Luxury news, as it happens.
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29 September 2026
NikeSKIMS opens its first China store, a Shanghai pop-up to February 2027
The Taikoo Hui space has fitting rooms, lounge areas and on-site tailoring for select pieces, and the collection is also on the Nike App.
- Watches & Jewelry
Seiko adds olive and khaki dials to 5 Sports Field GMT at $450
Both references keep the 39.4mm steel case and the caliber 4R34, and they join the permanent collection rather than a limited run.
- Watches & Jewelry
Rolex's Four Seasons Daytona collection sells for $49.4 million at charity sale
Aurel Bacs conducted the sale for Phillips, with proceeds split between Roger Federer's foundation and Leonardo DiCaprio's Re:wild.
28 September 2026
- Beauty
Formafantasma named creative directors of Santa Maria Novella
The Florentine house, founded by Dominican friars in 1221, is betting its next chapter on a design studio with no background in perfumery.
- Watches & Jewelry
Yema sets a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite into its new Navygraf CMM.10
Each of the 150 titanium cases carries a dial cut from Muonionalusta, an iron-nickel meteorite whose Widmanstatten pattern makes every watch visually distinct.
- Garage
Rossinavi's M/Y HEED debuts at Monaco with interiors by Achille Salvagni
The Viareggio shipyard kept the 53 metre build just under the 500 gross tonnage line, a threshold that changes crewing rules and marina access.
- Style
Burberry marks 170 years with a global campaign shot on 170 people
The pop-up landing at Harrods alongside the shoot offers the same ten coats, an exclusive embroidered map coat preorder and a scarf bar.
- Watches & Jewelry
Louis Vuitton revives its 1988 Monterey watch in green or black ceramic
The pebble-shaped case, first built with IWC in 1988, returns as a permanent line at EUR 23,000, its dial pared back to time only.
- Garage
Royal Huisman reveals Project 410, the world's largest single-masted sailing yacht
The 85-meter sloop was built in secrecy at the Dutch yard's Vollenhove facility and heads to open water this November, with delivery to its owner set for next year.
27 September 2026
- Watches & Jewelry
Ulysse Nardin adds fired enamel and guilloché dials to its crownless Freak One
Donzé Cadrans, Ulysse Nardin's in-house atelier, hand-engraves the master plate that becomes the stamping die for each disc.
- Style
Demna's third Gucci show restages a flagship store, and critics call it too Balenciaga
Critics are already asking whether the Spring Summer 2027 collection leaned too hard on his Balenciaga instincts.
- Watches & Jewelry
Breguet marks Marine anniversary with new hand-guilloché dials
The pattern traces the Île de la Cité and Île Saint-Louis, and Breguet cut it first for its 250th anniversary rather than for this pair of watches.
- Watches & Jewelry
Nivada Grenchen turns 100 with an F77 MKII stone dial launch
The updated case is thinner and the movement runs longer, with one ice agate version capped at 100 pieces.
- Watches & Jewelry
Grönefeld revives four discontinued watches in one 473-part Quadrivium
The Dutch atelier's most complicated watch yet folds three discontinued cult mechanisms into one case, priced at €280,000 in tantalum and €310,000 in platinum.
- Watches & Jewelry
Chopard revives its original 1976 Happy Diamonds and 1993 Happy Sport
Caroline Scheufele designed the 1993 original after her father asked why she'd put diamonds in a steel watch.
- Watches & Jewelry
Pandora and Pat McGrath launch a 17-piece beauty-inspired jewelry capsule
Prices run from €39 to €199 in Europe and $58 to $250 in the US, with the range set by market rather than a single global price.
- Home
King George III's royal observatory in Richmond lists for $24 million
Built in 1769 so George III could watch the Transit of Venus, the Grade I listed house carries planning permission for a further 10,000 square feet, including parking for 17 cars.
26 September 2026
- Garage
The 1967 AAR Eagle Mk I, Dan Gurney's own F1 winner, is up for auction
This is the third of only four Weslake V12 Eagle Mk I chassis built, and it is not even the race-winning car.
- Watches & Jewelry
Atelier Wen and Massena Lab launch tantalum-cased Inflection Shuò watch
The 50-piece Inflection Shuò pairs a solid gold hand-hammered dial with a Girard-Perregaux based movement, priced at $44,100 before taxes.
- Style
Adidas encrusts its Superstar sneaker with multi-colored jewels
Adidas has not said what the jeweled Samba costs, how many pairs exist or when it ships, leaving the design statement without a shopping plan.
- Home
Norman Foster designs a chandelier for Venice Glass Week's Murano showcase
The tenth Venice Glass Week paired twelve creatives with Murano's master glassmakers, and the results will stay lit above St Mark's Square until November 1.
- Dining
Dos Hombres ages new reposado tequila in Four Roses bourbon barrels
The $50 reposado is the celebrity brand's second tequila release, made by a master distiller who came out of retirement to produce it.
- Style
Prada opens eight-floor Galleria flagship in Milan's historic arcade
The eight-floor store adds exhibition space, a screening room and private salons to the address where Fratelli Prada opened its first shop.
- Garage
Brabus caps its 888-hp convertible G-Wagen at just 10 examples
The German tuner's reworked V8 hits nearly 900 horsepower, and the run of 10 starts at 890,740 euros before options.
25 September 2026
- Garage
Feadship's Hive is its largest megayacht concept yet, at 377 feet
The 65-foot glass-bottomed pool on the owner's deck extends straight into the interior, on a design that can also run on methanol or hydrogen fuel cells for zero-emissions cruising.
- Watches & Jewelry
Favre Leuba adds black and blue dials to the Harpoon Revival, at CHF 1,800
The 36.8mm homage to the 1966 original keeps its CHF 1,800 price, and the brand has left the door open for a metal bracelet reviewers are still asking for.
- Watches & Jewelry
Perrelet adds four stone dials to its accessible Weekend watch collection
Each dial is sliced from natural stone, so no two watches are exactly alike, and the range now runs to six colorways in total.
- Dining
Whispering Angel marks 20 years with a limited anniversary vintage rosé
The Provençal rosé that helped popularize the category worldwide has released a signed, limited-edition bottling to mark two decades since its 2006 debut.
- Style
Kith marks 15 years with every one of its 1,849 sneaker collaborations on show
The Brooklyn show runs three days before a 444-page Assouline book on the archive goes on sale worldwide at all Kith stores.
- Dining
Glenmorangie unveils its oldest-ever whisky, a 50-year-old in a porcelain sculpture
Distilled from a recipe assembled in 1999, the whisky is presented in one of 149 individually made porcelain vessels priced at £25,800.
