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08/03/2024
Happy International Women’s Day from all of us at the IPOL team! 💐
Today, we celebrate the incredible achievements of women around the world. We’re reminded of the inspiring conversations we’ve had with remarkable women on our podcast, including Ally Capellino, Maya Njie, Nadia Tuma-Weldon, Margaret MacLeod, and many more. Let’s continue to uplift and support each other, today and every day.
Here’s to strong women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.
31/12/2023
🎉 Happy New Year from the IPOL Team! 🎊
As we bid farewell to a remarkable year, we can’t help but reflect on the milestones we’ve achieved together. 2023 was a year of inspiration, growth, and connection:
✨ 30 captivating episodes of the IPOL podcast, each one a journey of knowledge and insight.
🌟 The 6th IPOL Conference, where minds met and ideas flourished.
📚 Two impactful editions of Luxury Studies, enriching the realm of academia in our IPOL Journal published by Intellect.
Each of these achievements was a step forward in our collective journey, and none of it would have been possible without your unwavering support and enthusiasm.
As we step into 2024, the horizon is bright with possibilities. We’re already brewing exciting plans, and we can’t wait to share them with you. Stay tuned for all the groundbreaking updates we have in store!
Thank you for being an integral part of our IPOL family. Your engagement, feedback, and passion fuel our commitment to excellence. Let’s make 2024 a year of even greater achievements, deeper connections, and boundless learning.
Wishing you a fantastic year ahead filled with joy, success, and endless opportunities. Here’s to a dazzling 2024! 🌟
With heartfelt gratitude,
The IPOL Team
14/09/2023
This has been a long time coming. I'm so pleased to speak with .matters_grant.gibson one of the UK’s leading design, craft and architecture writers. His work has been published in The Observer, New Statesman, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, and House & Garden, to name just a few. We had a great chat, even tho he never mentioned the word luxury... he did with me
During a long career in magazines, Grant has been editor of Blueprint, deputy editor of FX, and acting executive editor of the RIBA Journal. More recently he has been editor of Crafts and a contributing editor of the Dutch architecture title MARK. He was also the launch editor of the London Design Festival Guide and co-founded Real to Reel, the UK’s first film festival devoted to making.
In 2019, he launched the critically acclaimed podcast, Material Matters with Grant Gibson. Three years later the show was transformed into a new fair at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf. Material Matters 2023 takes place at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf from 20-23 September. It's definitely worth a visit.
05/09/2023
Now Available: Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal Volume 2, Numbers 1 & 2.
With thanks to our Guest Editor
And contributions from
Published by the journal provides invaluable insight into the luxury supply chain, enhancing the impact of research in the area of luxury. The accumulation of new knowledge generated from the journal will have direct impact on how luxury is defined and will contribute to the understanding of a wide range of issues both academic and industry related.
Link available in our bio.
31/05/2023
We are thrilled to have Gordon Ritchie the Managing Director of on the line-up for the IPOL Conference 2023. With our theme of Luxury Endangered we can't think of a more relevant speaker to have joining us.
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Founded in Scotland in 1805 on the River Don in Aberdeenshire, Crombie has been the choice of Royalty, Presidents and pop stars. It ceased trading at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and was acquired by Gordon and his partners early in 2022.
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Gordon has a history with the company. He was Head of Wholesale at between 2011 and 2014 and was responsible for getting it into the best stores in the world in some 35 countries. He also introduced new product lines including rainwear, knitwear, leather goods and accessories.
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The aim now is to inject new energy into Crombie and reintroduce it to the world.
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26/05/2023
It's nearly time! Join us for the annual IPOL Conference ‘LUXURY ENDANGERED’ and be part of the conversation.
🗓 1st-3rd June
📍The Oxo Tower, Bargehouse, London
🎟 Via eventbrite 🔗 link in bio.
The IPoL ‘Luxury Endangered’ conference interrogates the notion of luxury in an age where bold brand narratives often take precedence over crafted product.
