The seed for Athene Club was sowed amid the pandemic by two London-based photographers, Olivia Jankowska and Zaineb Abelque, who were craving nature and outdoor spaces but agreed that it often felt unsafe and unfriendly to explore as women. Driven to overcome this, they set out on their first hike, eventually paving the way Athene Club, a women-led collective rooted in a love for the outdoors.
Athene club considers its activities a sport, but slow burning ones. It is a club through which one can not only reap the rewards of movement and nature but can also expect to build friendships, experiences and a close-knit community. With most hikes capped between four to five hours, Athene Club hopes to inspire those women that might be discouraged from entering a space predominantly dominated by middle-class white men. Athene Club’s community elevates hiking into an unforgettable experience filled with swims, skinny dips and a lot of laughter.
William Kapp, MD, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon in the US and an expert in diagnosing and treating conditions impacting muscles, bones and joints, as well as sports injuries. Dr Kapp’s passion is finding new technologies and processes that can expedite healthcare from reactive to proactive. This explains his endeavours into multiple businesses including Fountain Life, which he co-founded with his partners with the mission of remaining ahead of the latest trends in health care.
Fountain Life continually evaluates new technologies to help members diagnose illness early – ultimately hoping to reverse the clocks on aging. It delivers the most advanced diagnostics and therapeutics to those who seek a longer, healthier and more vital life. ‘Currently, you only pay a doctor to take care of you after you’re broken, but we don’t pay a doctor to keep you healthy,’ Kapp tells LS:N Global. Fountain Life wants to reverse this by employing a root-cause analysis based on functional medicine to determine solutions that can optimise health.
Armoured by her experience working for the Grande Épicerie de Paris and French fashion house Bulgari, Gérosine Henriot proposed an initiative through LVMH’s DARE platform at the end of 2020 that looked at the enhancement of contextualised premium pieces from the luxury giant’s archive. This gave birth to Heristoria, a new digital sales platform launched with the backing of LVMH that sells not only a unique archive item but also an experience and story around style and craftsmanship.
Each item sold on the platform -whether that is wine, jewellery, fashion or more - will be accompanied by a handover-process at a meeting organised in a location of the chosen brand. In the world of LVMH this could mean a meeting in an haute couture workshop or a private visit to a Grand Cru cellar, followed by a private tasting. Henriot’s innovative, entrepreneurial solution offers luxury collectors the opportunity to engage with archive items in a more meaningful manner, delving not only into history but the luxe nostalgia that makes these items appealing in the first place.
Spinnova is the brainchild of Juha Salmela and Janne Poranen, who met back when they worked in micro cellulose research at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. It was through their investigation into whether wood fibre could be spun into a textile fibre bearing the same strength as a spider’s web, that paved the way for the creation of Spinnova.
Today, Spinnova is a leading innovator solving the environmental challenges of the textile industry with its patented sustainable textile fibre. It is created without harmful chemicals, pollution or waste. It has previously partnered with brands including Adidas, The North Face, H&M Group, Ecco and more, aiming to cement the role of sustainable textiles in the future of the fashion industry.
