The Rencontres de la Photographie draws the world’s elite of the photography world to Arles. In recent years, major luxury houses—from Louis Vuitton to Guerlain—have realized that the city is the only place in France where culture, money, and desire intersect without (almost) ever clashing.

Thirteen years ago, he was the first fashion designer from sub-Saharan Africa to be included in the Paris Haute Couture Week schedule. Once again this year, Imane Ayissi will present his Autumn-Winter 2026–2027 collection from July 6 to 9. It’s an opportunity to revisit his unique world, at the crossroads of haute couture and African textile traditions.

Whether established or emerging, exhibiting at Art Basel can change not only an artist’s fate, but also that of a gallery. For its 56th edition, the world’s leading art fair continues to surprise with breathtaking installations, ranging from those by renowned Japanese visual artist Tadashi Kawamata (Ruinart Art Lounge) to the young Swiss painter Marius Steiger.

Long seen as Asia’s discreet manufacturing hub rather than its glamorous showcase, Vietnam is undergoing a major transformation. Southeast Asia’s most capitalist communist country is now attracting the world’s leading luxury brands at an almost defiant pace. It has even seen an influx of Russian, Korean, and European visitors since the conflict in the Middle East.

For over six decades, major Italian design firms were the ones mostly driving the conversations each spring in the Lombard capital. Today, leading luxury brands such as Hermès, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Baccarat, Miu Miu, and Loro Piana are jostling for attention during Salone del Mobile, the most important annual design event.

With the publication of the “2025 Sustainability Report”, Audemars Piguet has clearly set out its sustainability objectives, which the brand has supported with several commitments, including the phasing out of ruby sourcing and the allocation of 2% of its turnover to its two Foundations. Luxury Tribune was able to conduct an exclusive on-camera interview with Ilaria Resta, the brand’s CEO, about these developments.

For its 100th anniversary, the brand presents the Monarch: not an ultra-limited collector’s piece, but a model designed to be a timeless icon. Drawing on archival references and technical precision, it distills a century of history into a contemporary watch with a vintage style. The story of a creation that, in its very essence, tells a century of history.

By refocusing the strategy on the product, the company’s CEO Gregory Kissling aims to reestablish Breguet at the heart of fine watchmaking.

Between the Upper East Side and Soho, Manhattan has redrawn the boundaries of luxury. With recent openings and the exodus of galleries to the Lower East Side, the Big Apple proves that “brick-and-mortar” isn’t dead: it’s just become more exclusive, more artistic, and radically experiential.

As the Watches and Wonders fair closed its doors on April 20 with a positive outcome and increased attendance, Guillaume de Seynes, CEO of Hermès International (upstream division and equity investments), outlines the measures taken by the brand to reverse the downward trend in its watchmaking division, which has struggled to regain the strong momentum of the post-Covid years.

Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, the American dream continues to make the country the world’s most sought-after destination. The remaining question is where it is still embodied. Jackson Hole, Santa Barbara, Fort Worth: three enclaves where the art of living and a favourable tax regime attract prominent figures and the ultra-wealthy.

In Milan, the issue of subcontractors – brought to light, among others, by the Loro Piana case – reveals the flip side of an industrial model in which artisanal excellence coexists with production lines that are becoming increasingly difficult to control.

At the foot of the Tatra Mountains, Zakopane claims to be Poland’s winter capital. With tourism booming, the resort is betting everything on its cultural, authentic, and historical appeal to attract a more upscale international clientele.

The idea is ambitious: to turn Trondheim, a small city in northern Norway with just over 200,000 residents, into an international cultural destination through a museum of modern and contemporary art, the PoMo, which opened its doors in 2025, thereby creating in Norway what is known as the “Bilbao effect”— the transformation of a city through a museum.