Simply Luxury
Fashion
At Palazzo Barberini, Interferenze Fall Winter 2026/27 explores fashion through the same tensions that shape its architectural setting. Structure meets movement, discipline encounters instinct, and established codes are disrupted by gestures of freedom. The collection considers clothing not simply as adornment, but as a space in which identity, movement and form remain in constant negotiation.
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Jewellery
Few gemstones possess the immediate warmth of a yellow diamond. Yet its colour is the result of complex geological processes, careful grading and highly specialised cutting. At Graff, decades of attention to these stones have established yellow diamonds as a distinctive part of the house’s jewellery language, from softly luminous hues to deeply saturated Fancy Vivid examples.
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Property
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have acquired Strancally Castle, a restored 19th century estate set across 440 acres in County Waterford, creating an extraordinary new Irish base on the banks of the River Blackwater.
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Fashion
Ferrari takes its Pre-Fall 2026 wardrobe into an English garden, where Rocco Iannone’s tailoring, workshop codes and quietly luxurious materials make the case for the Prancing Horse as a fashion house in its own right.
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Jewellery
With Colours of Extraleganza, Piaget brings its three-part High Jewellery narrative to a vivid conclusion. Drawing on the Maison’s long relationship with colour, goldsmithing and ultra-thin watchmaking, the collection transforms gemstones into a study of movement, contrast and chromatic expression.
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Fashion
Stella McCartney’s Winter 2026 campaign introduces a new chapter for the house following the designer’s reacquisition of her brand. Drawing on Savile Row tailoring, family influences, sensuality and a longstanding commitment to animal-free fashion, the collection brings these foundations into sharper focus through lighter silhouettes and material innovation.
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Horology
To mark Mercedes-Benz’s 140th anniversary, IWC Schaffhausen has created a limited-edition Big Pilot’s Watch that brings together two longstanding traditions of engineering. The watch introduces IWC’s newly developed Perpetual Calendar ProSet, pairing an unusually intuitive calendar mechanism with details that reference Mercedes-Benz’s history.
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Fashion
With his Fall/Winter 2026 collection for Tom Ford, Haider Ackermann turns his attention to tailoring, examining the relationship between authority, sensuality and vulnerability. Sharp suiting, altered proportions and flashes of transparency create a wardrobe that retains the house’s confidence while allowing its traditional codes to become less rigid.
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Fashion
Balenciaga’s Spring 27 collection, conceived by Pierpaolo Piccioli, returns to the house’s couture foundations through a study of proportion, movement and personal freedom. Rather than treating clothing as a fixed structure, the collection considers the body as its starting point, using lighter materials and adaptable construction to rethink how a garment can exist in motion.
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Automobiles
At Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats, the Defender OCTA took on an unusual supporting role in JCB’s pursuit of hydrogen-powered speed. The high-performance SUV helped launch the Hydromax from a standstill, combining its own all-terrain capability with the engineering demands of a record attempt.
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