🗣 Our lineup includes:
Organisers: Shaun Borstrock & Veronica Manlow
Keynote: Theo Fennell, Jeweller
Margaret MacLeod, Director, Harris Tweed Hebrides
Kathryn Sargent - Tailor
Sacha Rose, CEO - Derek Rose
Gordon Ritchie, Managing Director - Crombie
Peter Bellerby, CEO, Bellerby & Co Globemakers
Maria Grachvogel, Designer
Mark Bloomfield
Silvio Carta
Special guest, Professor Christopher Berry, in conversation with Veronica Manlow about his seminal book, The Idea of Luxury.
🎓 Running alongside this is our educational programme of FREE jewellery-making workshops, where teens will be making pieces from Argentium silver to take home. More info in bio.
A big thank you to our partners:
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23/05/2023
With half-term upon us, there are still places left on our FREE Jewellery Workshops at London's Bargehouse.
🎓 These Two Hour & 3-day Workshops are a great opportunity for teenagers aged 14-18. They will each make a piece of silver jewellery to take home. All materials are included. They just need to bring themselves!
🔎 2-Hour Workshop - Make a Silver Woven Bracelet.
Dates: 1-3 June, 11:00 - 13:00 & 14:00 - 16:00
You will make a silver bracelet from Argentium silver, an easy-to-use precious metal. The tutor is Roger Taylor, an experienced jewellery tutor who has taught at the Royal College of Art, and worked with some of the most prominent jewellers in the UK.
No previous metalworking skills are needed.
🔎 3-Day Workshop – Make a Silver Crown Pendant.
Dates: 1-3 June. 9:30 - 15:00
Unleash your creativity, and gain experience and confidence in our accelerated learning programme. Through interactive and practical learning, students will experience the superior nature of Argentium Silver, an easy-to-use precious metal. Each participant will produce a distinct and personally hand-crafted item of jewellery.
No previous metalworking skills are needed.
Lunch Provided.
These educational programmes are part of the Luxury Universe / Luxury Endangered conference at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower in London, 1-3 June. In conjunction with our partners:
Booking essential.
🔗 Link In Bio
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06/03/2023
This week on the In Pursuit of Luxury Podcast we are delighted to revisit our conversation with British Master Tailor, Kathryn Sargent as our finale for Season 7.
Kathryn started her career in the wonderful world of tailoring at Gieves & Hawkes in 1996, rising to the position of Head Cutter, the first woman to do so in the entire history of Savile Row. She founded her own tailoring house in 2012 and is the world’s only female Master Tailor. Breaking tradition, she offers tailoring for both men and women focusing on the needs of the client rather than a set house style.
Join us revisiting this fantastic conversation with Kathryn Sargent to close our season focused on fashion. You can subscribe to get future episodes direct to your device on Spotify, Apple, Google or Amazon Podcasts. You will find a link in our bio.
01/03/2023
Early bird tickets are still available for Luxury Endangered, our fantastic conference event at the Oxo Tower on the Southbank in London.
This week we are delighted to announce another speaker for IPOL 2023, British Fashion Designer Maria Grachvogel.
Grachvogel is obsessed with the idea that clothing can transform your body, your mood and your confidence. She experiments with innovative cutting, always keeping the woman who wears the clothing front of mind.
Maria is personally committed to preserving the craft of luxury fashion and is working with a technology partner to reimagine the future of fashion. One could easily describe her as a fashion architect instinctively interested in materials, shape, form and flow.
Join us on 1-2 June for Luxury Endangered, where we will have engaging discussions with Maria and other fantastic guest speakers. Please join us and contribute to the conversation.
Early bird tickets can be purchased from the IPOL website or Eventbrite. You will find links to both of these options in our bio. We look forward to seeing you all there!
22/02/2023
Early bird tickets are now available for Luxury Endangered, our fantastic conference event at the Oxo Tower on the Southbank in London.
Today we are delighted to announce our first speaker for IPOL 2023, Peter Bellerby. He is the founder of Bellerby & Co Globemakers, the bespoke globemakers based in London.
The company has its roots in Peter's search for a globe for his father’s 80th birthday. Fortunately for us he was unhappy with everything he found on the market, so he set out to make one himself. More than a decade later Peter employs a team of 20 that include cartographers, illustrators, engravers, woodworkers, painters, and makers.
Peter's journey is inspiring, and one that epitomises the drive to preserve dying craft and craftsmanship.
Join us on 1-2 June for Luxury Endangered, where we will have engaging discussions with Peter and other fantastic guest speakers. Please join us and contribute to the conversation.
