How ethical blue economy investments support ocean conservation
The investment community is waking up to the opportunities in our oceans. Impactful ethical investments in the blue economy can involve plastic waste prevention, sustainable seafood, maritime transport, eco-tourism and more Photography by David Eustace DEUTSCHE BANK...
Deutsche Bank’s Claudio de Sanctis on investing in the ocean
Claudio de Sanctis, the new Global Head of Wealth Management at Deutsche Bank, has been passionate about the oceans since he was young. He now sees the blue economy – the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth – as a major and necessary target for...
Kering’s Marie-Claire Daveu on benefits of the blue economy
The Kering group, owner of Gucci and Bottega Veneta, led the luxury industry by pioneering a sustainability strategy years ago. Marie-Claire Daveu, who spearheaded this move, explains how environmental accounting and the blue economy are good for business, consumers...
Introducing the next generation of environmental campaigners
Better stewardship of the oceans is at the heart of the blue economy and is the core message of the next generation of environmental campaigners for ocean conservation. Here are the activists a new generation is listening to DEUTSCHE BANK WEALTH MANAGEMENT x LUX...
These photographer-activists are capturing underwater beauty
A new generation of photographer-activists are raising awareness of the beauty under the sea, and creating a call to action to save the oceans DEUTSCHE BANK WEALTH MANAGEMENT x LUX ANNIE GUTTRIDGE Photographer, ocean advocate, president of non-profit Saving the Blue...
Kristen Marhaver: the marine biologist pioneering coral conservation
She is one of the most compelling figures in ocean conservation. Kristen Marhaver, a marine biologist and TED and WEF star, has made coral regeneration sexy. She tells Darius Sanai that rapid scientific advance and philanthropic support are combining to make the idea...
Travel Inspiration: Four of our favourite historic country hotels
A couple of unspoilt Cotswolds rural idylls from the 14th and 17th centuries, a rare luxury hotel in Champagne with a touch of the contemporary, and the best place to stay in medieval Heidelberg, LUX recommends four historic country hotels to visit post-lockdown The...
Hidden Europe: driving from Alsace-Lorraine to Lake Constance
LUX takes a journey from Alsace-Lorraine to Lake Constance, through a historic, beautiful, tranquil and gastronomic part of France and Germany that is curiously overlooked on the international tourist map Location photography by Isabella Sheherazade Sanai There was a...
Why we’re dreaming of summers at Badrutt’s Palace, St Moritz
St Moritz is well known as the winter playground of Europe’s rich and aristocratic. But don’t dismiss the resort, and especially its venerable and truly grand hotel Badrutt’s Palace, as a summer destination One single word: Badrutt’s. Among a certain crowd, it...
Entrepreneur Dr. Li Li on the importance of global relationships
Li Li is a woman on a mission. Taking over her husband’s Beijing-based medical company MEBO after his unexpected early passing a few years ago, she has built it into one of the most significant and serious players in the rapidly developing field of regenerative...
Fashion superstar Giorgio Armani on his global empire
The designs of fashion superstar Giorgio Armani have become synonymous with the relaxed yet restrained and sophisticated style that has, over the nearly half century he has been in the business, transformed Italian tailoring. Harriet Quick talks to the legend about...
How Hublot’s collaborations are changing the face of luxury
Hublot is celebrated for being the most pioneering and original brand in the world of haute horlogerie. The first watch brand to sponsor international football, the first watch company to make an all-black watch with black dial, numbers and hands, the company famously...
Princess Yachts CEO Antony Sheriff on a new generation of yachting
Antony Sheriff has transformed the fortunes of Bernard Arnault’s yachtmaker Princess, creating boats that are stylish, in demand and environmentally innovative, for a new generation of consumer. LUX gets his story “It’s the sports car of the range. The hull reduces...
Chelsea Barracks is redefining London’s garden squares
Chelsea Barracks has already established itself as one of the most desirable places to live in London. Its gardens, with their planting schemes, public artworks and open access, are adding to the city’s continuing and defining history of garden squares, as Anna Tyzack...
12 Questions: Sergei Polunin
Tattooed, athletic and outspoken, ballet maestro Sergei Polunin has a way of keeping everyone on their toes. LUX talks to the dancer, actor and entrepreneur about his internet-breaking video for Hozier, working with Kenneth Branagh, and dancing in virtual reality 1....
How Andermatt Swiss Alps is tackling climate change
Climate change is creating challenges for mountain resorts the world over. In Switzerland, a new luxury resort is leading the way in incorporating ecologically sound design into every aspect of their development. Jenny Southan discovers the innovations and advances...
Van Cleef & Arpels CEO Nicolas Bos on the poetry of jewellery
The heritage of Parisian jeweller Van Cleef & Arpels is being honoured by an exhibition at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, in which their gems from across the years are being shown alongside the raw stones that such jewels are made from. On the...
Jason deCaires Taylor on underwater art & ocean conservation
Artist, diver and marine conservationist Jason deCaires Taylor creates mesmerising underwater art that draws divers away from delicate coral ecosystems and helps scientists study the effects of pollution. He speaks to LUX about his new project near the Great Barrier...
How Gaggenau is innovating the ancient art of steam cooking
The ancient art of steam cooking has gained new impetus with the revolution in healthy and mindful cuisine. Lisa Jayne Harris looks at the artful kitchen innovations from design-led German luxury appliance maker, and chefs’ favourite, Gaggenau Alice B. Toklas, the...
Fashion designer Erdem Moralıoğlu’s guide to east London
Erdem Moralıoğlu’s flagship store is in Mayfair, but the heart of this designer to the stars is in hip east London, where he lives and has his studio. He gives LUX a pre-lockdown tour of his home patch My favourite view… The view from the restaurant at the...
Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar & the artistic revival of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
The south of France, home to Matisse, Cézanne and Van Gogh, has one of the greatest artistic legacies in the world. Now the mayor of one of its most exclusive communities wants to create a cultural heritage for the next generation, as Lanie Goodman discovers “I am...
Frieze NY Special: In the studio with Mickalene Thomas
New York-based Mickalene Thomas is an important and innovative voice in the art world. Her dazzling portraits of African American women use collage, enamel and her signature rhinestones to explore femininity and ideas of beauty. Maryam Eisler visits her in her...
Frieze NY Special: Discovering Deutsche Bank’s legendary art collection
One of the key elements of this year’s edition of Frieze New York was to have been an exhibition drawn from the legendary art collection of Deutsche Bank, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The fair may have been postponed, but the significance of the collection, its...
Art photographer Senta Simond on the female image
Art photographer Senta Simond sets out to explore the female image through what she calls her own definition of a woman. She talks us through images from her latest series, shown in New York this year “I discovered that being a woman photographing women allowed me to...
Wolfgang Tillmans: the visual artist and philosopher
The everyday is transformed by the all-seeing eye of German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans “I take pictures, in order to see the world”. This famous quote by Wolfgang Tillmans casts a little light on the nature of his art, being celebrated in a retrospective in...
Boundary-breaking artist Barbara Kasten on light & perception
Barbara Kasten is one of the most intriguing and influential photographic artists of the past 50 years. Born in the US before the second world war and initially influenced by the Bauhaus movement of the 1930s, her work seems to meld two dimensions into three and defy...