Aston Martin commemorated its 75th anniversary in the Americas earlier this week at Monterey Car Week 2025, a diamond jubilee that signifies the British brand’s ongoing passion for the New World. The luxury motoring company observed a masterclass in how to pay homage to its legacy while moving forward towards its next chapter, from the…
As one of the world’s largest producers of Scotch whisky, Diageo holds an unrivalled array of whiskies in its portfolio. One of the most notable labels is none other than Johnnie Walker, the best-selling whisky brand globally, with 22.7 million 9-litre cases sold in 2022. Creating whisky that caters to mainstream taste is not Diageo’s…
What happens when one brings together Scotland’s most storied whisky houses with a creative force of Parisian couture? The answer is “Couture Expression”, a first-of-its-kind collaboration that sees Johnnie Walker Vault’s partner with Olivier Rousteing — the visionary creative director of Balmain — in a pursuit to reimagine whisky as more than a spirit. Rousteing…
At this year’s Watches and Wonders, Jaeger-LeCoultre pulled out all the stops for its homage to its polo origins. It’s booth—the 1931 Polo Club—is an immersive three-storey space that reinterprets horse stables, but it feels more like a museum, a temple of tribute to its enduring icon, the Reverso. Know Your History We know the story…
Watches and Wonders Geneva (WWG) gets a little bigger every year, and so does the star power of the new releases, it seems. If that was the main news from April, we would have been completely upbeat about the year ahead, but alas, it was not. Even if we consider the broader Geneva watch week,…
The Untitled Space is presenting “TRANSHUMANISM”, a solo virtual exhibition by contemporary artist Joanna Grochowska, on view from 30 July until 31 October 2025 via Artsy and Kunstmatrix. Curated by Indira Cesarine, the show marks Grochowska’s first solo collaboration with the gallery and forms part of her ongoing project “Opening the Future”, first introduced in…
If you are going to celebrate a birthday, do it right. No, not with cupcakes in your kitchen or a bottomless brunch with overly enthusiastic mimosas. I mean properly. As in: Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Lake Como. A hotel so unapologetically opulent, so cinematically positioned, and so unapologetically Italian that even your most…
Absolute will stage the world premieres of the Navetta 62 and 70 Fly (click for news) at this year’s Cannes Yachting Festival (September 9-14). While the 70 Fly is the new flagship of the Flybridge planing series, the Navetta 62 joins the Italian shipyard’s Navetta series of high-volume semi-displacement flybridge models. The two global debuts are part of…
Kimono coat, jumpsuit, mask and earrings, DIOR MEN(ALFREDO PIOLA) There was mystery from the very first look in the Dior Men Winter 2025 runway show. Dressed entirely in black—turtleneck worn with trousers constructed with draped precision—the model appeared to be blindfolded with a satin bow to the side. The bow turned out to be a recurring…
Before midnight, in the dark. You can hear the hum of the air-conditioning, the soft rustle of the duvet rubbing against human skin. Through a stretched window, you can see the moonlit cubic outlines of buildings. And standing like a colossus at akimbo, the red-hot Tokyo Tower, aglow. Toranomon is located in the business district of…