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Visionnaire blurs the lines between art and design

Design Wanted

Meta-luxury brand Visionnaire interrogates the relationship between art and design to create collectible ‘objects of desire’. Form follows function ” goes the old saying, a design directive prioritising an object’s use before any unnecessary decoration. Meta-luxury” brand Visionnaire has taken up this same charge.

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Louis Vuitton picks Pharrell Williams to head menswear designs

Inside Retail

LVMH’s top label Louis Vuitton said on Tuesday it has hired Pharrell Williams to head artistic direction of its menswear designs, tapping a popular figure from the music industry to fill the high-profile position left vacant since the death of star designer Virgil Abloh over a year ago. Writing by Tassilo Hummel.

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Neri&Hu creates "wooden hut" and "cave-dwelling" interiors for Shanghai stores

Dezeen

One was designed for Jisifang Boutique and the other for its sister brand Woven Moonlight, also owned by Jisifang. Neri&Hu has designed two adjacent stores in Shanghai According to the Shanghai-based studio , each store was tailored to its distinct brand identities and varying spatial requirements.

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Emma Lewisham credits her skincare brand’s success to never compromising

Inside Retail

Emma Lewisham, both the founder and the brand, has disrupted the beauty industry since launching in 2019 with a skincare line designed to be sustainable for people and the planet. “I The probiotic unique to the supernatural blemish serum was identified in a swabbing programme back in 2004 and is now patented by Emma Lewisham.

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Flashback: Inside Ginger & Smart’s first ever studio

Inside Retail

Here, sisters and luxury fashion designers Alexandra and Genevieve Smart remember their first ever studio in the well-heeled fashion district of Paddington in Sydney back in 2004, when they had just embarked upon their first ever international order. It was just Alex and I in the business at this time.

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Freitag store in Kyoto is designed to resemble the brand's own warehouse

Dezeen

Hazard lines and metal shelving are some of the industrial finishes that Torafu Architects has included in bag brand Freitag 's store in Kyoto – which even includes its own workshop. The interiors of the store have been designed by Torafu Architects to look like Freitag's logistics warehouse at the brand's headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Neri&Hu highlights simplicity and functionality at Shanghai art gallery

Dezeen

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed a contemporary art gallery for Ota Fine Arts in Shanghai with a focus on the "sublime beauty of the banal". Handmade ivory tiles line the inner side of the window in a subtle woven pattern, serving as a neutral backdrop for the art pieces.

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