The Diamond Already Fell. Leather Is Next.
Or so the argument goes. The evidence is more interesting than that, and considerably less comfortable for everyone involved. The case is usually put…
Why Robots Still Can’t Sew Your Clothes
Machines are excellent with rigid things and hopeless with floppy ones. A factory can build a car body untouched by human hands and still…
The Brand Ambassador Economy
On what a maison acquires when it acquires a person, and why the contract gets weaker as the person gets more valuable. In December…
Quiet Luxury Is Four Hundred Years Old
The merchants of Edo Japan were forbidden from showing their wealth, so they put it where only they could see it. In museum collections…
Luxury Pricing Pyramid: How a €400 Perfume Bottle Funds a €40,000 Handbag
How a luxury pricing pyramid actually works, and why the cheapest thing in the shop is the most important object the house sells Walk…
Arsenic and Old Lace
In the century when the most beautiful colour in the room was also the most dangerous Matilda Scheurer made leaves for a living. Not…
How Pink Switched Sides
Pink was for boys, blue was for girls, and the swap is younger than your grandmother. Somewhere in the world today, a couple is…
The Name Remains. The House is Gone. What Bankruptcy Law Protects in a Fashion House, and What it Quietly Lets Die
The Name Remains. The House is Gone. What bankruptcy law protects in a fashion house, and what it quietly lets die. In 1984, Roy…
Sun as Signifier: The Euro Summer Never Goes Out of Style. Here is exactly why it cannot.
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into…
Art at the Pleasure of the State: Cannes, French Law, and the Regulation of Global Glamour
The Festival de Cannes is the most-watched cultural event on earth. It is also, quietly, one of the most governed. This is the story…
The Exception Wears Prada
There is a category of power that the law has always found it more convenient to describe than to discipline. Giorgio Agamben, following Carl…
The Business of Being Unattainable: Luxury Scarcity, Economic Theory, and the Law’s Uneasy Encounter with Prestige
Luxury begins, rather inconveniently for economists, at the precise moment economics starts to look a little naïve. Economists adore tidy stories. Demand rises, supply…
Securitising the Sparkle: When Jewelry Begins to Behave Like a Security
A diamond necklace rests quietly against a silk collarbone. It catches the light with studied discretion, refracting brilliance in disciplined geometry. It is purchased…
Call Me by Your Reference: On Aesthetic Amnesia, Unnamed Muses And The Cost Of Curation In 2026
Curation Is Not Neutral Anymore Fashion likes to pretend that curation is instinct. A feeling. A collage. Something ineffable and therefore untouchable. In 2026,…
When Paris Filed for Residency in Mumbai: How Brands Navigate India’s Multi-Brand Retail Laws
When news broke that Galeries Lafayette was stepping into Mumbai, the city didn’t merely react — it tilted, ever so slightly, on its cultural…
All in One Breath: Dior, Anderson, and the Discipline of Power
“Voir grand, sans oublier les fondations.” Dream big, but never forget the foundations. When Jonathan Anderson unveiled his first Dior show as the house’s…
From Atelier to Audit: Loro Piana’s Judgement
“Made in Italy is not a passport to morality.” July 2025: Some people in Milan will not remember this month for its summer sales,…