Sustainability: a drop in the ocean?
The One Ocean Summit in Brest aims to mobilise the international community to take tangible action to save the ocean. Yet another emergency for the stricken planet. Part one: taking stock.
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Luxury, biodiversity and the sixth mass extinction
At five points in the past 500 million years, life on Earth was almost completely wiped out. We are now on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, and we are the cause. Can humans right their wrongs? The luxury industry must lead by example.
Retail Therapy in the United States
The pursuit of a new timepiece can be a thrilling, heart-pounding experience. But it’s certainly no fun shopping for a new ticker for your wrist when the one in your chest is revving in terror.
Jean Dunand cultivates watchmaking as an art
In 2009, two years after its debut presentation, Pièces Uniques Jean Dunand is launching the Shabaka, which incorporates a minute-repeater with cathedral chimes, an instantaneous perpetual calendar, moon phases and a power reserve. Another world-first, signed Christophe Claret and Thierry Oulevay.
Jaeger-LeCoultre puts the accent on its points of sale
In autumn 2008, the Le Sentier firm revised its distribution business model. Its objective for this year is to step up its marketing activity and to open new points of sale. All is revealed in an interview with Jérôme Lambert, CEO of Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre.
Van Cleef & Arpels brings its poetic vision of the world
With Une Journée à Paris, the Les Jardins "quantième de saison" models and its Midnight collections, Van Cleef & Arpels stays true to the poetic complications that have become a hallmark of the brand. Nicolas Bos, International Marketing Director, explains.
