Tag: High Jewelry
Nothing is gendered anymore, for the sake of good design: Cartier Libre
Marie-Laure Cérède, Creative Director of Jewelry & Watchmaking and Pierre Rainero, Director of Heritage, Image and converse with Carlo Mazzoni, Editor in Chief, for Lampoon Issue 27
Maria Felix, Cartier, the crocodiles: shall we still understand an aesthetic delirium?
The complexity of a narration between Paris and Mexico,reviewing the twentieth century: notes on aesthetics during a visit to the Cartier exhibition in Mexico City
I coccodrilli di Maria Felix: riusciamo ancora comprendere un delirio estetico?
La complessità di una storia tra Parigi e il Messico, lungo il Novecento, dagli anni Venti ai Sessanta: appunti di estetica visitando la mostra di Cartier a Città del Messico
March 8th – Feminist Surrealism and the art of repurposing: Meret Oppenheim
The exhibition on the Swiss surrealist artist concludes at New York's MoMA. An exhibition that restores dignity to a central female figure in the artistic scene of the twentieth century
Hilary Alexander – Farewell to a force behind fashion journalism
From her early days in New Zealand to becoming a leading voice in the fashion world, Hilary Alexander’s impact on the industry is unmatched like her personality
Paris Couture. Fashion’s return to allegorical storytelling has Schiaparelli to thank for
Schiaparelli 23 Couture is more about three-dimensional sculpting than surrealist motifs. While animal heads stole the show, masculine tailoring marked femininity
Dan Rubinstein illustrates The Grand Tourist: the leading podcast on art and design
The leading podcast on art, design, architecture and luxury told by its creator – design writer Dan Rubinstein – between anecdotes, personal thoughts and insight on the upcoming sixth season
Tobias Birk Nielsen: winning the fashion jungle at the Danish awards
Founded by Tobias Birk Nielsen in Copenhagen, the brand wins the Danish award gaining new international recognition while bringing sustainability to the next level
Paradise Found: An Erotic Treasury for Sybarites, a compendium by Betony Vernon
Vernon's artistic journey ranges from art to activism in the erotic realm: the book enables an exploration of the secrets of pleasure through a pictorial voyage
Hermès Lipsticks – Gregoris Pyrpylis on the way that pigments change
For Autumn 2022, Gregoris Pyrpylis introduced five new additions to the emblematic range in order to surround the central pivot of Rouge H based on «intuition and the need to...
Can a jewel evoke an artwork such as The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini?
Can a jewel evoke an artwork such as The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini? Is it possible for a necklace to replicate fur? What about the crumpled...
Louis Vuitton Spirit High Jewelry – Francesca Amfitheatrof says common stones are boring
«To strive for something that is a bit technically ‘uncomfortable’». Francesca Amfitheatrof and the Spirit high jewelry collection. Louis Vuitton’s most robust endeavor to date
Teasing Lampoon’s newly published Muscles Issue — The Elusive Modernist in conversation with Hamed Khosravi
The lithe social muscle of an early freelancer: «As a reader and later as a writer of his character, it was not difficult to imagine [Gabriel Guevrekian] in Gertrude Stein’s house or in...
Chanel and Kristen Stewart: an attempt to revere cinema is about costume design
Virginie Viard revises Alain Resnais's L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, presenting a short movie starring Kristan Stewart: she becomes the inspiration for the Spring 23 line
Anaglyph prints and dune-filled sceneries: Hermès 23 Spring line requires 3D glasses
Held at the Paris Tennis Club, Hermès Women Ready envelops all the escaping intentions into a spirited outwear reform made out of raincoats and sculpted leather
Fashion in Berlin rediscovers handicrafts and supports Ukraine – a report from 202030 summit
In the Colosseum space Theater in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, the 202030 fashion summit debated regenerative textiles, biodiversity and involved Ukrainian designers. Christiane Arp intervenes
Slow fashion and electronic e-waste – an endeavor towards the jewelry industry
Ashley Heather, founder of AuTerra, walks us through the philosophy behind a model of jewelry production that aims to return to a concept of ‘slow fashion’
Apple Brandy on the Rocks, Kilian. Mr. Hennessy pays homage to the Big Apple
Refillable bottles have been the epitome of Kilian Paris since the beginning. Mr Hennessy is transported to a memory of his grandmother refilling her initial engraved perfume bottle
Garogosi, wearable sculptures leading the way on sustainable practice in jewelry making
Capturing a moment in glacier history: British artist Sevan Garo Nigogosian brings together man and glacier in his one-off wearable sculptures
Botanica, Blue Book – some flora with a focus on transformability- it’s Tiffany
Botanica, Tiffany & Co. 2022 Blue Book, honors Louis Comfort Tiffany’s interest in nature and floral motifs. Showcasing the company's predilection for gemstones and technical proficiency
The trend of the Metaverse: on the proximity of an ethereally fabricated cosmos
Trend Forecaster Lisa White unravels how the Metaverse is about «creating entire universes of products and services» in the eternal quest for tribe belonging
Tackling fashion’s waste problem with compostability – Three students from Central Saint Martins
Three students from Central Saint Martins created a fashion film centering a garment made of paper cups, eggshells and cornstarch - then buried it after filming
Showcasing savoir-faire and craftsmanship, Louis Vuitton perpetuates the traditions of its founder
Up to 300 people working in a single workshop; divided into two areas to encourage a sense of community and the transmission of skills from generation to generation
Embracing technology: the only way to keep hand weaving with the new generation
From Italy to India to Wales. How the culture of hand weaving is undergoing just enough modernization to keep it alive, but not enough to kill the traditional craft completely
Cecilia Accardo – Quartz, synthetic diamonds, and non-mined metals: paving the way to recycled jewelry
Cecilia Accardo and Scéona Poroli-Chauveau: «There is no difference between extracted or non-mined metal in terms of quality». A conversation about the recycled jewelry industry
Fashion is a full spectrum industry: consumers informed: from agriculture to the sales floor – Lampoon, the Transparency issue
To achieve full transparency, brands must be open about their supply chains to keep consumers informed. A dialogue between Eco Age’s founder Livia Firth and Auret Van Heerden
Dot Concept Store, Istanbul. Bringing together over one-hundred Turkish designers under one roof
«A museum-style exhibition place that supports and promotes designers. It makes no sense to me to take money from people that don’t earn». In conversation with Yasemine Aydan
Lab-grown diamonds using three days’ worth of domestic electricity: steps marked by Inbilico
Inbilico’s electricity consumption is equivalent to three days’ worth of domestic electricity use; from renewable sources. At the end of around four weeks, the lab-grown diamonds are ready to be...
