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Versace Spring/Summer 2015 menswear campaign

Fashion brand Versace has unveiled the campaign to promote its Spring/Summer 2015 menswear collection...

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Zaha Hadid unveils first building in Brazil

Zaha Hadid Architects have made public the first images of their inaugural project in Brazil, an 11-storey apartment building on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.

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Dwayne Wade and Alejandro Ingelmo launch new Way of Wade sneakers

NBA player Dwayne Wade and shoe designer Alejandro Ingelmo have unveiled their latest collaboration, the ‘Third Element’ sneaker collection, during the latest edition of Basel Art Miami Beach...

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Burberry marks year of financial growth with new stores worldwide

British luxury fashion and accessories brand Burberry is closing the year with a 14% underlying growth revenue and an overall outperformance across its digital channels...

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Museum of the History of Polish Jews wins inaugural Finlandia prize for architecture

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, designed by Finnish architectsLahdelma & Mahlamäki, has been announced as the winner of the firstFinlandia prize for architecture, awarded by the Finnish Association of Architects. 

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Versace unveils exclusive collection for Brazil

Versace unveils exclusive collection for Brazil

Italian fashion brand Versace has launched an affordable ready-to-wear collection for Riachuelo, one of Brazil’s biggest retailers, owner of over 220 department stores across the country...

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Victoria Beckham opens first store in London

Fashion designer Victoria Beckham has commissioned London-based architect Farshid Moussavi to design her inaugural world flagship store. 

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London welcomes first Mondrian Hotel outside the US

The Morgans Hotel Group has unveiled the first Mondrian hotel outside the US... 

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Todd Lynn Spring/Summer 2015 menswear

Canada-born and London-based fashion designer Todd Lynn has unveiled images of his menswear collection for Spring/Summer 2015, marking the end of a three-year creative silence on his ambition to develop a men’s fashion line... 

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Eastpak x Courrèges new bag collection 

Accessories label Eastpak has partnered with the House of Courrèges on a new collection of bags...

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Exclusive Readers Giveaway: $200 up for grabs to spend at East Dane!

The Style Examiner has partnered with East Dane to give 4 readers the chance to win $50 each to spend on an incredibly variety of men’s clothes, men’s shoes, and an array of accessories from a large number of brands!

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Portrait of a life in style: Horst’s photography is celebrated in major retrospective in London

Hailed as “the definitive retrospective exhibition of the work of [a] master photographer”, the exhibition ‘Horst: Photographer of Style’ that the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is unveiling on 6 September 2014 is undoubtedly one of the most historically significant and impressively comprehensive exhibitions of fashion photography that the world has witnessed in recent years...

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Discovering the World of Rick Owens in London

London department store Selfridges has today unveiled ‘The World of Rick Owens’, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fashion designer’s label...

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Ecorkhotel in Évora, Portugal, by José Carlos Cruz Architect

Portuguese architect José Carlos Cruz has unveiled photographs of his Ecorkhotel, the first hotel in the world with external walls clad entirely in natural brown cork...  

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In Search of the Perfect Pair of Men’s Transitional Shoes

Even though Clarks remains a challenging label often identified with ‘dad’s shoes’, a close analysis of its most recent collections reveals two or three models that always stand out for their elegant design, and the Dorset is certainly one of those successful examples...

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Boxfresh: Celebrating 25 Years at the Helm of Street Style

When something good steadily coexists with your routine for a significantly long period of your life, it is easy to forget the origins and history of this quietly loyal companion to just focus on enjoying what it offers. So when it came to my knowledge that Boxfresh had completed its 25th anniversary a few weeks ago, it took me a while to realise the magnitude of such longevity within the temporal dimensions of the fashion realm... 

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Jonathan Saunders Spring/Summer 2015

Using the latest edition of London Collections: Men as a pretext, fashion designer Jonathan Saunders unveiled both his menswear and womenswear creations forSpring/Summer 2015 on 15 June 2014 within a setting that mirrored an overall aesthetic where retro-futuristic portraits of fantastical universes were embraced at all levels...

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