Editor’s Note: Love, in All the Ways That Last

Welcome to 2026. I hope your year has begun with momentum, with clarity, with the quiet thrill of watching intentions turn into action. I hope you are already surprising yourself with your discipline, your softness, your courage. This is our first issue of the year, and it felt only right that it be devoted to Love. Not only the cinematic kind. Not only the candlelit dinners and carefully chosen notes. But the enduring, shaping, life altering kind. In this Love Issue, we explore affection as a practice rather than a performance. We look at what we nurture, what we protect, … Continue reading Editor’s Note: Love, in All the Ways That Last

On Friendship, Flourishing, and the Love Stories That Outlast Romance

Why True Friendships Are Essential to Love, Life, and the Soul of Our Communities There are forms of love that announce themselves loudly. They arrive with ceremony, spectacle, and promise. They are toasted at weddings, immortalised in cinema, and endlessly … Continue reading On Friendship, Flourishing, and the Love Stories That Outlast Romance

The Power of Storytelling in Business: Why Acquired and Aspire with Emma Grede Are the Podcasts We Need Right Now

Podcasts have become our modern salons; a place where ambitious minds gather, not in smoky Parisian cafés or boardrooms, but through headphones on commutes, gym runs, and quiet evenings at home. Yet in a saturated landscape of fast takes and … Continue reading The Power of Storytelling in Business: Why Acquired and Aspire with Emma Grede Are the Podcasts We Need Right Now

Fétiche La Rose: The Stilettoed Rose – Christian Louboutin’s New Ode to Seduction

Christian Louboutin’s beauty line has long translated the house’s sex appeal ,the lacquered heel, the red sole, the theatrical silhouette into bottles that look like jewels. With Fétiche La Rose, the maison adds a distinctly carnal floral to its Fétiche collection: … Continue reading Fétiche La Rose: The Stilettoed Rose – Christian Louboutin’s New Ode to Seduction