The Week According to YUNG

Chanel unveils its Holiday 2025 digital platform, transforming five of the House’s most iconic symbols, the lion, camellia, comet, wheat, and pearls, into a shimmering constellation in a star-filled winter sky. Reinterpreted as celestial guides, each emblem carries a symbolic superpower, strength, harmony, hope, prosperity, and radiance, helping gift-seekers discover meaningful treasures for the season.

At the heart of the experience lies a curated universe of Chanel’s most beloved fragrances, illuminated like stars in a midnight galaxy. Each scent becomes an enchanted offering, embodying emotion as much as elegance, designed to connect deeply with both giver and receiver. Through digital storytelling, animation, and symbolic mysticism, the platform transforms holiday gifting into a poetic journey where meaning meets magic. With cosmic wonder at its core, Chanel Holiday 2025 invites you to choose more than a gift, but a guiding star.

Ray-Ban Meta has launched its new global campaign, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, starring Doja Cat and Teyana Taylor. Directed by Lope Serrano and shot by photographers William Arcand with cinematography by Larkin Seiple and Chris Ripley, the campaign celebrates a new era of hands-free creative expression powered by the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2smart glasses.

In Los Angeles, Doja Cat cruises through the city capturing moments with cinematic clarity, soundtracked by her latest single Gorgeous. In New York, Teyana Taylor dances through her neighbourhood, embracing hands-free capture without missing a beat. Both highlight the glasses as a natural extension of their creative flow and everyday style. Blending Ray-Ban’s signature design with Meta’s AI innovation, Gen 2 offers twice the battery life, a 3K ultra-wide 12MP camera, and AI features including live translation, hyperlapse, and slow motion. Available in new colourways and classic silhouettes, the campaign signals a generation that creates instinctively, proving the future of vision is already here.

Giorgio Armani continues its That’s So Armani project this Autumn/Winter with a celebration of individuality and timeless menswear codes. Photographed by Gorka Postigo, the new chapter spotlights cultural protagonists who reinterpret Armani classics through personal expression. Following Bakar and Maisie Peters, actor Edgar Ramírez leads the latest campaign, with dancer Francesca Hayward and artist Rocco Ritchie to follow, ahead of more faces in 2026. The initiative reinforces Armani’s signature ethos: fluid, genderless elegance shaped by the wearer. In parallel, the house has opened a dedicated pop-up in Dubai Mall (until 16 November), echoing the global boutique concept and showcasing a curated wardrobe of soft tailoring, luxurious vicuña, cashmere and superfine wool pieces. The collection includes deconstructed blazers, tuxedos, trench coats, knitwear, and everyday staples in a refined palette of navy, black, and chocolate. Available globally and on armani.com.

Nour Arida is redefining beauty with the launch of her new skincare brand, Sorbé, debuting on November 16 on Sorbeskin.com. Designed for life on the move, Sorbé introduces a multi-effect, on-the-go skincare approach rooted in a powerful philosophy: real beauty starts with feeling better, not trying harder. Arida saw a missing narrative in fashion and beauty. While diversity has broadened in race, body types, and skin tones, the imagery of women remains one-note, posed, smiling, and composed. The reality of exhaustion, stress, insecurity, or emotional flux remains erased. For decades, women have been conditioned to mask fatigue, silence discomfort, and strive toward unattainable ideals. Sorbé challenges all of it. More than skincare, it represents a cultural shift, one that embraces emotional complexity rather than concealing it. Built on the belief that joy, stress, desire, grief, and doubt are layers of womanhood, not imperfections, Sorbé merges science with emotional wellness. It’s a new beauty era: authentic, intuitive, and beautifully human.

Byredo captures the soul of Scandinavian winter in its Holiday 2025 collection, set against Nordic peaks where scent, ritual, and connection take centre stage. The campaign blends cinematic wonder, sleighs, snowfall, and a perfume-bottle igloo, with the warmth of shared moments. At its heart is a whimsical Advent Calendar, a three-tiered bento box revealing 24 miniature Byredo icons, from Gypsy Water to Bal d’Afrique, candles, hand creams, hair perfume, and the Midnight pocket mirror. A limited-edition Winter Cabin candle evokes fireside nostalgia with birch, vetiver, patchouli, and amber. Seasonal Byproduct home pieces extend the visual language, scarves, blankets, and ornaments in bold hues of blue, green, grenadine, wrapped with graphic motifs inspired by childhood joy. More than gifting, the collection celebrates slower rituals, sensory intimacy, and togetherness, unfolding a poetic season of warmth and generosity through scent and design.

Balenciaga unveils the debut campaign from Pierpaolo Piccioli, captured through intimate portraits by photographer Hanna Moon. The images herald a new chapter for the House, one centred on emotion, individuality, and understated presence. Shot across the streets of Paris, the campaign introduces a redefined Balenciaga woman: spontaneous yet grounded, sensitive yet self-assured, moving with quiet confidence through the everyday.

Singer Dana Hourani embodies Piccioli’s vision, poised, instinctive, and authentic, wearing silhouettes that merge fluidity with architecture, ease with intention. The imagery reflects Piccioli’s enduring belief that beauty is emotional before it is visual.

