Lifestyle & Design
In our style and design magazine, stories are told of well-designed sneakers, luggage, clutches, Interiors, scented candles and Architecture.
I came to backgammon recently, though the game itself has been around for millennia, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia. A friend invited me to play a few times, and I found myself drawn in, not just to the rattle of the dice or the race of the checkers across the board, but to the atmosphere it creates.
Miyake may have passed in 2022, but his thinking feels more alive than ever. Under the creative direction of Satoshi Kondo, the Homme Plissé team continues not by imitation, but by carrying forward Miyake’s questions: What is clothing in a changing world? How can fabric enable movement – physical, social, and emotional?
On a yacht, moored in the marina in Monaco, the German technology house Loewe and New York jeweller Jacob & Co. unveiled a pair of headphones that resist easy categorisation. They are not quite consumer electronics; they are not quite jewellery; and they are not quite sculpture. Somehow, they are all three.




