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The Truth of Luxury

THE LUXURY OF AUTHENTIC BRANDS Love counts in the practice of making true. The heart of the genuine: exploring the concepts of authenticity, history, brands and the place of luxury. I’d open with the meaning — and the combinational character of the idea of truth and...

The perfume of Babies

Working in Japan, we designed for Japan, for Shiseido. There’s a story there, digging in, building the fluency of designing to another culture, in that culture; it’s not American design, transported to work in the Japanese markets, it’s designing...

You Smell Marvelous

What is the nature of the perfected marvel, in scent? Really — you smell marvelous? I got a note from Barneys New York. It was really about Byredo — I’d made some notes about them earlier. Y O U   S M E L L   M A R V E L ? Ben Gorham’s drawn up...