April 22, 2024 |
TEN CRAVES IS OUR ONLINE SERIES THAT ROUNDS UP ALL THE BEST PRODUCT LAUNCHES AND MUST-KNOW FASHION HAPPENINGS WEEK IN, WEEK OUT.
Set your style to Louis Vuitton Flight Mode
Set your style to Flight Mode with Louis Vuitton’s new airport ready collection. The capsule, comprised of ready-to-wear, travel leather goods, shoes and accessories, offers an elevated approach to the necessary comfort of travel outfits, whilst simultaneously paying homage to the maison’s heritage through the vibrant motif of the Élysée Palace. The vintage-style travel patches that thread through each piece of the collection – whether that’s popping up directly on the monogram canvas across bags like the Side Trunk, or on coordinated tracksuit ensembles – are a tribute to the first Parisian luxury hotel at 103 avenue Champs-Élysées – a landmark location where Louis Vuitton is set to establish a new, yet-to-be-announced project. Whether it’s a single item or an entire trousseau, Flight Mode imagines endless possibilities for travelling in style, wherever the destination. Get ready to jet set here.
Perfumer H Steps Into Spring
Perfumer H has bottled up the fresh fragrance of spring with its new eau de parfum, Dandelion, which launched across the globe just yesterday. Optimistic and untamed, the scent captures memories of founder Lyn Harris’s childhood – think long afternoons outdoors in the sun – transporting us, like a dandelion tuft in the wind, to a place of youthful possibility. The typical modern fern fragrance of basil and Italian mint leaf – a must have for the changing seasons – is softened by the dreamy depths of sandalwood and refreshed by top notes of Sicilian lemon, Tunisian orange flower and Italian mandarin. Delectable!
Dandelion is accompanied by a hand-crafted Dandelion Tea blended with jasmine green tea and matcha in collaboration with Tim D’Offay of Postcard Teas, London, who carefully selected rare varieties from small tea growers around the world. Afternoon tea in sun here we come! Shop here.
Guess Jeans’ Coachella Takeover
Guess returns to the desert for the third consecutive year bringing contemporary values and vision to the heat of the southern California music festival. The Guess oasis compound, curated by Nicolai Marciano, transforms a cluster of desert homes into a haven for all our favourite talent. With private chefs, wellness treatments and an infamous after party, Guess Jeans has become a Coachella staple that everyone wants an invite for. Click here to discover more.
Valentino’s New Abode
Retail shopping, private fitting or our new home? As Valentino opens the doors to its new Sloane Street flagship store in London, its four floors offer a unique and intimate experience for everyone from private clients to walk in customers, immersing them in the distinctive visual narrative of Valentino as they shop. The flagship store, constructed in a traditional white stone with two full floor to ceiling windows, offers a glimpse from street level into the ready-to-wear displays and ground floor’s iconic chequered motif in nero and Botticino marbles, setting the iconic chromatic tone for the space.
Become immersed in the Maison’s distinctive visual codes as you pass between ivory wall coverings, leading you to distinctive areas dedicated to accessories on backlit black marble displays. The fourth floor, dedicated to private clients, explores the rich Valentino red in all its glory, with red carpets reflecting off the mirrored walls and ceilings; a nod to London’s 1970s interior design movements whilst enhancing a feeling of intimacy and exclusivity.
Clients are really at the heart of this intimate redesign, inspired by Italian hospitality and the Maison’s iconic codes. The Valentino Sloane Street store is a brand new home away from home.
Barry Reigate’s Centrepoint x Bomb Factory Art Foundation Residency
The first ever collaboration between Centrepoint and the Bomb Factory Art Foundation wasn’t one to miss. The vibrant collection of colours and abstract forms, inspired by pop-culture imagery and cartoons, lit up the Bomb Factory’s Holborn Gallery over the weekend with the exhibition and artworks will be available for purchase raising money for both Centrepoint, the leading charity for homeless young people aged 16-25, and The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, who is committed to promoting inclusivity and accessibility in the art world. With an alarming 136,000 young people experiencing homelessness last year, according to Centrepoint, the series of art workshops, lead by renowned artist Barry Reigate, could not have come at a better time for young people to explore their imaginative expression.
