Burberry put on more than a show at LFW – its Makers House demonstrating individual crafts from passementerie making to calligraphy, in a specially designed shop setting. Open until 27 September.
See it, buy it at LFW from Aspinal of London in the new immediately available collection made in collaboration with Downton Abbey actress Michelle Dockery – including this vintage style, two-colour calf or croc snap-bag.
At Bali's hospitality-centric Nusa Dua district, The Mulia, Mulia Resorts & Villas has launched The Unity Garden – a 2,000sq m beachfront venue with endless ocean and Geger Temple views.
Spot the shoe (and bag): Charlotte Olympia celebrates her Brazilian roots at London Fashion Week with a shoe and bag collection in tropical fruit shades, and some rather suggestive 1940s-style dancers.
In the 1960s, an air hostess working for the British Overseas Airways Corporation lined her Globe-Trotter suitcase with glamorous hotel labels – inspiration today for the brand's bags, including this dinky vanity/handbag.
Bespoke Italian tailoring start-up Lanieri has just opened its debut German atelier on Munich's Türkenstrasse – the brand's 7th studio to open since beginning online-only in 2012.
London Fashion Week's small but creative opening day presentations are already setting an agenda: primary colour (Teatum Jones and Three Four), innocent freshness (Steven Tai) and gender-fluid clothes.
Cool Californian glasses brand Oliver Peoples debuts its first European store in London with the perfect glasses case to stash both your opticals and shades. Softly suede-lined and bag-friendly too.
Exhibiting at the M.A.D.Gallery in Geneva, Saigon-based motorcycle customisers Bandit9's 9-piece limited edition EVE MK II – a heavily stripped back and chromed 1967 Honda Supersport, inspired by the Jet Age.
In London, Brown's Hotel has unveiled the newly renovated and expanded Kipling Suite. Now the property's largest guest space, it stands as a resplendent example of English crafts and style.
Opening today amid the convivial surrounds of the Dufour Pavillion within the Palace of Versailles, chef Alain Ducasse's latest culinary outpost ore - Ducasse au Château de Versailles.
At Paris Biennale, high-craft jewellers from around the world: Indian Nirav Modi's diamond cuts and pastels, Armenian-descended Boghossian's use of light and diamond falls, Taipei-based Cindy Chao's handworked organic precision.
Images left to right: Nirav Modi, Boghossian, Cindy Chao
