Luxury Briefing: Inside LMVH’s ‘quiet opulence’ jewelry brand, as jewelry outpaces luxury
In this week’s Luxury Briefing, I spoke to Repossi CEO Anne de Vergeron at Shoptalk Luxe in Abu Dhabi about the brand’s design- and art-led growth. Also, a look behind the scenes at what is working for luxury brands in creator marketing. Plus, executive moves at On Holding, news to...
Taiwanese Breakfast, Beef Noodle Soup, and Craft Beer: How I Eat My Way Around Taipei
After a decade in the restaurant industry, teaching myself how to make Taiwanese food and cooking in the pressure cooker that is New York City, I’ve learned that the most powerful ingredient in many recipes is nostalgia. It often makes you assume the food you were raised on is the best way to...
Glossy Pop Newsletter: As TikTok embraces ‘Chinese Baddie’ culture, TCM brands see a breakthrough moment
On TikTok, everyone is suddenly Chinese. It is a rare trend that is overwhelmingly positive. Across race and cultural backgrounds, users have been logging onto the app to document themselves boiling apples to drink in hot water, buying house slippers to avoid walking barefoot at home and...
Teff Pasta, Modern Ethiopian Dining, and Piles of Spices: How I Eat Around Addis Ababa
The capital of my home country, and the location of my new restaurant, Marcus Addis Restaurant & Sky Bar, is both the center of Ethiopia and a core component of our nation’s culture. Restaurants and artistic institutions go hand and hand in Addis. Here, galleries, museums, and markets come...
Late-Night Mutton and Superb Sardines: How We Eat in Paris
Steak frites at Brasserie Lipp. | Brasserie Lipp We both came to France in our 20s, one of us (Johno) for work at Activision and the other (Mashama) for a cooking school, and we both fell in love with Paris in our own ways. After we got the Grey in Savannah off the ground, we talked about...
Experts: Will Chinese wind power help or hinder Europe’s climate goals?
The European Union and the UK are not on track to meet their 2030 offshore wind targets. At the same time, Chinese wind-turbine manufacturers – who account for more than half of global wind-turbine capacity – are looking to grow their footprint in the European market, where their presence...
Factcheck: What it really costs to heat a home in the UK with a heat pump
Electric heat pumps are set to play a key role in the UK’s climate strategy, as well as cutting the nation’s reliance on imported fossil fuels. Heat pumps took centre-stage in the UK government’s recent “warm homes plan”, which said that they could also help cut household energy bills by...AIs Are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities
From an Anthropic blog post: In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only standard, open-source tools, instead of the custom tools needed by previous generations. This illustrates...Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered
A new species of squid. pretends to be a plant: Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor—a behavior never documented in cephalopods. They captured the bizarre scene while studying the depths of the Clarion-Clipperton...