Stéphane Ashpool: “I Do, And I Think After”

also Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak Mini, MSCHF's high heel shower slides, Birkenstock's Paris Store and rice perfume trend. In this [FRONTPAGE]( interview, we find out what makes the founder of Pigalle, Stéphane Ashpool, tick. From basketball courts and his community to creative chaos and his home country, enter the magical world of the French designer. “My motto is to use fashion as a medium to create different things.” - Stéphane Ashpool. [READ MORE](   WATCHES THE AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK MINI NEEDS NO EXTRA ICE By Brynn Wallner © HIGHSNOBIETY / ELINOR KRY In June, Audemars Piguet revived the[Royal Oak Mini]( a frosted gold 23mm iteration of its even tinier 1997 predecessor. To the peanut gallery, this might be just another Royal Oak, the collection AP is indeed synonymous with; but to those of us tapped in, this watch, like its ad copy calls out, is “mini yet mighty.” Wrapped up in this teeny tiny package is the story of one woman’s immense impact on Audemars Piguet and how, now, mini watches are the moment. [READ MORE](   SNEAKERS MSCHF'S NEXT STEP? HIGH HEELS MADE OF SHOWER SLIDES By Jake Silbert © MSCHF MSCHF's Flipped Flop, a slide sandal-turned high heel modeled by buzzy celeb interviewer Bobbi Althoff, will inevitably draw comparisons to the [Big Red Boot]( that broke the internet just over a year ago. But MSCHF's Chief Creative Officers, Lukas Bentel and Kevin Wiesner, believe that it shouldn't. "The core of our process is simply that we design footwear that we think is interesting," Bentel and Wiesner tells Highsnobiety. "The Big Red Boot was, is, and continues to be one design in MSCHF's ongoing footwear exploration, which has always been an iterative project for us; we're going to keep making things that are completely different from each other." In other words, take MSCHF's Flipped Flop as it is. But what even is it? [READ MORE](   STYLE BIRKENSTOCK'S FIRST PARIS STORE IS MORE THAN SANDALS By Aerin Daniel © BIRKENSTOCK / MAARTEN WILLEMSTEIN Welcome to Paris, Birkenstock. On July 20, the beloved fashionably functional shoe brand will open its inaugural Paris store. And it's much more than just another place to cop the Birkenstock's quality clogs ([its beautiful hybrids]( too). "2024 is a special year for BIRKENSTOCK as this is the year we celebrate 250 years of shoemaking tradition. What better way to celebrate this than by setting up our first retail store in Paris"? Nico Bouyakhf, President and Managing Director Birkenstock Europe, tells us. [READ MORE](   BEAUTY RICE IS PERFUME’S NEW FAVORITE COMFORT FOOD By Alexandra Pauly © HIGHSNOBIETY Even casual perfume consumers know that gourmands, fragrances with edible notes, are [all the rage](. From Giardini di Toscana’s honey-caramel Bianco Latte to Tom Ford’s [almond-tonka bean Vanilla Sex]( the most buzzed-about perfumes of the past year smell decadently delicious. But it seems our taste for mouth-watering scents is shifting away from sugary desserts to something subtler. Enter perfumery’s new favorite note: rice. [READ MORE](   WE WANT YOUR OPINION [JOIN OUR SURVEY NOW]( [LATEST STORIES]( [SNEAKER TRENDS]( [STYLE]( [CULTURE]( [BEAUTY]( [SHOP]( Download the Highsnobiety App [Instagram]( [TikTok]( [Discord]( [Twitter]( [Youtube]( [Facebook]( © 2023 Highsnobiety, Genthiner Str. 32-34, Berlin 10785, Germany This email was sent to {EMAIL}. You can [unsubscribe]( from this list. [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms & Conditions]( | [View In Browser](