Today
What our most stylish designers will be wearing on New Year’s Eve
It’s the last day of 2023, so why not go out with sartorial fireworks?
- Lauren Sams
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The good, bad and ugly of business in 2023
Big deals, dud deals, scandals and success stories. In a year of high drama and big market moves, we look back at the winners and losers.
- Updated
- James Thomson
This Month
How perfumer Jo Malone regained her mojo after losing her sense of smell
The UK entrepreneur sold her first global brand to Estée Lauder after chemotherapy destroyed her olfactory system. Her drive to build another business followed a complete recovery.
- Lauren Sams
How to become a billionaire by the time you’re 30
Little more than 10 years ago, Gymshark founder Ben Francis was making and selling muscle vests online from his parents’ garage.
- Elizabeth Grice
Psst. It’s OK to buy make-up and shampoo from the supermarket
Traditional beauty companies eschew mass markets but these Aussie brands are happily stocked on supermarket shelves.
- Lauren Sams
Why fashionable wait-staff help restaurants win customers
Once an afterthought, uniforms are now a unique selling point for hospitality businesses – so much so that customers are walking out the door with them.
- Lauren Sams
This fashion-conscious consultant quit her job over an outfit
Friska Wirya is a change-management consultant whose career has seen her work with ASX-listed companies, implementing digital innovation.
- Lauren Sams
Surprise stars shine at the ‘Oscars of watchmaking’
Among the winners of the annual Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève were a few rank-and-file brands, a welcome mix for the general public.
- Bani McSpedden
The 13 names behind Britain’s great watch revival
Switzerland’s watch industry has taken the art of self-promotion to an impressive level, but there’s action a plenty in the “home” of horology.
- Simon de Burton
The lawyers who have a side hustle as influencers
Getting ready for work and posting about it has won a sizeable audience for these professionals.
- Lauren Sams
Here’s why we’ll be partying this summer like there’s no tomorrow
You can be forgiven for forgetting there’s a downturn afoot. Birthdays, Christmas lunches, parties for the hell of it – budgets are bigger and event planners are busier than ever.
- Lauren Sams
‘The watch of your dreams’: What’s next for Vacheron Constantin
The brand’s style and heritage director, Christian Selmoni, explains why it strives to maintain its sophisticated identity.
- Bani McSpedden
Yours for as little as $9k: watch brands save best for last in 2023
From exciting updates to cool artist collaborations, luxury watchmakers including Amin Strom, Blancpain and IWC continue to impress right up to the end of the year.
- Bani McSpedden
The Australian womenswear brand that’s making waves everywhere
Founded by sisters and based in Noosa, where its “secret store” is used as a testing ground, Matteau is the ultimate quiet achiever.
- Lauren Sams
The watch dynasty primed for the billion-dollar club
Richard Mille is set for a new era in the hands of the next generation, and you can expect the impact to reach our shores.
- Bani McSpedden
November
Collectors drive up pre-owned luxury watch prices - and big brands want in
Maybe not in time for Christmas, but the one-stop shop for watches, both new and used, is coming.
- Bani McSpedden
- Opinion
- AFR Magazine
The one retail sector where soaring prices won’t stop people buying
Rare, precious and oh so expensive. Even as luxury prices continue to rise, consumers keep opening their wallets. Here’s why.
- Lauren Sams
Introducing the ‘plastic fantastic’ Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
Forty years on and Swatch is still spreading the magic – with a little help from the very siblings it saved.
- Tony Prochazka
- Christmas Gift Guide 2023
- Life & Leisure
Goodbye gift anxiety! These tastemakers know exactly what to buy
It’s the time of year when your presence is not always present enough, so read on for tips ranging from the sublime to the ridiculously cheap.
- Lauren Sams
- Christmas Gift Guide 2023
- Life & Leisure
From fashion to fragrance: Christmas gifts for style lovers
Wondering what to get the beautiful people in your life this Christmas? We’ve done the hard yards for you.
- Eugenie Kelly
