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At Salone, Design Spectacle Takes Centre Stage

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Dan Thawley

MILAN — Thai sausage canapes and Teller negronis at T Magazine’s Villa Necchi bash or a perfect albino strawberry at a quiet presentation by The Row? Pick your poison. Brands and the top clients they love to court flocked to this year’s Milan Design Week, despite the downturn in global luxury sales and the spectre of Trump’s trade war.
How to Sell Jewellery Like Fine Art

Nov 25, 2024 | businessoffashion.com | Dan Thawley

MONACO – As industry players continue to grapple with the meaning of luxury — looking for a way forward amid saturation and homogeneity on a global scale — niche jewellery designers and iconic dealers banded together in Monaco to offer avant-garde alternatives, vintage treasures and a cultural point-of-view.
In Paris, Fashion Is Betting on Art Basel’s Big Bang

Oct 18, 2024 | businessoffashion.com | Dan Thawley

PARIS – A month after the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, and barely a fortnight after the Paris women’s season, the city has once again geared into hyperdrive: France’s biggest art fair returned to the newly-renovated Grand Palais for the first time since 2019, rebranded and reborn as the first-ever Art Basel Paris.
Postcard from Paris Design Week 2024

Sep 14, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Dan Thawley

As the itinerant decadence of another European summer wanes and the French reluctantly return to work for the optimistic annual reset they call la rentrée, Paris Design Week 2024 (5 – 14 September)unfolded in the city of light amidst the final days of the 2024 Olympic (and Paralympic) fervour.
Ellery's Retro-Futurist Girls

Jul 3, 2024 | businessoffashion.com | Dan Thawley

PARIS, France — The idea of a 'digital fashion show' is nothing new, but as Kym Ellery explained at her static presentation-cum-cocktail in her showroom's gilded Paris HQ, it is a democratiser. "No front row, no editors hierarchy — we released the film online at the same time as the event," said Ellery, who's boyfriend Max Sokolinski jammed in an adjoining room.
Family Style - Chez Lamy

Jun 18, 2024 | family.style | Dan Thawley |Sophia Roe |Ann Binlot |Nathan Klein

The French polymath Michèle Lamy and her daughter, the artist Scarlett Rouge, are two free yet interconnected spirits who navigate this mortal coil with an innate lightness. Without pretense, they preach a sort of detachment from mediocrity that I’ve appreciated since meeting them over a decade ago.
How Photography Influenced Duro Olowu’s Life in Fashion

Jun 4, 2024 | aperture.org | Dan Thawley

The former lawyer turned designer Duro Olowu creates fashion moments on a resolutely human scale. Born in Lagos into a Nigerian Jamaican family, Olowu had a cosmopolitan upbringing, traveling to Europe and absorbing cultural influences ranging from album covers to Yves Saint Laurent. His tenacious curiosity, like his patternmaking, seems limitless—and his deep knowledge of photography has informed his fashion line.
IN MINORCA, CHILLIDA'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH LIGHT

Jun 3, 2024 | flash---art.com | Dan Thawley

The bright Mediterranean light has enchanted many an artist, and not least the great Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) – who in his later years descended upon the island of Minorca with his wife Pilar and 8 children for summers spent working and playing in the Balearic sun. There, people speak of ‘the light’ as a material aspect of everyday life, just as one might speak of traffic in the city.
In Minorca, A Sculptor's Love Affair with Light

May 24, 2024 | flash---art.com | Dan Thawley

The bright Mediterranean light has enchanted many an artist, and not least the great Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) – who in his later years descended upon the island of Minorca with his wife Pilar and 8 children for summers spent working and playing in the Balearic sun. There, people speak of ‘the light’ as a material aspect of everyday life, just as one might speak of traffic in the city.
Fashion and Design Collide at Salone Del Mobile

Apr 17, 2024 | businessoffashion.com | Dan Thawley

MILAN — This year’s Salone del Mobile — the monumental design fair ending Sunday in Milan — features nearly 2,000 design companies and is set to welcome over 300,000 visitors, including design professionals, retailers, press and wealthy clients. But for fashion brands, the action happens “fuori-Salone,” where the number of satellite events around the city including exhibitions, smaller fairs and brand activations has grown to new proportions in recent years.