THE WEEKLY EDIT
Six things on our radar right now — from collectible design and archival Chanel to the textures quietly defining the new season.
This week’s Dubai Luxury Weekly Edit moves between two ideas we keep coming back to: objects worth keeping and clothes worth looking at twice. Brunello Cucinelli turns the cocktail hour into something closer to ritual, Sandy Liang turns a USB stick into a hair accessory and a 1995 CHANEL bag reminds us why the right archive piece never really belongs to the past.
Then the mood shifts into texture. Rowen Rose makes high-shine croc-effect tailoring feel unexpectedly modern, while Arma takes shearling into exactly the kind of oversized, tactile territory we want for the season ahead. Add a translucent Coca-Cola BE@RBRICK and the edit becomes less about categories than about one thing: pieces with personality.
The Art Of The Object
The most compelling luxury objects are rarely about necessity. They are about turning the things we already do into something worth noticing.
The Cocktail Hour, Brunello Style
Brunello Cucinelli has built an entire universe around the idea that luxury should feel lived in rather than displayed, and this cocktail set takes that philosophy well beyond the wardrobe. Presented like a collector’s case, it turns the bar ritual into something considered before a drink has even been poured.
What makes it interesting is not simply the individual tools. It is the sense of ceremony. The polished metal, tactile case and almost architectural presentation make the entire object feel closer to a piece of furniture than a conventional bar set.
The TBM Note — We would leave the case open on a bar cart rather than hide it away. The presentation is half the point.
DISCOVER BRUNELLO CUCINELLI AT FARFETCH →
When A Toy Becomes Design
There is a point at which a collectible stops behaving like a toy and starts functioning as part of a room. At 1000%, MEDICOM TOY’s Coca-Cola BE@RBRICK is firmly on that side of the line.
The translucent Georgia Green finish is what makes this version particularly good. It gives an instantly recognisable pop-cultural object a strangely architectural quality — graphic from a distance, almost glass-like up close.
The Detail — This needs space. On its own, against a clean wall or beside a low console, it becomes much more interesting than surrounded by other collectibles.
DISCOVER MEDICOM TOY AT FARFETCH →The Cult Detail
Some pieces become desirable because they are timeless. Others because they are so specific to a moment that they become impossible to forget.
The USB Hair Clip We Didn’t Know We Needed
Sandy Liang has made nostalgia one of fashion’s most effective design tools, but the best pieces never feel like straightforward throwbacks. The Memories USB hair clip is a perfect example: part tech relic, part accessory, part joke that somehow becomes completely desirable.
It is precisely the kind of thing that makes a simple outfit feel deliberate. White shirt, low ponytail, tiny piece of absurdity at the back.
Style Note — The charm is in not over-styling it. Let the accessory be the strange little detail people notice second.
SHOP SANDY LIANG →
1995, And Still Completely Relevant
The reason archival CHANEL continues to matter is fairly simple: the strongest pieces were never designed to belong to only one season. This 1995 shoulder bag has everything that makes the house instantly recognisable — quilted black leather, gold hardware and the CC turn-lock — without needing anything else.
Thirty years later, the proportions feel arguably even better. Small enough to read as elegant, structured enough to have presence and familiar enough to feel iconic without becoming obvious.
Investment Note — With vintage and pre-owned luxury, condition and provenance matter as much as the model itself. The appeal here is the combination of an identifiable year, classic codes and a silhouette that still works now.
DISCOVER CHANEL PRE-OWNED →Texture Takes Over
Colour may be the first thing we notice, but texture is often what makes a look stay interesting. This season, the most compelling pieces are asking to be touched as much as seen.
The Mini Skirt With Main-Character Energy
Rowen Rose does not really do anonymous clothes, and this croc-effect mini skirt makes that position very clear. The acid olive tone would already be enough to pull focus, but the gloss and embossed texture push it somewhere much more interesting.
The belt is what saves it from becoming purely decorative. It gives the shape structure and turns what could have been a statement piece into something that actually feels styled.
We would keep everything else almost aggressively simple: sheer knit, narrow heel, oversized coat. The skirt has already done the difficult part.
How We’d Wear It — Olive, black and tobacco brown. No competing prints, no extra drama.
SHOP ROWEN ROSE →
The Coat That Becomes The Outfit
There is a particular kind of outerwear that makes everything underneath almost irrelevant. Arma’s reversible Rien shearling coat belongs firmly in that category.
The length gives it drama, while the deep brown keeps it grounded. More importantly, the texture does the work without needing oversized hardware, exaggerated tailoring or obvious branding.
For colder travel, this is exactly the sort of piece we like: white trousers, simple knit, flat shoe and one genuinely substantial coat over the top.
The TBM Note — Reversibility matters most when both sides genuinely work. Here it adds versatility without compromising the silhouette.
SHOP ARMA →The Edit At A Glance
The point of a good edit is not to collect more. It is to notice the pieces that make everything around them feel more considered.
Happy shopping — see you next week.
xo
