Fiat 500 by Gucci

Originally launched in 1957, the latest iteration of the doe-eyed classic Fiat 500 has been specially customised by Gucci’s Creative Director Frida Giannini, who enhanced the Fiat 500’s distinguishing traits and added the fashion house’s signature detailing via a signature red-green web down the side and the unmistakable “Guccissima” leather print on the seats.

Invited alongside visionaries such as Italian Vogue’s Franco Sozzani and Purple’s Olivier Zahm to dream up a film celebrating the partnership between the Italian automaker and fashion house, Director Chris Sweeney created a giant plastic model kit of the Fiat 500 by Gucci like the ones he used to make as children. “It’s an extreme, austere fashion version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Wallace and Gromit, which are very playful, silly, colorful and magic,” explains Sweeney of his film.

colette. Paris.

colette. For many I needn’t say anything more. They know what I am thinking and I know what they are thinking. Even the critics can’t help but recognise that this über-fashionable store in the heart of Paris is so well turned-out and so achingly cool that appreciation is always given.

Founded in 1997 by Colette Roussaux and her daughter Sarah Andelman (formally Lerfel), or simplement Sarah of colette, the concept store is the epicentre of Parisian cool and the only store of its kind in the world.

As well as cutting-edge fashion from the likes of Gareth Pugh, Comme des Garçons and Lanvin, colette (always lowercase ‘c’) houses a bookshop, a water bar serving more than 100 types of water and they regularly hosts dance classes, music shows, and art exhibitions.

Crane.tv recently spent some time in the store to discover what makes them so bleeding edge. “There will only be one colette in the world. Paris.”