We have so many sunscreens on our shelf right now that adding another one to the rotation felt entirely unnecessary. There are the fancy Korean ones, the clinical ones, the tinted ones that are half foundation, and a few impulse buys that never quite worked. So when the Oshea Herbals UVShield SPF 50 PA+++ came in for review, the expectations were cautious at best.
Royal Pop Audemars Piguet and Swatch have launched the Royal Pop, a collection of eight bioceramic pocket watches that merges the design language of Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak with the modular ingenuity of Swatch's POP line from the 1980s. The collection launched on May 16th. The POP system, which long-term Swatch followers will recognize, allows the watch to move between different wearing configurations, including lanyard, wrist-mounted straps, and potentially bag charms, g
The lariat is one of jewelry's oldest silhouettes. A single continuous chain that loops through itself, falls in two strands, and terminates in a drop, it has existed in various forms since the 19th century and has been interpreted and reinterpreted so many times across the history of fine jewelry that finding something genuinely new to say with the format requires more than a different gemstone or a more expensive setting.
The first is that modern abstract art is doing something real and the people who made it were often thinking very seriously about what they were trying to do. The second is that the market for this art has almost nothing to do with the art itself and operates on entirely different principles. Understanding both parts does not require any particular background in art history. It requires only the willingness to take the question seriously.
There is a relationship between art and fashion that has been described so many times and in so many ways that the description itself has become a kind of reflex, something reached for automatically whenever a designer name-drops a painter or a museum stages a collaboration with a luxury house or a runway show is held in a gallery space with catalog essays written by curators who are very careful about how much of their credibility they are lending and to whom.