Textile Wit Meets Artistic Grit: Laneus x Thomas Lélu Light Up Milan Design Week

By Elena Sendona on April 10, 2025

At this year’s Milan Design Week, the Italian luxury knitwear brand Laneus makes a bold and poetic debut into home interiors through a collaboration with French artist Thomas Lélu. Known for his irreverent wit and handwritten quote art, Lélu brings his signature humor and conceptual depth to a limited-edition home décor capsule presented at the Laneus showroom in the historic Cinque Vie district.

The setup feels more like a curated...

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Geist: Between Legacy and Becoming – at London’s D Contemporary gallery

Laura Holmes with ‘Welcome Back, You’ve been difficult to talk to.’

By James Brewer

Laura Holmes, a London-based painter, cooks up a feast of wild colouration, as is to be seen in her latest exhibition outing. She is one of four contemporary artists whose work is shown alongside legendary figures (one of them David Hockney, still very much alive and working furiously at the age of 87), in a show titled Geist: Between Legacy and Becoming.

The aim of this display at D Contemporary gallery in the...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/07/geist-between-legacy-and-becoming-at-londons-d-contemporary-gallery/

CAPAS 2025 supports automotive industry in Southwest China to stay ahead of emerging trends

Chengdu, 7 April 2025. The 11th Chengdu International Trade Fair for Automotive Parts and Aftermarket Services (CAPAS) will take place from 22 to 24 May 2025 at the Chengdu Century City New International Exhibition and Convention Center. Spanning across 50,000 sqm of exhibition space, the fair is set to host over 720 exhibitors to highlight key advancements in Southwest China’s automotive industry, focusing on new energy and connectivity. With a line-up of unique activities and more than 20...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/07/capas-2025-supports-automotive-industry-in-southwest-china-to-stay-ahead-of-emerging-trends/

AGL Unveils Limited Edition Ceramic Shoes for Fuori Salone 2025

By Elena Sendona on April 6, 2025

In celebration of Fuori Salone 2025, AGL presents the limited edition Ceramic shoes, a bold fusion of creativity, craftsmanship, and refined Italian elegance. The Ceramic silhouette is an ultra-geometric ballet flat characterized by its strikingly square toe, amplifying volume and making a powerful style statement.

Meticulously crafted using the traditional “sacchetto” technique, these shoes embody comfort and flexibility, enveloping the...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/06/agl-unveils-limited-edition-ceramic-shoes-for-fuori-salone-2025/

Solo exhibition: portraiture from Marta Lola Boros enlivens London arts scene

Marta and her portrait of Tina.

By James Brewer

She has been described as “femme fatale of the London/Polish art scene.” Warsaw-born Marta Lola Boros revels in being “Baroque and Gothic, creative and capricious” and here she is again, with her most ambitious solo show. She has far from expressed hitherto all she has to say, artistically speaking.

On March 25, 2025, Marta unveiled a new series of portraits of sitters including friends, and of herself “with a wave of long curls and Amy Winehouse...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/05/solo-exhibition-portraiture-from-marta-lola-boros-enlivens-london-arts-scene/

Yohji Yamamoto Residency at 10 Corso Como: Where Poetry Meets Radical Fashion

By Elena Sendona on April 3, 2025

The iconic 10 Corso Como in Milan becomes the epicenter of avant-garde fashion and art this April, as it hosts the Yohji Yamamoto Residency during Milano Design Week 2025. Running from April 1st to April 22nd, this immersive installation pays homage to the legendary designer, known as the “poet of black,” and his groundbreaking approach to fashion.

The residency transforms the 10 Corso Como Pop-up into a captivating space where...

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Monaco socialite removed from US sanctions list

Monaco; the marina and at the centre the Yacht Club de Monaco
Good Morning Monaco

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Monaco socialite removed from US sanctions list Monaco resident Karina Rotenberg was at the same time removed from the Specially Designated Nationals list maintained by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control…

Top Marques Monaco celebrates 20 years of supercars, innovation and luxury Top Marques Monaco is gearing up for a spectacular celebration as it marks its 20th...

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Malo Cashmere SS25: Quality Time with Luxury

By Elena Sendona on February 14, 2025

If you are looking to embrace a new chapter of luxury knitwear, Malo Cashmere’s Spring/Summer 2025 collection is your answer. Aptly named “Kairos,” the collection is inspired by the Greek concept of the “right, opportune moment”—a qualitative time that celebrates the essence of living fully and creating lasting memories.

Since its inception in 1972, Malo has remained committed to crafting garments that defy chronological...

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Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo. Royal Academy highlights his fascination with castles – and with the Ocean

Ship in a storm, 1875.

By James Brewer

Victor Hugo, the wonderfully prolific French writer, “is just as splendid as Rembrandt,” wrote Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother. Whether Vincent was referring to Hugo’s novels or to his many drawings on paper is unclear, but there was no doubt that Vincent discerned what he called “astonishing things.”

Hugo’s mystery-suffused sketches, many of which were not intended for the eyes of the public, were drawn a century and a half ago, from around 1856...

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Six weeks to go before All-Energy 2025 opens

The Rt Hon John Swinney MSP, First Minister of Scotland
  • First Minister of Scotland to deliver keynote address

In just six weeks,renewable and low carbon energy developers, investors, buyers, sellers, engineers, academics and industry experts from home and overseas will be arriving in Glasgow, in their thousands for the annual All-Energy exhibition and conference.

“The UK’s largest event of its kind is the magnet drawing Scotland’s First Minister, the UK Energy Minister, Scotland’s Acting...

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