meets Dover Street Market meets Colette Paris, and also you’ve got Gotham, an idea store that opened in Latest York City Thursday.  Founder Joanne Wilson at all times wanted to construct a store that combined product, lifestyle and culture.  “I got here out of the retail world. I got here out of the smartphone world, and so I at all times had this concept for a store, multiple stores over time,” she said, explaining COVID-19 store closures reignited her interest. When a friend called the previous investor of consumer brands like Food52, Parachute and Sweet Loren’s to ask in regards to the cannabis space, Wilson began researching the industry, which she equates to what “the tech business was in 1998,”...
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24 Apr

Bernard Arnault Meets With China’s Minister of Commerce in Paris

LONDON — Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, met with Wang Wentao, China’s minister of commerce, at Dior’s Avenue Montaigne flagship in Paris on Friday, following French President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial visit to China earlier this month. Members of the senior management team at LVMH, including Delphine Arnault, chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture; Pietro Beccari, chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton, and Stéphane Rinderknecht, chairman and CEO of the group’s beauty division, also attended the meeting with Wang, who has been in his current position since December 2020. The corporate, which owns brands including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Sephora and Tiffany & Co., said the meeting between Arnault and Wang highlighted “the sustainable growth of...
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17 Apr

Jill Biden Meets With Japan’s First Lady Yuko Kishida

SIGNS OF SOLIDARITY: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s wife, Yuko Kishida, will likely be welcomed on the White House Monday by First Lady Jill Biden. The private White House luncheon between the 2 wives of world leaders, and a photo-op on the White House grounds later within the afternoon, inevitably will garner more media attention than normal. Kishida’s visit comes just days after her husband was unharmed after a suspect threw an explosive device in his direction during a campaign event Saturday in a Western port city in Japan. After Monday’s tête-à-tête, Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida are expected to plant a cherry tree in a ceremony on the White House South Grounds as a logo of the long-standing friendship between the...
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