Paris Collections, January 2022: The high jewelry market is on a high writes Olivier Dupon
A review with some of the artistic directors and CEOs explains why January presentations in Paris are now as successful as July ones
1920s inspirations bridge the silhouettes and constructivist set design of Chanel’s haute couture
Opened by Charlotte Casiraghi on horseback, Chanel’s haute couture shows Virginie Viard’s own signature while paying homage to the history of the house and the 1920s scene
Sarah Kauffman: upcycling clothing scraps and military parachutes into collections
The American designer works with military parachutes and upcycled fabric scraps: «Parachutes have a story themselves which does not need to be manipulated»
Sauce, Dubai. Online spaces have become rudiment to retail strategy
Growing up in Lebanon during the civil war, co-founder Ghandour’s childhood informs Sauce’s philosophy. «I had to put my battle shoes on when the retail markets changed in Dubai»
Today art has to search within natural science – Giò Pomodoro’s references to astrology
In his sculpture at Taino Park, Giò Pomodoro testifies the intimacy between the contemporary and sculptures; the communities and green spaces, the solstices and sun
Eroticism comes first before the flowers – Mika Ninagawa x Van Cleef & Arpels
Through eroticism, the photographs of women demonstrate playfulness in soft pornography. Then, Mika Ninagawa’s transition to flowers, details, and objects and observations of everyday life
The rise of resale: facing strong platforms, brands invest in internal initiatives
As consumer demand for transparency and traceability increases, fashion brands explore in-house resale initiatives considering new technologies such as NFD and blockchain
A 55.55 carat diamond: the 100th anniversary of N°5 Chanel talking with Patrice Leguéreau
The Director of Chanel’s Fine Jewelry Creation Studio describes the journey that led him to Collection N°5 Grasse, its jasmine and May rose fields, and the pink, red and yellow...
Social, economic, and environmental sustainability – Bvlgari’s Responsibility in Society
Bulgari underscores the essence of culture by advancing female talent, scientists and the youth, fighting the virus and enacting the agenda of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
Amodo, Berlin. The story of two Italian expats unfolds in the store in Mitte district
Berlin’s Gallery Weekend and Art Week are occasions where Mitte bursts with people from around the world. A category of people aligned to Amodo’s ethos
Diamond graders – holding up the stones with Borsalino Diamanti: transparency for 50 years
Where diamonds really come from. Jewelry, family heirlooms but most especially mining, labor, suppliers, diamond graders and manufacturers
Smog Free Tower – Air pollution, a global disaster: to be solved with solar-powered air cleaners
«We should start to see the world; not as a utopia, but as a protopia». In conversation with Daan Roosegaarde, on his 7-meter smog eating tower
Titanium: one of the lightest yet one of the strongest metals used in jewelry
Since the Seventies, titanium has been on a rollercoaster ride throughout the jewelry industry. Its beneficial properties can also act as its downfall
The Four Cs’ of Traceability – Tiffany & Co. tracing a diamond back to the mine
Cut, Colour, Clarity, and Carat: the grading sCut, Color, Clarity, and Carat: the grading system that delineates the quality and price of a given stone. Today, consumers are looking for...
Sophia Wang’s MycoWorks’ Fine Mycelium – presenting their newest innovation: Reishi
Biochemistry into fashion – twenty years of scientific work fostered a mushroom-based, alternative to the fashion industry’s leather-problem. An exposition by CEO and founder Sophia Wang
Is Pandora properly leading the way in affordable, sustainable jewelry?
As the biggest seller of jewelry in the world, Pandora could move the industry forward with its lab-created diamonds
Silver made in Italy – Giovanni Raspini, cerapersa and bronzobianco techniques
Italy hosts a heritage of shaping noble metals that traces back to the 5th century B.C. Its history is a rich one and Giovanni Raspini is proud to honor it...
An accent on Missoni’s heritage: on Ottavio’s centenary, Angela exits creative direction
Ottavio Missoni. The designer’s centenary in an exhibition at MA*GA Museum in Gallarate – the city where Missoni’s history and revolution began
