White Paper by - English Issue 3

Sebastian Kaufmann Sebastián Kaufmann is a consultant to Argentine fashion and luxury brands, especially in contemporary jewelry from London, where he currently lives. As a creative and artistic director, he is always on the lookout for emerging designers. During the time he lived in Spain, he was editor of ELLE Spain and a regular contributor to the Spanish newspaper El País, as well as editor of Vogue Turkey. He designed the marketing strategy for Prada’s first fragrance and later worked on the communication of perfumes for Paco Rabanne, Carolina Herrera, and Comme des Garçons. Rubén Vega Rubén Vega has worked as a photographer for many years and is a reference both in the fashion world and in his personal works of natural landscapes, with a sense of aesthetics, of the…

If reincarnation is real and we really do live other lives, I am sure I must have been British in one of them. I have no words to describe the fascination I feel when reading about England, no matter the century. Actually, I do have a predilection for the Regency, the Victorian era, and the Jacobite Wars. I have no idea why. Living in a country where light is so important, especially for me, we have little rain and the weather is not spoken about much. More so lately though, since now we do talk about the weather, the vaccine, and the masks, but it makes me nervous to start worrying about the weather so much. I think I am a lot like Timothy Spall’s character from It Snows in…

Dafydd Jones is a documentary photographer from Oxford, England, who has published a book with images he took around the ‘80s of the young British elite who studied there or went to fun and wild parties. In this book, he recreates these crazy situations with photography in the purest British style. Dafydd worked as a window cleaner at Oxford University, where he began to witness curious and peculiar situations, which led him to realize his interest in photography. Once this interest began taking root, he started attending editorial meetings and taking pictures for student magazines and newspapers, an unpaid but valuable experience, which later led him to set up a photographic studio with his friends from art school. To support himself financially, he cleaned kitchens part-time in students’ houses. In…

Today, her hairdo, accidental yet so put together, the palazzo khakis in cotton canvas, the navy t-shirt under a zippered cardigan and the platform creepers-a Chambers trademark- paint a picture that she’s been drawing for four decades: carefully accidental, intuitively planned; freely referential and, at the same time, entirely sui generis. As Cassandra Maxwell, founder of @ agentofsubstance, says: “Lucinda’s talent is undoubted and her eye is impeccable, but she delivers all with immense wit and a lightness of touch.” Chambers’ beautiful home in the West London neighborhood of Shepherds Bush is a hocus pocus of references, colors, and textures-albeit one permeating a vision as strong as it is cohesive. The gloriously luminous kitchen, a perfect setting for us to talk about Collagerie and Colville, the two projects that have…

The history of Floris London is so very much tied to the wonderful tradition of classic children’s tales that we might well begin to tell it with the following words: “Once upon a time there was a man called Juan Famenias Floris who, with his wife Elizabeth, moved from his native island Menorca (Spain) to Montpellier (France) to learn everything about perfumes. He later settled in London, where he began his work as a barber and manufacturer of brushes and Spanish combs while formulating fragrances based on the scents of the Mediterranean countryside and sea.” He did all of this in the shop he bought, located at 89 Jermyn Street, in the Saint James’s Quarter. It was 1730 and the adventure had just started. The Floris family worked hard and…

London-based aromatherapy with a wide range of face care and body care products and fragrances for the home. Founded in 1985 by Geraldine Howard and Sue Beechey, Aromatherapy Associates is an important and consolidated firm among luxury spas and its products are recommended by professional therapists. Its portfolio includes well-known names such as Mandarin Oriental, Sandy Lane, and Conrad, or Liberty London. The oils take the body and mind on a complete sensory journey. For more than 30 years, Aromatherapy Associates has been a leading specialist in wellness, mindfulness, and advocating a balanced lifestyle and the therapeutic effect they have on the body and mind. This award-winning firm in the world of beauty is empowered by the healing powers contained in the ingredients of the different collections, whether bath oils,…