John Walker & Sons, Scotch Whisky Distillers By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen, celebrates sixty years since the Queen’s accession with the bottling of Diamond Jubilee By John Walker & Sons. The pre-announced last summer whisky has been maturing since 1952, the year she acceded to the throne.
fashion & luxury
Yesterday, Net-a-Porter, an online luxury retailer launched a new collection designed by Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld that was announced at Le Web in Paris in the end of the last year. Five augmented reality-enhanced shopping events across the globe took place at window locations in Paris, New York, London, Berlin and Sydney.
H&M is currently running its first Design Award 2012. As part of the retailer’s commitment to the future of fashion, the H&M Design Award will be an annual prize. It is being presented through a series of short online videos that started airing from January 13 to February 1 on the H&M Design Award website.
Dolce&Gabbana has unveiled an haute couture range of exclusive heavily embroidered bodices that may be turned dresses, all in crystals, priced at eighty thousands of euros on average at its fall fashion show. The new “63 exquisitely crafted bustiers encrusted with jewels and sequins and everything glittery” were presented at the closing of the SS12 (watch the video below). These bodysuits are available both as they are and as dresses, which are much easier to wear than bustiers (the key elements of design and decoration are preserved)—only a few of them can be purchased at the moment (which makes this range a bit prêt-à-porter), the rest can be ordered by the loyal clientele.