Recommended Reads
Welcome to the summer edition of Recommended Reads – Construct’s highly opinionated list of essential reading. Fashion and art collide this season as both seek to leverage each other’s cultural cachet. And sticking to the high-low culture mix, we revel in both the genius of Man Ray and delight in France’s new scratch-and-sniff baguette stamps.
Italian typography and the Bucci archive La Catena?
Construct’s Founder and Creative Director Georgia Fendley was asked by fine jeweller Carolina Bucci to contribute to the brand’s publication, La Catena, on two of her favourite subjects: jewellery and typography. Carolina is a longstanding client of Constructs and Georgia recalls her visit to the brand’s archives and the quirks, traditions and intricacies of Italian typographic craft and its influence on Bucci’s brand identity.
Man Ray: Genius of Light?Silvana Editoriale
Man Ray may be renowned for having revolutionised the art of photography, but he was also a painter, draughtsman, sculptor, writer and filmmaker. It is this protean artist that is explored in a new book from Italian publishers Silvana Editoriale, enabling us to better comprehend Man Ray’s creative process and the importance of his art. ‘Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas,’ he once said, ‘I work with the light, pieces of glass, and chemistry.’
The Secret Retreats That Have CEOs, VIPs and Billionaires Jockeying for Invites The Wall Street Journal
Ultra-exclusive conferences are booming. In Sicily, Aspen and Stockholm, Elon Musk, Karlie Kloss and Margot Robbie are mingling with bank leaders and media moguls. Proof that there’s always another VIP level.
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Why Banal is Big in Fashion’s Latest Campaigns Business of Fashion
Following a year where surrealist stunts were luxury’s biggest marketing trend, voyeuristic campaigns that centre reality – in all its boring glory – are gaining steam. Yet celebrity is still a key ingredient, allowing brands to maintain an aspirational sheen as they experiment with less high-concept ways of presenting products.
Baguette Stamps LS:N Global
Ok so there’s not much to read on a tiny postage stamp, but these scratch-and-sniff versions were too adorable not to include. La Poste has commissioned illustrator Stéphane Humbert-Basset to design a novel stamp featuring a famous symbol of French culture: la baguette. Utilising scratch-and-sniff technology, the stamp emits the aroma of freshly baked bread, adding a sensory dimension to traditional postage.
Revisiting Norbert Schoerner’s Iconic Prada Campaigns From the 90s and 00s AnOther Magazine
To mark the publication of ‘Norbert Schoerner: Prada Archive 1998-2002’, the photographer discusses his intense working relationship with Miuccia Prada and how the cutting-edge publication came to life, bringing iconic images back to life in new and unusual ways.