Could there be anything more LOVE-able than this mind-bogging sculpture, created by Leïla Menchari, the artisan behind the windows of Hermès’ Faubourg Saint-Honoré store (and a few of their scarves for good measure)? Named ‘Zouzou’ and originally featured in those store windows, the rhino is ensconced at the opening of the Leather Forever exhibition – [...]

LACOSTE L!VE enlists the help of illustrator Micah Lidberg (of Kansas City, Missouri) to L!VE-en up their trademark polos for Autumn/Winter 2012. It’s ironic that its a winter collection given that Lidberg’s prints pop with summery colour in trademark cartoonish depictions of dinosaurs, crocodiles and lush tropical greenery Read the original … Micah Lidberg x LACOSTE [...]

Following the death of Donna Summer last week, LOVE asked Fabrizio Viti – Louis Vuitton’s Shoe Style Director and major-league Donna Summer fan – to give us his top ten tracks in tribute to the late queen of disco. Here’s Fabrizio’s own ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation listing, alongside his own memories of Donna… 10 Read the [...]

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 There’s nothing Brits like more than frocking up royally – hence the fact a dozen London collections end with a roster of knock-em-dead evening dresses (crinolines optional, but preferred).

Read the original … Having a Ball(gown)

Image by Laziz Hamani © Cartier 2012 Aldo Chipuro was a legendary jewellery designer who spent five years in the Seventies making key innovations at Cartier. One of his best loved, and most widely imitated creations was the Juste Une Clou line, which launched in 1971. Juste Une Clou translates as just a nail, which [...]

Personally, I find the peeping-eye heart logo of the Comme des Garçons PLAY range mildly terrifying, redolent as it is of the Vermicious Knids in Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka and the Great Glass Elevator (a fine work of fiction if you’ve never had the pleasure of reading it). But I am in the minority: hence [...]

Louis XIV built Versailles to assert his might. Simple as. For good measure he threw Nicolas Fouquet, his Superintendent of Finances, in prison due at least in part to the splendour of his chateau, Vaux-le-Vicomte (an early forerunner of Versailles).

Read the original … Chanel Croisière

After the first (rapidly fading) glimmer of London summer over the weekend, the last thing any Brit wants to think about is winter. But, if you’re going to muse over snow-dusted mountaintops you may as well do it in style – and it rarely gets more stylish than Moncler. Read the original … MON DIEU, MONCLER! [...]

By Dennis Morris’ own admission, his images are more famous than his name. But Morris prefers to let his work do the talking – hence the reason his discussion at Soho members club Apartment 58 on Friday was quite so exceptional. This was the first time Morris had talked a public audience through the creation [...]

Impossible Conversations is definitely my topic of conversation for the week – especially with the news that, very soon, you’ll be able to buy not only new Prada but new Schiaparelli, given that Tod’s chief exec Diego della Valle announced that the label shuttered by Elsa ‘Schiap’ back in the fifties will relaunch next year. [...]

Ossie Clark, Aeroplane, 1969 To say that photographer and filmmaker Jim Lee has lived a full life is an understatement. He shot seminal pop-rock bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who during the sixties. He created daring and often controversial campaigns for clients like Ossie Clark, Yves Saint Laurent and Gianni Versace [...]

It’s getting harder and harder to avoid Prada – not that you’d ever want to do anything of the sort. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute ball was awash with Miuccia’s finest on both mannequins and attendees, but what better way is there to celebrate Prada old than with some Prada new? The [...]

The title of Dior’s latest handbag – Diorissimo – is filched from the house’s lily of the valley-heavy perfume, a five-decades-old best-seller. That’s a neat tie-in of the label’s equally-lucrative accessory and perfume lines, but it also underlines this bag’s starting point in the house’s hallowed history of mid-century couture Read the original … [...]

In addition to having a Welsh mountain named after him (well, ish) and being former brother-in-law of her right royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, is a world-renowned and terribly acclaimed photographer. Everything from the expansive and expensive haute couture of the fifties, to the burgeoning sixties London [...]

Just in time for the opening of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Italian fashion extravaganza Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversation s tomorrow, the latter label’s latest offering is unveiled. Maybe Mrs Prada was inspired by the pending trip across the pond, the title of this new capsule collection is Le Voyageur , featuring [...]

Gird your loins, tighten your belts and call your bank manager: this Friday 11 May marks the start of the Dover Street Market MARKET- that’s not a mistype, but a DSM-ism for their three-day archive sale, offering past season stock at 70-odd % discount. As ever with Dover Street Market, mere shopping is augmented by [...]

The Itae accessories juggernaut Bottega Veneta was founded on the maxim “when your own initials are enough” – and so heartily does the label believe in said branding-without-branding, they’re now offering an “Initials” service to splash your choice of letters across a selection of their leather wares. You can initial your intrecciato with up to [...]

Leather stands for lust – and I don’t just mean S&M straps and flaps. There’s a lust for acquisition, certainly, when a handbag or pair of shoes become a need rather than a want. There’s also a lust for luxury – that is something Hermès have been harnessing for 175 years – “the first material [...]

We love this set of three limited edition plates designed by director John Waters. There’s only 300 of them in existence — lucky for you that there’s a few available via Gagosian Gallery’s online store. http://www.gagosian.com

Read the original … HOT PLATES

Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982 is amazing for a number of reasons — not just because it’s got the longest title out of any book to land on our desk in… well, ever. Obviously, it’s filled with hot people in incredible locations, but also, the images were shot by a [...]