In this exclusive interview, Silhouette CEO Christian Bachler speaks with The Silent Luxury about purity, Austrian production, Titan Minimal Art, smart frames and the long term meaning of trust in luxury eyewear.

Carlo Petrini, Italian journalist, gastronome and founder of Slow Food, died in Bra, Piedmont, on 21 May 2026, aged seventy-six. Over four decades, he transformed the act of eating into a political philosophy: buono, pulito e giusto — good, clean and fair. His legacy reaches through 160 countries, 5,300 food traditions and the first university of gastronomy in the world.

In January 2021, Lady Gaga stood on the steps of the United States Capitol in a shocking-pink silk faille skirt four metres wide and a gilded Schiaparelli dove brooch. The gesture was deliberate — and entirely in keeping with a house founded by a woman who understood that a dress is never merely a dress. It is an argument.

Tanja Storchli on the Oriental Stork, a year of drawing and wearing, and the Boyciana, the new CICONIIDAE model that its wearer shapes from the very first touch. Tanja Storchli welcomes us in her atelier …