A return to classic denim styles has our hearts pounding
Enduring love
If recent seasons have seen more outré denim styles reign supreme on the runway - the big and baggy, the low-slung, the diamanté-encrusted - the beginning of a new year offers time for a reset. Now is the moment for revisiting denim's most timeless archetypes, subtly subverted this season by an array of designers - from the classic blue jean to the Western-style denim shirt. Both of these pieces are revisited with aplomb at Brunello Cucinelli, where the label's dedication to Italian craftsmanship creates denim that is both soft, strong and intrinsically elegant.
A similar refinement is evident at Fendi, where womenswear creative director Kim Jones uses crisp indigo-dyed denim for equestrian-inspired dresses - a rounded skirt and buckle recall the proportions of a saddle and impeccably tailored high-waisted jeans. At Jacob Cöhen - an expert in the medium, crafting its famed denim entirely by hand in the Veneto - sees bootcut fits and gently-oversized denim jackets strike a 1990s-inflected mood (a simple white tank provides the perfect companion). A raw-edge trenchcoat by Tod's, in contrasting panels of washed denim, also recalls the undone glamour of the era, here reinvigorated for the season ahead.
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Guiding Light - Designer Joe Armitage follows his grandfather's footsteps in India, reissuing his elegant midcentury lamp and creating a new chandelier for Nilufar Gallery
For some of us, family inheritances I tend to be burdensome, taking up space, emotionally and physically, in both our minds and attics. For the London-based designer and architect Joe Armitage, however, a family heirloom has taken him somewhere lighter and brighter, across generations and continents, and into the path of Le Corbusier. This is the story of a lamp designed by Edward Armitage in India 72 years ago, which has today been expanded into a collection of lights by his grandson Joe.
POLE POSITION
A compact Melbourne house with a small footprint is big on efficiency and experimentation
URBAN OASIS
At an art-filled Mexico City residence, New York designer Giancarlo Valle has put his own spin on the country's traditional craft heritage
WARM FRONT
Designer Clive Lonstein elevates his carefully curated Manhattan home with rich textures and fabrics
BALCONY SCENE
A Brazilian island hotel offers a unique approach to the alfresco experience
ENSEMBLE CAST
How architect Anne Holtrop is leaving his mark on the Middle East
Survival mode
A new show looks at preparing for a post-apocalyptic landscape (and other catastrophes)
FLASK FORCE
A limited-edition perfume collaboration between two Spanish craft masters says it with flowers
BLOOM SERVICE
A flower-shaped brutalist beauty in Geneva gets a refresh
SECOND NATURE
A remodelled museum in Lisbon, by Kengo Kuma & Associates, meshes Japanese and Portuguese influences to create a space that sits in harmony with its surroundings
