Exploring modern elegance across London in the new LEPAS L8
London Design Festival, Navigated
Director of Photography kyle jones CREATIVE DIRECTION Nico Sarti Words Hugh Metcalf DESIGN OLIVER BOURNE
hat does elegance look like now? Increasingly, it is less about overt statements and more about considered choices, thoughtful design, quality, craft. and the confidence to do things differently. It is an idea at the heart of LEPAS, the new automotive brand bringing a distinctive perspective on modern elegance to the UK. Its flagship L8 embodies that thinking: a design-led vehicle where form, technology and craft come together with an understated confidence.
Global Brand Director Sarah Spiteri / @Sarah Spiteri
VP of Creative Alexa Wiley / @awiley_creative
Executive Director, Entertainment Jessica Baker / @jbake21
Director of Production Samantha Rockman / @rockman_productions
Photography Shane McCauley / @shanemccauley
stylist Danielle Goldberg / @daniellegoldberg Hair Stylist Irinel de Leon @ Mane Addicts / @hairinel
Makeup Artist Dana Delaney @ The Wall Group / @dana-delane
Manicurist Natalie Minerva @ Forward Artists / @natalieminervanails
Set Designer Cecilio Dolcetto Lara Ramirez / @dolcetto
Director / DP James Ollard @ Amusement Productions / @amusementproductions.la
Camera Assistant Nate Cuboi / @natecueboi Sound Mixer Jason Flaster / @jasonflaster Video Editor Tony Brown
Soho Design District, as explored by stylist Miaad Latoof
Shoreditch Design District, as explored by design writer Olivia Wolfe
Chelsea Design District, As explored by design writer Maya Glantz
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To explore what that philosophy means beyond the car itself, Livingetc has partnered with LEPAS for this year’s London Design Festival, taking the L8 across some of the capital’s most creative neighbourhoods and using the city as a backdrop to discover the people, places and ideas shaping contemporary design.
London Design Festival provides a natural setting for that conversation. Across the city, designers and makers are challenging established ideas of luxury, creating work that feels more intentional, individual and relevant to the way we live today.
The LEPAS L8 shares that same sensibility. From its distinctive exterior proportions to its carefully considered interior, the emphasis is on quality and detail rather than excess, a more contemporary expression of luxury built around confidence rather than status.
Under the philosophy ‘Drive Your Elegance’, LEPAS encourages people to define elegance on their own terms. Travelling through this year’s London Design Festival in the L8, our editorial team set out to discover what is driving elegance in design today and meet some of the creative thinkers redefining it along the way. Discover more at lepasauto.co.uk. Drive Your Elegance.
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Caption: Interiors editor Emma Breislin and lifestyle editor Gilda Bruno explored this year’s London Design Festival Districts in the LEPAS L8.
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