In 1953, Marilyn Monroe sang “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” A lot has changed and evolved since then — and while precious stones have lost little if any of their sparkle, in recent times, luxury watches have put up an exciting fight for the love, affection, and attention of women. Here are some of our favorite luxury timepieces for you that succeeded.
A micro-hotel within a factory, a grand courtyard inside a storied Milanese building: this is the Mua Mua Hotel, a project from Tom Dixon's Design Research Studio. Born as a temporary showcase for Dixon's collections during Milan Design Week, it has since opened its doors as a permanent hotel.
Purroy represents something important in contemporary tile design. She is multidisciplinary by necessity and conviction, committed to keeping centuries-old ceramic craftsmanship in dialogue with modern digital techniques. For Purroy, luxury means care, not cost, and that conviction runs through every firing, every layer of gold, every surface that leaves her studio.
The new 101 Secrets is built around a rather elegant refusal to show off the one thing a watch is supposed to show. Time, kept quietly. Jaeger-LeCoultre has been doing that for nearly a century, and it still does it better than most. We love it because, for once, the bracelet is the point and the watch is the reward.
What connects all of these estates isn't a single architectural language or a wine style. It's a shared conviction: that the place where wine is made and experienced should tell the same story as what ends up in the bottle. At the best ones, the building, the landscape, and the glass feel like three chapters of the same thing.
Beyza Özler is Berlin's Kilim Queen: travelling all around Turkey, she collects vintage kilims that she restores and sells in her Berlin shop.
The Italian capital has it all: history, as it has been the cradle of an empire, fashion, as it is home to leading clothing brands, and art, as you can find from the most classic to the most innovative pieces. Rome is waiting for us to fall in love.
Led by Mike Veale, the Global Conservation Force runs one of the most demanding ranger training programmes in the world. Four spots per year are open to non-Africans. I applied. I wasn’t sure I would make it.
Antoine Musy took a break from his wild and wonderful adventures to speak with us about his incredible career—and, more importantly, to explain what to do when locked eye-to-eye with a gorilla in the jungle.
Lardini’s story starts in 1978 in Filottrano, a small town near Ancona. Luigi, Andrea, and Lorena Lardini were barely out of their teens when they took over their father’s tailoring business and, step by step, shaped it into something of their own. It was a moment when Italian fashion was gaining global momentum, but their route didn’t begin on a catwalk. It began in the workroom.
Zimmermann is bigger now, more professional, more global. And yet the clothes never feel anonymous. Every dress still carries something of that Sydney garage within it, the pleasure of making things yourself, the view out toward the Pacific. Perhaps that's undoubtedly where the secret lies. Zimmermann doesn't design passing trends. It designs timeless summers, always new, always different, and always unmistakably itself.
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