Lukas Wassmann

Jun 28, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Emilia Petrarca |Lukas Wassmann |Edward Bowleg III

Zankov, in his own designs. When Henry Zankov was a child, he set up a make-believe clothing store in his bedroom. “I would say to my brother, ‘What would you like to buy today?’ ” he recalls, laughing. “I would sketch designs, and I even had a catalog. It was crazy but sweet.”Zankov, who is now 43, has made his younger self proud. We’re sitting in his apartment, in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood, surrounded by racks of colorful clothing guarded closely by his Scottish Terrier, Georgina.

Oct 15, 2023 | wsj.com | Nick Kostov |Lukas Wassmann

Jean Arnault was standing in a gilded, mirrored room of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay showing off Louis Vuitton’s newest watch model to a clutch of experts one July morning. The thin unisex watch, named the Tambour, was the result of almost two years of work. But the most valuable Tambour in the building wasn’t on display with the others. It was on Arnault’s wrist. His version was made of a rare metal, tantalum. “We’re only going to make one,” Arnault said. “That’s it.