It’s anecdotes such as these that Claire Choisne truffles out when researching 163 years of design history in Boucheron’s archives.
Choisne joined the heritage make as its creative director in 2011; working with Boucheron’s 2015-appointed CEO Hélène Poulit-Duquesne, she today dreams up two high jewellery collections annually, presented in January and July. And while Choisne’s summer-reveals surprise with material experimentation, with her January collections the French creative regularly finds new expressions of Boucheron’s biography. “I look at the past, what Boucheron did and I give my own vision of it,” Choisne explains. “It helps me to focus on style and how people will wear the pieces today.”
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Sales improved during the fourth quarter, though they still fell 2%.
Profit from recurring watch and jewelry operations sank 59%.
The watch and jewelry division suffered sharper sales and profit drops than LMVH as a whole. In 2020, LVMH’s revenue dropped 16% compared to the prior year, while profit dropped 28%. However, in the second half of the year, profits rose 7%.
Despite the declines, the group said the watch and jewelry division enjoyed a “strong rebound in China in the second half of the year.”
It listed the following highlights of the watch and jewelry division over the last year:
– Bulgari “capitalized on the strong recovery in China” and successfully launched the Serpenti Viper, B.Zero1 Rock, and Barocko collections.
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Zahia Rahmani s Muslim : A Novel, translated by Matt Reeck and published by Deep Vellum, wins the 2020 Albertine Prize, an annual reader s-choice award that recognizes US-based readers favorite work of contemporary French fiction translated and published in the US during the previous year.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 10, 2020 Zahia Rahmani s Muslim : A Novel, which follows a young Kabylian woman immersing herself in her memories and questioning her identity, was named winner of the 2020 Albertine Prize, presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and supported by Van Cleef & Arpels.
An annual reader s-choice award, the Albertine Prize recognizes US-based readers favorite work of contemporary French fiction translated and published in the US during the previous year. The $10,000 award honors the author and translator.