Ryan Korban: Luxury Redefined

"The new notion of luxury incorporates the use of luxury," Ryan Korban writes at the beginning of the book. "Younger people want to live the way they dress; not everything needs to be polished and precise."

Korban designed Alexander Wang's SoHo store with this infamous fur hammock. "He's one of the very few people with taste I trust," Korban told Out in 2011. Korban has since designed Wang's TriBeCa apartment and his showroom, along with the new Men's and Women's Balenciaga flagship stores in SoHo.

Animal skins and taxidermy constitute a large part of his design language and are used to create a visceral reaction

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