Chiara Rimella

1 month ago | wsj.com | Chiara Rimella |Jordan Mixon

How the beefy, black frames by Jacques Marie Mage—which can cost four figures—became a draw for wealthy, stylish guys…and a coded way to telegraph membership in an exclusive club | Photographs by Elizabeth Coetzee/WSJ; Prop Styling by Jordan Mixon Style consultant Andrew Weitz likens buying the bold, $1,000-ish glasses by Los Angeles brand Jacques Marie Mage to collecting luxury watches and fine wine. The common thread: associations with status. “These are top of the line.

Jan 16, 2025 | onofficemagazine.com | Chiara Rimella

Lisbon’s buzzing hospitality scene welcomes Locke de Santa Joana, an aparthotel that masterfully blends the old with the newThese days most refits of historical properties will seek to be respectful of its bones, but not all projects are blessed with the amount of original details to merit the opening of an onsite museum too.

Jan 19, 2024 | wsj.com | Chiara Rimella

WHENEVER Michael Kahler, a stylish Brooklyn realtor, pops on his black sunglasses by Japanese brand Eyevan, “I transform into a different version of me,” he said. “I feel younger, hipper, [more] rock ’n’ roll.” Kahler, 37, sports the brand’s Havana frames, a gift from his girlfriend, on weekends, when he dresses more edgily. Purple lenses ensure a certain élan, but what gives his frames an extra kick of cool is the way they flare up and out, slightly, at the top corners. They are cat-eye glasses.