At the core of the campaign stand two defining House codes: the Rodeo and Le City bags. Symbols of duality, the Rodeo speaks to modern individuality and urban motion, while Le City anchors timeless craftsmanship and cultural resonance. Together, they translate Balenciaga’s legacy into a future shaped by intimacy, humanity, and renewed purpose.

Boucheron appoints Charlotte Le Bon as its new Maison Ambassador, celebrating her as an artist, actress, and director whose creative spectrum mirrors the house’s boundary-pushing spirit. Born in Quebec and now rooted in Paris, Le Bon has worked with directors including Robert Zemeckis and Lars von Trier, while also establishing herself as a visual artist working in oil painting, lithography, and analogue photography, often exploring nature, duality, and emotional tension. She wrote and directed Judith Hotel and her debut film Falcon Lake, earning critical acclaim and the Louis Delluc Prize. She most recently portrayed Niki de Saint-Phalle at Cannes 2024. A long-time admirer of Boucheron’s fearless codes, she joins a legacy of women who embody independence and creativity. The partnership includes global activations and campaign appearances, including a film alongside Coleman Domingo, reinforcing Boucheron’s cultural dialogue between jewellery, cinema, and art.

Tiffany & Co. launches its 2025 Holiday campaign, Love Is a Gift, starring brand ambassador Anya Taylor-Joy. Directed by Jonas Lindstroem and photographed by Carlijn Jacobs, the cinematic journey follows Taylor-Joy from Los Angeles to London, Tokyo, and finally New York, witnessing intimate exchanges of the iconic Tiffany Blue Box. The campaign celebrates love in all its forms, romantic, familial, and personal, culminating on snow-dusted NYC streets at The Landmark. Elegant, cinematic, and emotionally driven, the narrative reinforces Tiffany’s heritage as the ultimate symbol of gifting, ritual, and affection. Rolling out globally across digital and social platforms, the campaign pairs heartfelt storytelling with a season of sparkle, connection, and timeless luxury, where the box isn’t just a gift, but a moment of meaning.

Moschino FW25 transforms power dressing with a rebellious twist, channelling corporate chic with couture irreverence. The collection balances razor-sharp tailoring with playful provocation, reimagining blazers, pleated minis, cropped trousers, and sculptural accessories through bold proportions and tactile embellishments. Metallic details, gilded jewellery, and sculptural hardware elevate traditional office codes into a new language of fearless glamour. Precision meets personality as Moschino champions confidence over conformity, structured silhouettes tempered by wit, attitude, and unpredictability. FW25 doesn’t rewrite the rules of power dressing, it decorates them, delivering a wardrobe for those who lead with character, command attention effortlessly, and dress not just for the boardroom, but for impact.

AÏZA debuts Eliksir, a two-part bi-phase serum system that merges modern actives with ancient Arab beauty rituals. Designed to address dullness, uneven tone, hyperpigmentation, and early aging, both formulas activate when shaken, transforming skincare into a sensorial daily ritual. Eliksir Brightening unites saffron, honey and light-stable Vitamin C to illuminate and hydrate, while Eliksir Revitalizing combines myrrh, fig, bakuchiol and adenosine to firm, smooth, and strengthen the skin barrier. Inspired by the region’s rose heritage and crafted for visible radiance, the serums champion efficiency without complexity. Priced at AED 255 each and available on www.aiza.co, the launch reflects a new wave of Middle Eastern beauty, rooted in tradition, elevated by science, and designed for glow that feels intentional, considered, and enduring.

Dior reinvents its Icons capsule for Spring 2026 with a wardrobe rooted in structure, purity, and quiet luxury. The collection champions meticulous savoir-faire through streamlined silhouettes, impeccable fabrication, and subtle detailing. Long coats, refined shirts, and tactile knits form the backbone of the line-up, bridging minimalism with heritage craft. Accessories continue the dialogue: the new mini Dior Normandie bag features suede linings embossed with the Dior Oblique motif in black, grey and cognac, while Dior Regency shoes reveal Cannage soles and the B01 Matchpoint sneakers introduce curved, contemporary proportions. The result is a master class in restraint, where luxury speaks through cut, material, and finish rather than adornment. Timeless, modern, and quietly powerful, the collection is available in Dior boutiques worldwide now.

Jimmy Choo reveals its redesigned Dubai Mall flagship, a sensorial evolution combining modern glamour, art, and architectural softness. Designed by Nebihe Cihan Studio, the boutique reflects the city’s bold energy through sculptural lines, lush materials, and curated collectible art. Highlights include the Brugmansia ceiling lamp (Christian Pellizzari for Nilufar), Agatha table (Draga & Aurel), Dyad tables (Florence Louisy), and bespoke furnishings by Nebihe Cihan. Anchoring the space is Symmetrical Repeats, a steel sculpture by Emirati artist Shaikha Al Mazrou, commissioned exclusively for the store.

The redesign embodies Jimmy Choo’s house codes, luminous, daring, culturally connected, while creating an immersive retail destination where fashion meets art, craft, and emotional resonance.

And that was The Week According to YUNG.

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