Wardrobe, craft, houses
Fashion
Luxury fashion is not about owning more. It is about the twenty pieces that do everything, cut and finished so well that you stop thinking about them.
Less, better
The luxury capsule wardrobe: twenty pieces that do everything
The twenty pieces that make a luxury wardrobe work: the coat, the knitwear, the trousers, the shirt, the shoes and the bag, with the fabrics, cuts and houses that justify the price.
The protected term
What haute couture really is
Haute couture is a legally protected term with strict rules: an atelier in Paris, hand-made pieces fitted to the client and two collections a year.
Leather as an asset
The bags that hold their value
Which luxury bags resell for more than they cost, which lose half their value in a year, and how to buy, use and store a bag so that it stays an asset.
Savile Row, Naples, Milan
Bespoke tailoring explained
What bespoke means, how it differs from made-to-measure, what it costs on Savile Row, in Naples and Milan, how long it takes and how to choose your first cloth.
The guide
New Designers: ten picks
The designers who will be the established houses of 2035: ten independents with a point of view, a workshop and a first piece worth buying now.
- The Row · New York
- Khaite · New York
- Toteme · Stockholm
- Jacquemus · Paris
- Wales Bonner · London
- and five more
The right gift, fast
Gift Finder
Who it is for, the occasion and the budget: five luxury gift ideas that land, from a candle to a watch.
Gavalia Concierge
A personal shortlist, within two working days
Tell us the brief and the budget. A person, not an algorithm, replies with three to five considered options: the right watch, the right villa, the right hotel, the right gift.
- Free, independent, no affiliate links
- Three to five options with prices and reasons
- Introductions to the right dealer, advisor or hotel on request