The TOMMY HILFIGER Chinese New Year collection sets a sophisticated tone, marrying the brand’s heritage DNA with elevated, modern styles. The collection features a bold re-interpretation of the brand’s iconic color palette, with deeper hues, the introduction of a tonal black, and gold embellishments in the embroidery to heighten the festive spirit. Sophisticated styles, luxurious materials and elevated, sustainable designs extend through the full collection, and the tradition of gift giving is highlighted through an expanded assortment of gifting products and premium gift boxes, adding to the festivity of the occasion.
Featuring separate offerings for TOMMY HILFIGER and TOMMY JEANS, the special capsule harnesses the joyful and celebratory spirit of the festival with Tommy Hilfiger’s iconic brand DNA. This year, following two years of uncertainty and misfortune across the world, Tommy Hilfiger is embracing the sense of hope and optimism the holiday brings, and channeling the fierce spirit of the tiger into the collection. Building on the occasion of Chinese New Year, the collection reimagines the classic Tommy Hilfiger monogram and varsity-style graphics with the addition of exclusively created tiger graphics and Asian-style florals.
Key Menswear pieces include the archival hooded parka, updated in black matte silicon with red inner lining; and the letterman cardigan featuring premium varsity-inspired detailing and an embroidered tiger on the back. Key Womenswear includes the reversible bomber jacket, with an all-over monogram print on one side and an understated classic navy on the other.
Powering this state-of-the-art clock is a beautiful L’Epée 1839 hour-striking movement with an eight-day power reserve. In contrast to many of the other MB&F × L’Epée clocks, the movement is not perceivable from the outside. But the perfectly formed sphere invites the viewer into the mechanical heart of the piece and the discovery of the movement. The eight-day calibre can be seen just slightly through the curved aluminium dial covered by a domed mineral glass, which has a hole in the centre to allow the setting of the time with a special key. There are two barrels, one for the time and the other for the striking of the hours, that are wound separately. The hour mechanism doesn’t just chime the passage of the hour, but indicates the actual hour, like a church clock. This function can also be repeated on demand via a button on the side of the clock, or turned on and off if required. This new hour-striking development is based on a similar mechanism used in L’Epée 1839’s historic carriage clocks. In France, these are known as “Officer’s clocks” as legend has it that when Napoleon almost lost a battle because one of his officers was late, he ordered all of his military chiefs to carry a carriage clock with them at all times.
The word orb comes from the Latin orbis, meaning “circle” or “disk”. The word is also the basis of the word “orbit”, a word that has stayed in the modern-day vernacular even if orbits are now known to be elliptical and not at all round. Orbs are also used today in fanfiction to mean eyes, as in “cerulean orbs” that designate blue eyes or “chocolate orbs” for brown eyes – a nod to perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when we first lay eyes on the Orb. Dedicated to making high-end clocks, L’Epée has been a prominent Swiss Manufacture for over 180 years. Founded in 1839 by Auguste L’Epée in France’s Besançon region, the company originally focused on producing music boxes and watch components and became synonymous at the time with entirely handmade pieces. From 1850, L’Epée became a leading light in the production of ‘platform’ escapements, creating regulators especially for alarm and table clocks and musical watches. It became a well-known specialist owning a large number of patents on exceptional escapements and the chief supplier of escapements to several celebrated watchmakers of the day. L’Epée has won a number of gold medals at international exhibitions. During the 20th century, L’Epée owed much of its reputation to its superlative carriage clocks; for many, the clock of the influential and powerful in addition to being the gift of choice of French government officials to elite guests. In 1976 when the Concorde supersonic aircraft entered commercial service, L’Epée wall clocks were chosen to furnish the cabins, providing passengers with the time. In 1994, L’Epée showed its thirst for a challenge when it built the world’s biggest clock with a compensated pendulum, the Giant Regulator, which was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records.
