Chanel has spent the past eight years turning places from Gabrielle Chanel’s life into perfume. Deauville became citrus and basil, Biarritz a bright marine freshness, Venice neroli and amber. The
Every morning from August to October, pickers in Pégomas gather jasmine by hand for a single client. The partnership between Chanel and the Mul family, sealed in 1987, was designed
For most of the past century, progress meant removing the human hand from the process. Machines made things faster, more precise and easier to reproduce. Now artificial intelligence can generate
At 12,5 microns it is the finest animal fibre on earth. In 1960 there were around 6.000 vicuñas left alive. What happened next is the most successful conservation story in
Charvet invented the shirt shop in 1838 and stayed independent for nearly two centuries, dressing Proust, Churchill and de Gaulle from seven floors on Place Vendôme. In July, Chanel bought
Most clothes are designed for a season. The Burberry trench coat was designed for a war, and it has outlasted everything since. This month, the Victoria and Albert Museum opens a display
Fifteen creative directors began their tenures last September. Spring/Summer 2027 — New York from the 10th, London the 17th, Milan the 22nd, Paris the 28th — is the season where
Quiet luxury defined the last few years of fashion. In 2026, loud luxury is taking its place. After several seasons of camel coats, soft tailoring and logos so discreet they
Every few decades, jewellery falls back in love with ancient Egypt. It happened in the 1920s, after Howard Carter pulled back a stone door and found Tutankhamun’s tomb untouched for three thousand years. It happened again in the 1970s,
A chest canvas hand-padded with hundreds of stitches, against a jacket light enough to fold eight times. The division between Savile Row and Naples is not about clothes — it
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