The Olympic games may or may not be the most watched sporting event in the world right now, but at Omega, that is of no importance. For the Swiss horologie brand, it is the event that offers the perfect canvas for the design and launch of collectible timepieces perfect for every activity, from sp…
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Caroline’s Couture V2.0: Chopard is Now a full-blown Fashion Brand
Haute joaillerie and haute couture. Sounds like a natural combination, right? Yet, many established luxury brands find it next to impossible to pivot successfully into a new niche apart from the one(s) everyone has come to associate them with. Which is why the second instalment of Caroline’s Cout…
The New Cartier Libre Polymorph Collection is Creative … and Very Cheeky
Big brands may not be everyone’s idea of luxury, but no one can deny the quality of their products. Thus, when one such, like Cartier, announces a new collection, it is nearly impossible to look away. Which is why we have our gaze on the new Cartier Libre Polymorph collection. The creativit…
The Row’s Margaux Tote May Be Just as Beloved as The Birkin, But…
Ever heard of The Row’s Margaux tote? Of course you have! But if you haven’t, then consider this your basic introduction to a bag that may rival the Birkin in status years from now. Ask Google, and you’ll quickly realise that everyone has an opinion on what makes a bag a true luxury item an…
Swatch is Building a New Kind of Timepiece Collector
Swatch has a new collaboration out; this time, with Swiss dive timepiece experts, Blancpain. This second partnership with a luxury brand on a legacy model has birthed the Bioceramic Scuba Fifty Fathoms collection consisting of five designs, each paying homage to the five oceans and the creatures …
Here’s Why Owning a Luxury Timepiece Now is More Challenging than Ever
These are not great times for luxury timepieces, if the recently released research from luxury pre-owned watch specialists, Watchfinder & Co, is anything to go by. Not only has it reported that counterfeits in circulation in the UK have surpassed one million, but its research has also reveale…
Luxury Fashion is Finding New and Exciting Expressions
Do you remember the year Coco Chanel started wearing and designing pants for women in the early 20th century, causing high society to clutch their pearls and gasp in collective horror at such audacious vulgarity? Or, when in 1947, Christian Dior threw this same class into further distress by debu…
OSalu Couture and Ethnic Attitude bring African Fashion to Life on Dubai Catwalk
For African immigrants, finding African influences in food, fashion and other cultural aspects in the diaspora can be a very difficult task, a situation that is not replicated in most African countries. A good number are trying to change this narrative wherever they find themselves, like Damilola…
This 2023, Rolex has crafted a Timepiece Specially for You
If you’ve ever gone, ‘Nah; a Rolex isn’t for me’, there are definitely reasons for that, some of which may be that the complication of a Cosmograph Daytona is … just too complicated. Or that the ‘tool-siness’ of the Yachtmaster, Submariner and other tool watches in its lineup are … well, too tool…
Uncovering Bulgari’s Mastery of Colourful High Jewellery
Like art, colours play an important role in jewellery making. But unlike art, incorporating colours in high jewellery is not as easy as brands like Bulgari have made it out to look. The primary source of colours in jewellery is gemstones, but unless you’re glueing them on top of each other or som…