Hong Kong was the Swiss watch industry’s No. 1 export market for more than a decade. Not anymore. “It is the end of El Dorado,” Thierry Huron, founder of The Mercury Project, a Swiss watch and jewelry consultancy, wrote in an email. With its tourism-driven sales dented by pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019 and then blocked…
“This new wave of young female watch enthusiasts is a relatively new phenomenon,” said Roberta Naas, a veteran horology journalist, author and founder of the website A Timely Perspective. And as “watches have become more universal,” she said, Dimepiece is an example of a community of “women supporting each other, having fun and sharing stories.”…
Organizing a museum survey of feminist art can be as politically fraught as organizing a women’s march, for some of the same reasons. Different women are bound to have different political goals or priorities. There are competing theoretical frameworks, from Marxist feminism, which sees capitalism as the main source of women’s oppression, to the intersectional…
Watch brands need to have strong identities, said Paolo Marai, a Timex executive who is also chief executive of the new Swiss company WorldTime Watches & Jewelry. “The space on the watch is very small,” he said, “so you need the symbol that can be easily identified by the end consumers.” Enter Philipp Plein, the…
Logomania reaches new heights this fall with baseball caps. “They’re definitely a hot item,” said Jian DeLeon, the men’s fashion director at Nordstrom. “It’s an easy way for people to dip their toes into the world of a brand.” In the process, the humble cap has been elevated to a snazzy fashion staple. “It used…
After a year of the pandemic, Katherine Lewin, the former editorial director for the restaurant platform the Infatuation, missed dinner parties. Figuring she was not alone, Ms. Lewin opened a bright shop stocked with essentials for entertaining. “People are intimidated, but it can be easy,” she said. (Ms. Lewin readily dispenses advice.) Shelves are filled…
So long, summer. We’re heading into September and fashion month with a fresh batch of the latest and greatest fashion news and launches. From Louis Vuitton’s playful Fornasetti collaboration to Mejuri’s Icons collection starring—you guessed it—icons from Christy Turlington Burns to Binx Walton, stay tuned as we get ready for fall fashion. 1 Louis Vuitton…
Before 2020, Madison Sinclair hadn’t seen any of the “Twilight” movies. But after watching all five during quarantine, she grew completely enamored — and inspired to express her new fandom. “I wanted to make something that was like, ‘Is this satire or is this real?’” Ms. Sinclair, 21, said on a video call from her…
“Leave It to Beaver” and New Love Anna was the manager of the Tucson, Ariz., assisted living home where my father lived. The day father moved in, I told her I wanted to rearrange the furniture. She had already done it when I arrived. She cut his toenails, combed his hair, watched sports and “Leave…
Nensi Dojaka, a 28-year-old Albanian women’s wear designer known for her distinctive barely-there mesh dresses and separates, has won the 2021 LVMH Prize for emerging talent. The fashion industry’s most prestigious prize was presented to a visibly shocked Ms. Dojaka by the French actress Isabelle Huppert at a ceremony on Wednesday at the Fondation Louis…