Ilona Marx

Konfekt

Lunch at the Savoy?

Rossana Orlandi is not a keen cook but that doesn’t stop her hosting unforgettable alfresco soirées. The grande dame of Milan Design Week welcomes Konfekt into her gallery, where conversation flows like a good rosso piceno …

Konfekt

Show and Tell

Art & Culture / Interview

French-Somali gallerist Mariane Ibrahim splits her time between continents but here she invites us for a stroll around her favourite spots in Paris …

Konfekt

The harlequin

Fashion / Interview

Every season, designer Arthur Arbesser surprises the fashion world with his expertly judged combinations of colour and pattern and deftly handled collections. In his Milan studio, he reveals his early influences …

Konfekt

Small is beautiful

Fashion / Interview / Travel

Ilse Cornelissens and Tim Van Geloven’s concept store Graanmarkt 13 began with the building: only once the premises were perfect could the business of curating a vision begin. For Cornelissens, who focuses on small brands founded by daring, imaginative creatives, serendipity plays a part too, with one fortuitous encounter leading to another. Here, she explains her philosophy …

Konfekt

Forward motion

Art & Culture / Interview

At 33, Diandra Donecker is a fresh face in the art market but as director of Grisebach, a historic Berlin auction house, she uses her youthful dynamism to her advantage. We join her for a stroll through the silent woods – and poignant past – of Wannsee …

Kitchn Rebel

Lots new in the north

Food / Interview

For many centuries, surviving a long Nordic winter in Finland was something you had to be prepared for – those who did not take proper precautions were in for it. Collecting, drying, pickling, salting and fermenting were therefore an essential part of basic culinary skills. In his restaurant Grön in Helsinki, chef Toni Kostian has rediscovered the old methods and developed a new star cuisine …

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Sparkling waters

Art & Culture / Interview

On a walk along the Isar River to a beer garden, jewellery designer Saskia Diez explains how anthropology influences her work, and why designing is such an intimate process …

KTCHNrebel

The science of good taste

Food / Interview / Travel

Where do you find business partners in California? Google, sometimes. Brian Chau, a San Francisco-based food scientist, was looking for a place where he could develop new formulas in peace; Dan Mills was dreaming of opening a maker space where all his kitchen equipment would have a purpose …

KTCHNrebel

From Waste to Taste

Food / Interview

Douglas McMaster: brilliant, uncompromising, uses a lot of superlatives. Also, kind of a rock star. His first restaurant, Silo, which opened in Brighton in 2014, takes the “zero waste” idea to new heights. Since September 2017, the 31-year-old British chef has been outdoing even himself …

J’N’C

The year of the
greyhound

Fashion / Interview

The Netherlands is not only a seafaring nation, but also a country of free spirits. That’s why René Descartes chose to settle there, above all other countries, convinced of its tolerance and the fact that he was not at risk of being burned at the stake.

Sportswear International

The Five-Years-Roadmap

Fashion / Interview / Retail

In 2004 Simon Mottram first threw a handful of cycling styles into the race. A lot of water has flowed down the Thames since then.

Sportswear International

What does seamless shopping mean?

Fashion / Interview / Retail

Marc Schumacher has several ideas about what the service of the future will look like. And he knows what he is talking about: before he started as managing partner of German brand communications agency Liganova the graduated business economist worked for several years in retail himself …

Sportswear International

Interview Virgil Abloh

Fashion / Interview / Retail

„Off-White’s Virgil Abloh: „Three years ago, no one could tell, if street fashion would last or not.“

Sportswear International

How to sell a pair of jeans today

Fashion / Interview / Retail

How are well-established labels such as G-Star Raw, to fight back? We talked to G-Star’s Sean Gregory Peron, Marketing Strategy Director, about its plan. …

J’N’C

Cool cities – San Francisco

Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / Travel

From the West Coast to the rest of the world: San Francisco is deemed the birthplace of the five-pocket jeans, the most important fashion statement of the past 140 years.

J’N’C

Women on the frontlines

Fashion / Interview

There are some clichés that end up actually being true: others less so. When we land in Newcastle it’s raining – which doesn’t really surprise us, even though it’s August. A typical British August here up north. For Nigel Cabourn, however, that’s just part of the story.

J’N’C

Cool cities – Los Angeles

Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / Travel

Flashing camera bulbs and famous faces. Endless sunshine and bling-bling fashion. An obsession with physical perfection and Lamborghinis. There is hardly another city that manages to capture our imaginations like Los Angeles does. And the funny thing about it: the clichés are substantiated at every turn!