Accessories label Eastpak has partnered with the House of Courrèges on a new collection of bags (with highly accomplished results, The Style Examiner might add). Unveiled today but scheduled to become available in stores worldwide from November 2014, the collection includes travel bags, totes, shoulder bags and backpacks made from...
Singer and fashion-aficionado will.i.am has added another venture to his entrepreneur career by creating ill.i, a new eyewear brand comprising sunglasses and optical styles for men and women. Developed in partnership with designer and long-term friend George Gorrow, the brand is described by will.i.am as being “about dedication and passion”...
What we are loving today: Bottega Veneta cashmere-lined woven leather gloves...
Architectural practices Foster + Partners and FR-EE (Fernando Romero Enterprise) have won the international competition to design Mexico City’s new international airport. Occupying 555,000 square metres, it will be one of the world’s largest and most sustainable airports. The entire terminal was designed as a continuous lightweight glass and steel...
Portuguese architect José Carlos Cruz has unveiled photographs of his Ecorkhotel, the first hotel in the world with external walls clad entirely in natural brown cork. Located one hour outside of Lisbon, and five minutes from the city of Évora (a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1986), the complex is...
Luxury fashion house Valentino has recently opened its largest ever retail space. Located at 693 Fifth Avenue in New York City, the new 20,000 square foot flagship store was designed by British architect David Chipperfield, who has worked on other projects for the Roman fashion brand. The store houses Valentino’s...
Proving the commonplace adage that demonstrations of excellence can be found in the most unexpected of settings, the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame by Trahan Architects is a true architectural gem that deserves all the attention and awards it has garnered since it opened to the public...
According to popular history, this month marks the 85th anniversary of the birth of sunglasses. In their modern incarnation as accessories designed to protect people’s eyes from the sun, sunglasses were born in the summer of 1929, when Sam Foster started selling the new spectacles on the beaches of Atlantic...
Sudan-born and London-based fashion designer Omer Asim has shared his Autumn/Winter 2014/15 womenswear collection with The Style Examiner, and we could not but feel impressed with his budding talent and wonder why it has not garnered more recognition than what it has secured thus far. A true polymath, Asim graduated...
Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled new photographs of the Jockey Club Innovation Tower, a new building designed by the London-based architecture practice to home the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Occupying 15,000 square meters distributed across 15 floors, the building provides new studios, laboratories and workshops,...