December News Roundup

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Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year, Mocha Mousse, has received an overall lukewarm reception from both the media and the public. In fact, this article in Dezeen nicely recaps the general conversation around the less than exciting hue and the marketing machine that drives Pantone’s Color of the Year selection. So before jumping on the Mocha Mousse bandwagon, read up on what this year’s Pantone hue really seems to symbolize.

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Calvin Klein has been absent from New York Fashion Week ever since the rather unceremonious departure of Raf Simons from the brand in 2018. But this February, Calvin Klein Collection is returning to the catwalk under the creative direction of Veronica Leoni. Learn about Leoni’s background and why the return of Calvin Klein to NYFW is such a major event here.

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Lito Karakostanoglou started designing her own jewelry in 1999 after studying sculpture and life drawing at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, as well as technical drawing for jewelry at the Ecole du Louvre. With such a rich artistic and technical background, the self-taught jeweler and boutique owner has released a sculptural new collection, ‘Paris 1925,’ that draws on the City of Light’s art deco heritage. Read up on what inspired Karakostanoglou to create her latest line up and the collection’s highlights.

Jil Sander boutique, Hamburg, Germany. Photo courtesy of Cineberg / Shutterstock.

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Minimalist fashion icon Jil Sander released a self-named monograph last month. The tome details both her rise to the top of the fashion industry, as well as her clean line, sophisticated aesthetic that embraced considered design, high quality materials and exquisite craftsmanship. The book is a retrospective of both Sander’s vision as a designer and her commitment to creating clothing representative of her values.

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The reopening of Notre Dame last month just before the Christmas holidays was an emotional end to the cathedral’s devastating 2019 fire. Over the course of the great medieval building’s reconstruction, archaeologists were given five weeks to excavate underneath Notre Dame’s stone floor. Find out what archaeologists unearthed and how researchers are using new discoveries of the building’s foundations to learn more about how Notre Dame was constructed.