Les mondes du luxe

Under the stars of Kyoto on June 18, OMEGA revealed its new secret: the Aqua Terra 30 mm. Through the “my little secret” campaign, six exceptional women embodied this collection, combining elegance and modernity. With 12 distinct references, each watch allowed every woman to express her unique personality. Vibrant dials, precious materials—18K Moonshine™ gold, 18K Sedna™ gold, stainless steel, and two-tone—this collection transcends time with boldness and refinement.

Through sound installations (often dissonant) and sculptures, Nazanin Noori, a young Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin, gives shape to the distant echo of protest, capturing the tension between digital immediacy and emotional distance. Her work invites us to question the collective memory of revolt, where words and images crumble.
On view until 22 June at Auto Italia, London.

Liu Jiakun, winner of the 2025 Pritzker Prize, transforms architecture into living poetry, where every material and form tells a story of resilience. His works, which use materials loaded with symbolism such as bricks from the Wenchuan earthquake, blend memory and modernity, offering spaces that celebrate the beauty of the moment while respecting the earth and humanity.

Fascinated by space since early childhood, seven-time Formula 1™ world champion and IWC watch ambassador since 2013, Lewis Hamilton, experienced an astronaut training flight under real-life conditions. To offer him this experience, IWC partnered with the Polaris program and its philanthropic director and pilot instructor, John “Slick” Baum.

Artcurial is celebrating the centenary of the Jardin Majorelle with a new auction. On 30 December, at the Mamounia Palace in Marrakech, two works by Jacques Majorelle will be offered for sale for the first time: Aouache à Télouet , estimated at between €350,000 and €500,000, and Bijoux Berbères , estimated at between €250,000 and €350,000. For this sixth edition, ‘Un Hiver Marocain’ will be pre-exhibited in Paris, Milan, Brussels and, from 27 December, in Marrakech.

From June 24 to 27, during Paris Fashion Week, the Saudi Fashion Commission will showcase some of its 100 talents on the 5th floor of La Samaritaine. In an exclusive showroom, 11 pioneering designers and their spring-summer 2026 collections will be featured: 1886, Awaken, Eleven, Hajruss, Mirai, RBA, Razan Alazzouni, Rebirth, Reem Alkanhal, Waad Aloqaili, and Yasmina Q. A creative showcase open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (CEST).

At Berlin’s Galerie Bastian, the German filmmaker turns his gaze to photography. Wim Wenders, no stranger to stories in motion, freezes the world in a silent whisper. Nearby and Far Away takes visitors on a sensitive journey from Europe to China, on the border between reality and memory. From May 3 to July 26, 2025.

The CARTIER exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum is an immersive experience where the creations of the luxury house are showcased in a set of subtle lighting and decor, like clouds that magnify the gems. Asif Khan’s poetic scenography honors Cartier’s heritage in London and illustrates its deep ties with British royalty and the London elite.

At the end of the 1950s, Pop Art swept across both sides of the Atlantic, and included many leading artists, including Tom Wesselmann. From 17 October 2024 to 24 February 2025, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is devoting an exhibition to this timeless artistic movement. ‘Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &…’ presents a selection of 150 paintings and works by 35 artists of different generations and nationalities.

As it does every year, the capital of fashion and luxury is opening the doors of its most unusual and emblematic places. Here are three events not to be missed on the weekend of 21 and 22 September 2024: the Institut Joaillerie Cartier is exceptionally opening its doors to the public in its historic private hotel to discover the company’s treasures and precious stones and chat with its craftsmen – Chanel’s fashion factory (the 19M) is offering visitors the chance to discover the expertise of Chanel’s art houses in the Paloma, Lesage and Ateliers Lognon workshops – Finally, at number 26 Place Vendôme, jeweller Boucheron is opening its historic boutique-workshop to the public and its private flat usually reserved for privileged customers.

From June 12 to 15, 2025, Design Days will take over the industrial heart of Lausanne: the 1960s Rasude space for a plural and transdisciplinary exploration of design. Bold and sustainable creations—such as Cristina Nezel’s sculptural vases and Fabien Roy’s Swiss wood furniture—come together in a poetic reflection on the future of Swiss design.

For half a century, the Sebastião Salgado’s work has left its mark on the history of modern humanist and documentary photography. Until June 1, the Brazilian artist is exhibiting his black-and-white photographs at Les Franciscaines in Deauville, France, offering a striking insight into the reality of poverty in Africa and Latin America since the 1970s.

The Ingénieur Automatic 40, IWC Schaffhausen’s first anti-magnetic wristwatch, features an all-new blue dial, highlighting rhodium-plated baton hands filled with luminescent material to guarantee legibility. This model with its mechanical movement takes up the aesthetic codes of the Ingénieur SL, originally designed by Gérald Genta, the famous Geneva-based watch designer, in the 1970s.

From 26 January to 25 May 2025, the Fondation Beyeler near Basel is unveiling a new group exhibition entitled ‘Northern Lights’. Nearly 80 landscapes painted between 1880 and 1930 by artists from Scandinavia and Canada will be on show. Inspired by the boreal forest, the works immerse us sometimes in the radiant light of endless summer days, sometimes in long winter nights.

“Mon enfant, ma sœur, Songe à la douceur d’aller là-bas vivre ensemble!” These few verses by Charles Baudelaire could resonate in the series of exhibition rooms at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. “Invitation to the Voyage” (1857) is also the name given to the exhibition soon to open at the Fondation Beyeler in German-speaking Switzerland from September 22, 2024 to January 26, 2025. This Henri Matisse retrospective brings together over 70 major works from private collections and leading European and American museums. It links the common recurring themes that link the two French artists: Matisse and Baudelaire.