What is modern luxury? Increasingly, it’s anchored in the cultural conversation. Fashion, in particular, has become ever more entwined with art. But will we ever see James Turrell doing a fashion collaboration? I suspect the answer’s no. Raised as a Quaker in a faith rooted in meditative contemplation, Turrell creates installations that speak to a spirituality increasingly absent in the cultural conversation, and that the world of fashion would find hard to replicate. Nevertheless, he has some very fashionable collectors. A piece of his sits outside the door of the London outpost of The Row. 

Yet if time and nature are truly the greatest luxury, Turrell is ironically its greatest advocate. As he unveils a huge new work in Aarhus, Denmark, the artist (now 83, and still in his cowboy boots) talks to Tom Faber about his work. It’s hard to imagine now that it took a while to find a mainstream audience. Today 100 of his light installations can be found around the world. We talk to him and the gallerists, curators and collectors who have made him the art world’s most radiant name. 

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More tangible: hard luxury – and the rocks worn on our cover by Greta Lee. The actor has been an ambassador for Tiffany & Co for three years now, and I can think of few people who wear high jewellery so well. 

Lee is entering a purple period, featuring in three films in as many months. Like Turrell, she was not an overnight sensation – she got her breakout role in the Oscar-nominated Past Lives at 39. Megan Nolan met her in New York when she was coordinating a major gala dinner, a busy press schedule and a school concert. She’s entered another tier of fame this year, but has the sense to keep it real.

I’m also thrilled to introduce Tim Hayward to our pages. Best known to FT readers as a food columnist, for HTSI he writes about the world of customisable computer keyboards and his attempt to build a perfect model of his own. It started with a board inspired by his grandad’s 1952 Oliver portable typewriter. That soon led to meeting obscure experts, including the particularly clandestine Sho, a man of such exacting standards that he was happy to oblige Tim’s request for a metal casing that could polish up like “the engine block on a 1963 ‘lightweight’ E-Type Jaguar”.

I suspect Tim might not quite have completed his keyboard journey. He’s got three boards in production currently. This could become a costly habit. Bespoke keyboards – the apotheosis of modern luxury?

This week also saw the arrival of Matthieu Blazy’s debut Métiers d’art collection in store. It was first staged on a New York subway platform and delivered a vast diversity of looks against the backdrop of a train. At an event on Thursday, I talked with Laura Bailey and stylist Nell Kalonji about the collection and what made it so good. It must have been, considering he’s got me wearing leopard print for the first time. Laura was wearing scarlet. Such is the Blazy effect. The designer has, in a few short months, transformed the fashion conversation, and offered up a playful challenge to women – and increasingly men – to think of new ways to dress themselves. The market reaction has been stellar: just try to get Chanel pumps right now. Revisit my interview with the designer from February to read more about the Blazy bounce.

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