Bulgari Icons Minaudière Collection
Bulgari’s creative director of leather goods and accessories, Mary Katrantzou, introduces a new line of objets d’art, inspired by over 140 years of the high jewelry brand’s expertise and savoir-faire of jewelry-making. The collection reimagines five of Bulgari’s timeless symbols, including the Serpenti, transforming them into functional accessories. Each one is created from precious enamel, pavé settings, and various inlays of semiprecious color stones. The pieces are suspended from a delicate chain and offered in two sizes—the minaudière and the miniature vanity—making them functional, as well as beautiful.
In honor of the launch, Bulgari tapped photographer Ethan James Green to capture five women with their minaudières. Each person embodies the collection and its representation of strength, transformation, wisdom, allure, and identity. Models, actors, and more, these women are creators of culture. With this new collection, Katrantzou hopes to allow everyone to “carry culture” around with them, too. The Icons Minaudière Collection is available at 11 Bulgari boutiques worldwide.
Givenchy by Sarah Burton’s Snatch Bag
We’ve had the opportunity to sit with Sarah Burton’s Givenchy for almost a year now, through two collections and a lot of red carpet dressing, which makes it the perfect time for the designer to release her first official purse with the brand, the Snatch Bag.
Described as “a study in intimacy,” the bag complements Burton’s designs for Givenchy, with sculptural curves that mimic the shape of a woman’s body, specifically one adorned in a cinched jacket that shows off the waist, or a bra that curves downward to display décolletage. Crafted in supple, calf-grain leather, the bag features short handles that enable over-the-shoulder wear, as well as strips of leather that extend from the top. The bag is available in three sizes—including a small version that can be worn across the body—and in various colorways, both classics like black and dark brown and more eccentric options like baby pink and red. The hardware is also available in both gold and silver, making the piece customizable. The Snatch Bag will be available soon on givenchy.com and in Givenchy stores.
Moncler x Rick Owens
Moncler is sealing its latest collaboration with a kiss. Or rather, multiple kisses. The outerwear brand is celebrating its first collaboration with Rick Owens with a campaign shot by Juergen Teller. In the set of six images, Owens, Teller, and their respective wives and creative partners, Michèle Lamy and Dovile Drizyte, trade smooches while dressed head-to-toe in the collection.
While Moncler is known mostly for its winterwear, this collaboration offers more lightweight, warm-weather options. The looks are inspired by Berlin’s brutalist architecture, as well as the city’s natural spaces, where those hulking buildings meet bucolic greenery. (Owens calls it “brucolic.”) Each garment, therefore, can take the wearer from the city streets straight to the great outdoors. An adjustable jersey skirt and nappa leather bomber may lean more toward a more cosmopolitan air, while Trailgrip Megalace sneakers and a cropped, funnel-neck down jacket are begging to be taken on a hike. With a refined color palette of black, dark dust, vintage olive, and bold carnelian red, these pieces can be worn anywhere and feel completely at home. The collection is available now on moncler.com, rickowens.eu, and in selected Moncler stores, Rick Owens flagship stores, and select retailers.