The exhibition is open from Thursday, April 19 and closed April 21, celebrating the resilience and artistic talents of those individuals. To discover more click here.
Get Your ‘JC’ Game On With Malbon Golf
From course to clubhouse, the Jimmy Choo x Malbon Golf sport inspired capsule merges high glamour and heavy swing mastery to create a hole-in-one victory collection. Spanning everything from slip-on mules crafted in JC monogram denim, to a limited-edition high-spec golf bag, each piece speaks to the democratisation and evolution of golf in a polished Jimmy Choo kind of way.
A highlight from the collection is the Diamon Golf trainer which combines statement sporting features, such as a sleek build with smooth leather uppers and textured diamond glam cleats. Embroidered patches and encrusted crystals meet high-performance sport, fusing fashions in such a playfully glamorous style. Pun intended, this collection really knocks it out of the park. Shop here.
Jean Paul Gaultier Is Teaming Up With Shayne Oliver
Jean Paul Gaultier loves a good collab. Next up on its roster is Hood By Air and Anonymous Club founder Shayne Oliver whose been tasked with designing a collection that he’s dubbed ‘GLTR Sportswear’. Unlike the extravagant gowns of the Met Gala, which will take place May 6 this year – the same day the collection drops – the duo isn’t looking to create one-time-wear couture, but rather, a ready-to-wear capsule for the modern everyday wardrobe. Comprising around 50 pieces, the garments will critique common clothes of our day fusing high fashion and streetwear, recalling ’90s French fashion punctuated with modern principles of femininity and power. This will include bumsters, gauzy goodies, wide-leg denim and the imaginary logos of GLTR Sportswear. The collection will interrogate and critique modern fashion codes to create looks you can wear from red carpet to your post glam unwind.
Corbin Shaw’s Fred Perry Capsule
Whether you’re leaving school or wearing aftershave for the first time, the Corbin Shaw x Fred Perry collection narrates the complexities of masculine youth in all its forms through the looking glass lens of Shaw’s Sheffield upbringing.
For him, “Fred Perry is the one brand that feels truly a part of my growing up” according to the Fred Perry website, and so his designs, which explore the rites and rituals of British youth, feel perfectly paired with the renowned polo.
The navy ‘Dear Sheffield Shirt’ captures that confusion of first love through its combination of typefaces. From the romantic love poem scrawled across the left arm and back, to the bold type face on the front of the shirt, the piece snares that soppy vulnerability we all try to hide. Whilst the ‘Ash Blue Leavers Shirt’ recalls the excitement of the last day of school with signatures scribbled across what looks like any old favourite sports jersey.
Side by side, the pieces feel like a pair of siblings and seem to capture the intricacies and freedom of youth, whilst staying true to the landmark polo – perfect for tapping into your inner child or for heading out on the town. Shop here.
Byredo’s Mineral Makeup
As festival season kicks off Lucia Pica has our luminescent glam sorted with a trio of new additions to the Byredo Makeup collection. Featuring two limited-edition pieces, the must-have Mineralscapes Eyeshadow Palette and the Liquid Lipstick Vinyl in Frozen Memo, the offering also marks the new Ultra-Definer Brow Pencil’s instalment as a permanent part of the brands’s catalogue, available in five fresh shades.
The collection is inspired by the serenity of nature, formulated around neutral colours that work with every season. One such colour story shines through the 18 ultra luminous shades within the Mineralscapes eye palette, ranging between solid mattes, shimmers and metallic finishes, offering endless possibilities for self-expression. Whilst the new liquid lipstick in Frozen Memo radiates a mineral light green glow with subtle gold pearls for an extra shine. Both products are praised for their long lasting and soft blends, so not only will you be looking good, but your skin will be feeling good too.
To finish off the look the Ultra-Definer Brow Pencil pairs a creamy, powdery texture with a new ultra-thin tip allowing you to fill and shape the eyebrows with precision. Whether it’s full-on show-stopping glam or no make-up makeup, Byredo has got something for every season. Shop here.