Early bird tickets can be purchased from the IPOL website or Eventbrite. You will find links to both of these options in our bio. We look forward to seeing you all there!
14/02/2023
For our next episode on the In Pursuit of Luxury Podcast we are delighted to welcome Kenya Hunt.
Kenya Hunt is the Editor-in-Chief of ELLE UK. Kenya’s career spans working for some of the most influential women’s titles on both sides of the Atlantic. From her post-graduate days as an Assistant Editor at the seminal magazine, Jane, to her time as Deputy Editor of Grazia UK and ELLE UK. She has written for some of the most prestigious publications in the world including The Washington Post, The Guardian, Essence, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Refinery29 and The Evening Standard. She has also appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour, and Sky News.
As the founder of R.O.O.M. Mentoring, she advocates for greater diversity within the fashion industry by providing a supportive network for some of the many talented aspiring designers, journalists and image makers of colour London has to offer. In 2021, she was recognised by The British Fashion Council for her work and awarded a Global Leader Of Change Award.
Join us later this week for our fantastic conversation with Kenya Hunt. You can subscribe to get future episodes direct to your device on Spotify, Apple, Google or Amazon Podcasts. You will find a link in our bio.
01/02/2023
On the In Pursuit of Luxury Podcast this week, we are delighted to welcome bespoke tailor T Michael.
T Michael is a bespoke tailor/ designer /artist with a conceptual approach to men’s tailoring inspired by his love of sartorial traditions and his passionate quest for a different narrative within tailoring, design and creativity, that celebrates stylistic and cultural diversities present in today's zeitgeist. He is known for his meticulous attention to details and for his garments’ impeccable construction.
T Michael’s work include: The T KIMONO, NORWEGIAN RAIN and his eponymous label T-MICHAEL.
Join us for a thoroughly engaging chat as we discuss the influence of Japan, different things that inspire his creativity and not being inspired by fashion.
You can listen and subscribe for new episodes when they go live on Spotify, Apple, Google or Amazon Podcasts via the link in our bio.
24/01/2023
There’s still time to submit your paper for consideration for Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal Special Issue in collaboration with Luxury Plus Summit.
Sustainability, a word never heard in a luxury industry conference a decade ago, is now centre-stage in contemporary discourse. European regulators have declared war on fast fashion forcing a rethink of the throwaway culture that has dominated the 21 st century clothing industry and promising to reshape supply chains that reach deeply into Asia. Technology has opened up new fronts of change too. Synthetic diamonds and leather have entered the luxury world creating new tensions between natural and artificial, as part of the race for environmental salvation.
At the 2022 Luxury Plus Summit in London, we sought to reveal through collective investigation the new frontiers of luxury. Bringing together policy-makers, designers, CEOs, academics and activists we opened the doors to a cross-disciplinary conversation never encountered before at a luxury Summit level. The synthesis of the collective voices has yielded an amazingly rich dialogue.
It is therefore with great pleasure that we invite participants from the entire spectrum of luxury, fashion, economics, consumer behaviour, technology, sustainability and beyond, to submit contributions to this very special edition of the In Pursuit of Luxury Journal, due for release later in 2023.
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2023
We publish our journal twice a year and welcome submissions directly to the Intellect Books newgen portal. You will find a link in our bio to our website containing more information and guidance how to submit your paper.
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23/01/2023
We are delighted to announce the official book launch of ‘Crafting Luxury: Craftsmanship, Manufacture, Technology and the Retail Environment’. Authored by Mark Bloomfield, Shaun Borstrock, Silvio Carta and Veronica Manlow, analyses and explores issues and debates surrounding the idea of luxury.
Featuring contributions from industry leaders including jeweller Theo Fennell and milliner Stephen Jones, this original research interrogates contentious issues surrounding perceptions of luxury and explores production and supply chain integrity, contemporary branding, consumer impacts and much more.
Crafting Luxury is a true insider’s view of a complex world and will appeal to all who are interested in both fashion and design. It offers a fresh, unique and comprehensive insight into one of the world's largest and most lucrative industries.
Renowned British jewellery designer Theo Fennell will be introducing the book as our special guest for the evening.
