VERSACE GOES YOUNGER
Italian fashion house Versace recently opened its first boutique in Milan dedicated to kids’ line Young Versace, geared toward boys and girls from 0 to 12 years old. Young Versace is located on the ground floor of the company’s headquarters on Via Borgospesso and is quite small at 538 square feet. The store will offer the line’s inaugural Spring 2012 collection, which includes zipper-detailed tops, studded hoodies and skirts with the brand’s key motif. With the new boutique, Versace has joined a list of luxury labels that have entered the kids fashion market such as Lanvin, Roger Vivier and Jean Paul Gaultier. Vivier, the French footwear label will introduce a […]
AN AK-47 FOR THE OFFICE
Arms dealers have been known to flood the African market and now the Geneva-based mechanical luxury maker Roland Iten has reclaimed the killing machines to turn them into arm candy under the new brand Fonderie 47. A pair of the cufflinks costs nearly $33,000, possibly the most expenisve in the world, and are plated with 18K white and rose gold. Only 20 pieces will be made and over 20,000 guns will be taken off the streets. In addition to cufflinks, Fonderie 47 makes custom rings for men and earrings for women. To create one ring some 75 assault riffles are destroyed and 500 are melted down and redesigned for a […]