Bottega Veneta

Bottega Veneta opens expansive futuristic boutique in Tokyo

Positioned on a street corner in Tokyo’s Ginza, Bottega Veneta’s brand new six-storey flagship store features a material palette that pays homage to the Italian brand’s roots while nodding to its local surroundings.   Occupying 800 sq m over six...

Split screen: artist Katrien De Blauwer’s final cut of A/W 2018

Ever since I was a child, there was a voice inside me that told me I was not like the rest,’ says Katrien De Blauwer. She’s speaking from her studio in Antwerp, a hidden room in a small apartment...

Stairways to retail heaven: the best treads in-store

In luxury boutiques around the world, staircase design is seriously on the up. Staircases constructed from intricate jigsaw pieces of marble, graphic folds of burnished metal, or spiralling organic forms, are enticing customers to venture into the upper echelons of a store. Here...

Fashion brands leave their sartorial mark on Salone del Mobile 2018

There was a time when fashion brands would host cocktail parties at Salone del Mobile — create a window display, perhaps — and call it a day, but those days are long gone. ‘It feels like every fashion brand has finally woken...

Lying low: action man seeks Zen den for down time

Photography: Liam Warwick. Fashion: Jason Hughes

House proud: Bottega Veneta’s Tomas Maier and Scott Pask’s show apartment

When Bottega Veneta’s creative director Tomas Maier decided to uproot his A/W 2018 runway show from Milan and move it to New York this past season, he did so with all creative guns blazing. The result was an extravagant Brutalist-inspired backdrop...

Behind the set: Bottega Veneta works the room for its A/W 2018 show in New York

Bottega Veneta’s creative director Tomas Maier was feeling house-proud for the label’s A/W 2018 catwalk show. In celebration of the Italian brand’s newly opened apartment-inspired boutique on New York’s Madison Avenue, its menswear and womenswear offerings were staged at the...

Playing house: Bottega Veneta’s Manhattan boutique looks to apartment living

If you’ve ever been tempted to immerse yourself in Bottega Veneta’s well-heeled world, the label’s new flagship boutique in New York City is your chance. Where three landmarked 19th-century townhouses once stood is now a five-storey behemoth that the brand...

Bottega Veneta A/W 2018

Scene setting: the American Stock Exchange Building - a 25,000-square-foot space located in the heart of Wall Street- was Bottega Veneta’s venue of choice for its first runway presentation on New York soil. A first for the Renaissance Revival-style...

Shape shifting: making moves with photographer Roos Quakernaat

Roos Quakernaat caught our eye at the latest Hyères Festival of Fashion and Photography. So we did the patronly thing and tasked her with artfully tangling new Dutch design and this season’s key looks, as she explains here in her...

Military detail: our platoon of swashbuckling young guns stand to attention

Bottega Veneta S/S 2018

Scene setting: Bottega Veneta creative director Tomas Maier transported guests to the Palazzo Archinto, seating them within its gilded rooms. The show soundtrack revealed a fresher and more youthful outlook for the brand, as models walked the mirror-lined catwalk to...