The event will take place on Thursday 26th January 2023 between 6pm-9pm at the iconic Oxo Tower Wharf design destination on London’s South Bank.
Entry to the event is free but limited, please email [email protected] for availability.
23/01/2023
We are delighted to announce the official book launch of ‘Crafting Luxury: Craftsmanship, Manufacture, Technology and the Retail Environment’. Authored by Mark Bloomfield, Shaun Borstrock, Silvio Carta and Veronica Manlow, analyses and explores issues and debates surrounding the idea of luxury.
Featuring contributions from industry leaders including jeweller Theo Fennell and milliner Stephen Jones, this original research interrogates contentious issues surrounding perceptions of luxury and explores production and supply chain integrity, contemporary branding, consumer impacts and much more.
Crafting Luxury is a true insider’s view of a complex world and will appeal to all who are interested in both fashion and design. It offers a fresh, unique and comprehensive insight into one of the world's largest and most lucrative industries.
Renowned British jewellery designer Theo Fennell will be introducing the book as our special guest for the evening.
The event will take place on Thursday 26th January 2023 between 6pm-9pm at the iconic Oxo Tower Wharf design destination on London’s South Bank.
Entry to the event is free but limited, please email [email protected] for availability.
18/01/2023
Our next episode of the In Pursuit of Luxury Podcast is approaching. We have a fantastic conversation with embroiderer Jenny King incoming later this week.
Jenny King has run an established embroidery studio for 20 years. Specialising in free hand satin stitch embroidery created on Irish machines the studio offers all aspects of design and development, production and bespoke.
Jenny King Embroidery now counts amongst its clients and ever-growing list of high profile designers including Erdem, Vivienne Westwood, Aspinal of London, Roksanda, JW Anderson and Olivia Von Halle. As well as developing embroidery for clients in the fashion industry the studio also works with interior designs, artists and a number of Theatre, Film and costume designers including Royal Opera House, Shakespeare's Globe and Royal Shakespeare Company.
You can listen and subscribe for new episodes when they go live on Spotify, Apple, Google or Amazon Podcasts via the link in our bio.
30/12/2022
I once asked Vivienne Westwood what she thought of luxury... 'it's all a lot of rubbish' she said
RIP Vivienne Westwood
24/12/2022
Happy Holidays!
Have a luxurious 2023!
From the IPOL Team.
07/12/2022
Now Available: Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal Volume 1, Number 2.
Article Spotlight:
Luxury leather goods and alternative leather: Risk and growth opportunities
Luca Solca.
“As luxury brands rely so heavily on leather goods this can put them at a disadvantage as consumers delve deeper into the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) performance of luxury brands. A shift to alternative raw materials is underway and this will offset risks, benefitting the larger groups.”
Published by the journal provides invaluable insight into the luxury supply chain, enhancing the impact of research in the area of luxury. The accumulation of new knowledge generated from the journal will have direct impact on how luxury is defined and will contribute to the understanding of a wide range of issues both academic and industry related.
Link available in our bio.
30/11/2022
Now Available: Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal Volume 1, Number 2.
Article Spotlight:
The Imaginary of Luxury
Frédéric Monneyron and Patrick Mathieu.
“In this short article, Patrick Mathieu and Frédéric Monneyron offer a new analysis of luxury they have developed in their noted book, L’Imaginaire du luxe (Imago, 2015). Their study is grounded on the idea that luxury is always a way of keeping death away and that luxury is a matter of images more than objects.”
Published by the journal provides invaluable insight into the luxury supply chain, enhancing the impact of research in the area of luxury. The accumulation of new knowledge generated from the journal will have direct impact on how luxury is defined and will contribute to the understanding of a wide range of issues both academic and industry related.
Link available in our bio.
16/11/2022
Coming Soon: In Pursuit of Luxury Podcast Season 7: Fashion.
You can subscribe to listen to all previous episodes and get notified of new episodes as they go live, on our website or on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Google Podcasts.
Links to all platforms are available via the link in our bio.
16/11/2022
Coming Soon: In Pursuit of Luxury Podcast Season 7: Fashion.
You can subscribe to listen to all previous episodes and get notified of new episodes as they go live, on our website or on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Google Podcasts.
Links to all platforms are available via the link in our bio.
