The Neue Luxury category specific inserted magazines have been developed to reward our reader’s intellectual desires. Available within each issue of Neue Luxury, each insert provides an unprecedented and beautifully considered platform capturing the stories, campaigns, products and insights that make the world of luxury fashion, travel, automotive and art so extraordinary.
As we enter what feels like a transformative period in fashion, we felt it timely to discuss the influence and power of youth. We contemplate how we progress as a civilisation through the ephemeral cycle of our youth—a spirited cycle that questions reason, adopts new ways of thinking and interrogates societal structures and constraints. It is in this spirit that we celebrate the iconoclasts transforming fashion and youth culture on a global scale.
As we enter what feels like a period of tectonic political, social and cultural change, we thought it timely to celebrate some of the world’s most influential women and their unwavering commitment to creativity, social reform and political change. Those that are challenging the dichotomy of societal constructs by contrasting feminine concepts of the grotesque and the beautiful, the meek and the powerful, the oppressive and the benign
Fashion like many creative industries, has always acknowledged the inherent value of memory. Provenance and history are, after all, the distinguishing pre-cursors for all luxury fashion houses, particularly those of European origin where strength and confidence has historically been drawn from a brand’s lineage and in most cases, founding creator. But what role does memory play in legitimising authority, adding value or shaping identity?
Fashion has always been a source of inspiration and investigation for other creative disciplines, most notably in recent times design, art and architecture and commerce. Our second issue ventures into each of these worlds to uncover how and when fashion became a coconspirator, and as a consequence fashion moved from beyond pragmatics of form and function into a powerhouse of universal innovation and reinvention.
In exclusive partnership with Harrolds Luxury Department Store, we travelled the world to speak with those disrupting the current fashion system while seeking out those who continue to embrace it. We discuss the theatre of experience underpinning the retail environment while highlighting many support-ing events, exhibitions and products stimulating our imaginations and fuelling our desires.