Swatch has a new collaboration out; this time, with Swiss dive timepiece experts, Blancpain. This second partnership with a luxury brand on a legacy model has birthed the Bioceramic Scuba Fifty Fathoms collection consisting of five designs, each paying homage to the five oceans and the creatures …
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Here’s Why Owning a Luxury Timepiece Now is More Challenging than Ever
These are not great times for luxury timepieces, if the recently released research from luxury pre-owned watch specialists, Watchfinder & Co, is anything to go by. Not only has it reported that counterfeits in circulation in the UK have surpassed one million, but its research has also reveale…
Luxury Fashion is Finding New and Exciting Expressions
Do you remember the year Coco Chanel started wearing and designing pants for women in the early 20th century, causing high society to clutch their pearls and gasp in collective horror at such audacious vulgarity? Or, when in 1947, Christian Dior threw this same class into further distress by debu…
OSalu Couture and Ethnic Attitude bring African Fashion to Life on Dubai Catwalk
For African immigrants, finding African influences in food, fashion and other cultural aspects in the diaspora can be a very difficult task, a situation that is not replicated in most African countries. A good number are trying to change this narrative wherever they find themselves, like Damilola…
This 2023, Rolex has crafted a Timepiece Specially for You
If you’ve ever gone, ‘Nah; a Rolex isn’t for me’, there are definitely reasons for that, some of which may be that the complication of a Cosmograph Daytona is … just too complicated. Or that the ‘tool-siness’ of the Yachtmaster, Submariner and other tool watches in its lineup are … well, too tool…
Uncovering Bulgari’s Mastery of Colourful High Jewellery
Like art, colours play an important role in jewellery making. But unlike art, incorporating colours in high jewellery is not as easy as brands like Bulgari have made it out to look. The primary source of colours in jewellery is gemstones, but unless you’re glueing them on top of each other or som…
This Female-Owned SA Fragrance Brand has found a Creative Way to Bring the Past to the Present
South African Alishia van Deventer was in Egypt visiting her daughter when she came across some exquisite vintage perfume bottles. “I am obsessed with perfume oils and also find it very hard to walk past a beautiful perfume bottle. So, I went and found 10 luxury oils that I know women will love a…
The ASPIRE x Montaigne Place 2022 Gift Edit
The time has come: to shop for the best gifts that are a perfect blend of unselfish indulgence and mindful self-care. Avoid a stressful, panic-filled trip across different stores with our thoughtful holiday gift edit that has something for you and everyone on your list. Shop the ASPIRE x Montaig…
This Season, Give the Gift of an Ajmal Perfume — or Two!
If you thought giving gifts was overrated or inconsequential, consider this: research and psychological studies reveal that this often-overlooked act has been a part of human evolution and is linked to the ways through which we cultivate and foster human connections. In other words, because we ar…
2022 Lagos Fashion Week: It is Time to do Things Differently
If you for a split second thought that your attendance at the 2022 Lagos Fashion Week would suck you into the warmth of an array of dazzling colours and give you front-row access to some of the finest and most creative African designers, you thought right. This year’s edition of the Lagos Fashion…