Google Glass enters the luxury timepiece market, as Swiss watch brands Frederique Constant and Alpina have incorporated the fledgling technology into their 2014 brand strategies. As part of the Official Google Glass Explorer Program, brands are laying a foundation that will forevermore change how luxury timepieces are merchandized, marketed, and shared. Executives from the luxury [...]

Maserati unveiled the Alfieri, a 2+2 concept car, to celebrate the brand’s centenary at the Geneva Palexpo today. It is a functional prototype. The new concept bears the name of Alfieri, the most prominent of the Maserati brothers, who founded “Officine Alfieri Maserati” in Bologna a century ago. The Alfieri was created at the Maserati [...]

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced Wednesday that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into a contract with Jost Hurler Beteiligungs-und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, a family-owned company based in Munich, for an Andaz hotel in Munich. The first Andaz-branded hotel in Germany, Andaz Munich will join hotels currently located in cities including London, New [...]

LR Health & Beauty Systems is launching two new fragrances for men. “Just Sport” and “Racing” represent the new sports fragrances from the leading cosmetics manufacturer. “Just Sport” is the combination of sportiness, elegance and masculinity. Fresh citrus fruits, sharp notes of ginger and spicy cardamom are combined with notes of sensuous wood and musk [...]

The expanded Porsche plant in Leipzig officially opened Tuesday. Taking roughly two years from start to finish, the facilities now include a body shop and an ultra-modern paint shop in addition to the final assembly to accommodate the production of the new Porsche Macan with a capacity of 50,000 plus annually. The plant, which was [...]

Work by eleven of the world’s leading photographers from five continents will go on show at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in the 2014 Prix Pictet exhibition, opening on 22 May 2014. Centred around the theme of ‘consumption’, Prix Pictet at the V&A presents seventy works by eleven top photographers from nine countries. The photographers [...]

Samsung is joining forces with the UK’s hottest talent to give people with a passion for food, film, music and photography, the opportunity of a lifetime. ‘Launching People’ will see pop-up chef and Sunday Times cook Gizzi Erskine, actor and producer Idris Elba, singer-songwriter Paloma Faith and portrait and fashion photographer Rankin, search for undiscovered [...]

Integrated media company WWE (NYSE:WWE) and BSkyB (LSE:BSY.L) have extended their partnership for five more years. This is to exclusively broadcast WWE’s weekly programming to homes in the U.K. and Ireland through 2019. This new agreement carries WWE and BSkyB’s partnership into the 30th year. “WWE is brilliant entertainment, and I am delighted to once [...]

Avolon, an international aircraft leasing group, hosted Wednesday the world premiere of the film documentary, Pioneers and Aviators, A Century of Irish Aviation. The event took place in the Irish National Concert Hall, Dublin. The film was introduced by Ray Conner, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The premiere was also attended by State [...]

As London celebrates record numbers of international tourists coming to the capital, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, actress Joanna Lumley, model and actress Twiggy, Michelin-star Chef Gordon Ramsay and two of the world’s most famous ballet dancers talk about what makes their city “the greatest place on earth” to visit. The ‘Love London like [...]

Today, Jaguar North America announced the three renowned actors to appear in “Rendezvous,” its 60-second television advertisement to debut during the second half of Super Bowl XLVIII. It revealed details of its brand and product marketing campaign, called “British Villains,” which introduces the Jaguar F-TYPE Coupe (on sale spring, 2014). “Rendezvous” stars Sir Ben Kingsley, [...]

Beer brand Heineken launched Monday ‘Dance More, Drink Slow,’ a partnership with Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren to make moderate consumption aspirational. The movement, socialized as #DMDS, is the natural progression of Heineken’s belief that one should always be ready to maximize what the night brings. The movement is brought to life through “The Experiment,” [...]