Cartier continues to explore the field of time, where he has played with almost every possible design. The rectangle distinguishes the Tank family. The square, the Saints. And the circle, the Ballon Bleu. And now he dares with the new Coussin (cushion in French) with built-in surprise, because when you press his box (gently, it's a piece of high jewelry!) It flexes. Yes, it's flexible like a balloon and collapses under pressure, but it springs back to its original shape in a matter of seconds thanks to its gold meshwork woven into a grid pattern.
The new Coussin Cartier comes in two versions. With pavé diamonds and emeralds, tourmalines, tsavorites and sapphires in an elegant display of the permanent vocation of the Parisian house to reinvent codes.
It is a beautiful square bordered with stones of different diameters that accentuate the movement. This surprising novelty has also given the firm's workshops the possibility of inaugurating the triangular setting, which allows diamonds to be placed directly in the case without resorting to traditional grains. Thus the metal is blurred revealing all the luminosity and beauty of the gem.
The Arceau Les Folies du Ciel watch by Hermès is a dreamlike nod to the early days of conquering the sky. A tribute to the pioneers who were wrong to believe that man could one day fly. It combines painting, engraving and animation to create a unique composition, inspired by the motif of the silk scarf entitled precisely with this name, Les Folies du Ciel, by Loïc Dubigeon, designed in 1984 to honor aerostatics.
Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller explore the possibilities of manipulating imaging devices and the visual worlds they create. The long-term research of the artist duo concentrates on digital and media images, an image format that is mobile and therefore available anytime, anywhere, and which we deal with on a daily basis using idiosyncratic gestures like swiping, scrolling, and tapping.
His artistic practice has given rise to sculptures, videos and conferences in installation settings. Contrary to the usual trend of using digital technologies for artistic production, the duo produces handmade artifacts, applying experimental methods to exploit the combination of tangible devices, performative gestures and digital images. Markus Hanakam (1979, Essen, Germany) and Roswitha Schuller (1984, Friesach, Austria) have been collaborating as a duo since 2004. Their work is shown in museums and festivals in an international context, including the 2013 Videodumbo Festival at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York, and the fourth Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011.
In 2018, the first Pegasus Turbo revolutionized the sector thanks to a key finding by Nike, that of dispensing with the carbon fiber plate while keeping the foam in the midsole to create an efficient shoe for daily training. And then in 2021, the Air Zoom AlphaFly Next Nature proved that a performance shoe – and a top-of-the-line competition shoe, no less – could be made from recycled materials.
Now, all that innovation is collected by the Nike Pegasus Turbo Next Nature. Nike's latest advancement in signature performance footwear design is made with at least 50% recycled material by weight and with a midsole made with at least 55% leftover foam.
In addition, in the manufacture of the upper part of this shoe, recycled threads are used (Flyknit 100%) that provide a more secure, breathable and lightweight fit and are created in a dyeing process that saves 70 liters of water for each kilo of thread. produced.
