NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2025--
Menē Inc. (TSX-V:MENE) (US:MENEF) (“Menē” or the “Company”), an online 24 karat jewelry brand, celebrate the launch of their exclusive collaboration - Huntsman x Menē.
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WHO: Diana Picasso, Pierre Lagrange, Matt Dillon, Sabine Getty, Cassandra Grey, Larry Gagosian, Stefano Tonchi, Sunjoo Moon, Vincent Gladu, Glenda Bailey, Derek Blasberg, Rachel Feinstein, John Currin, Simon Goldman, David Evan Ruff, Amalia Dayan, Callum Mullin, John Philp Thompson III, Erica Pelosini, Bernie Lagrange, Adam Lindemann, and more.
WHAT: Huntsman, the esteemed Savile Row tailor, and Menē, the innovative purveyor of handcrafted 24-karat gold and pure platinum investment jewellery, celebrated the launch of their exclusive collaboration. Hosted by Pierre Lagrange, owner and CEO of Huntsman, and Diana Picasso, Co-Founder and Chief Artistic Officer of Menē, the evening began with a champagne reception at Huntsman’s Cutting Room in midtown Manhattan followed by a dinner at The Russian Tea Room.
This collaboration unites two brands with a deep commitment to authenticity, craftsmanship, and quality. Together, they present a meticulously designed Huntsman x Menē collection of dress studs, cufflinks, and buttons crafted in 24-karat gold and pure platinum, available exclusively on a made-to-order basis. Huntsman, with over 175 years of tailoring excellence, has long been synonymous with refinement and precision. Menē, known for its revolutionary approach to investment jewellery and innovative design, ensures that every piece in the collection maintains intrinsic value, purity, and timeless appeal. This collaboration brings the same ethos of intergenerational luxury, crafting accessories that are not only aesthetically distinguished but also a true investment in quality and legacy.
The limited collection is available exclusively online at mene.com.
WHERE: The Russian Tea Room, 150 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019
WHEN: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
About Huntsman
Huntsman has been a bespoke tailor to the most sartorially discerning ladies and gentlemen for 175 years and has a reputation for making the world’s finest handcrafted clothes. An emphasis on cut, cloth, and construction continues to define the Huntsman legacy today. To wear a Huntsman garment is to wear the finest garment the human hand can make and that money can buy. As the standard-bearer for Savile Row, their comprehensive bespoke services include bespoke tailoring for men and women, bespoke shirtmaking, and bespoke cloth design and creation, and seasonal ready-to-wear collections, luxury gifts, and accessories.
About Menē
Menē crafts pure 24-karat gold and platinum jewelry that is transparently sold by gram weight. Through mene.com, customers may buy jewelry, monitor the value of their collection over time, and sell or exchange their pieces by gram weight at prevailing market prices. Founded by Roy Sebag and Diana Widmaier-Picasso, with a mission to restore the relationship between jewelry and savings. Menē empowers consumers by marrying innovative technology, timeless design, and pure precious metals to create pieces which endure as a store of value. For more information about Menē, visit mene.com.
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Huntsman and Menē Celebrate the Launch of Their Exclusive Collaboration
RHO, Italy (AP) — No ice is colder and harder than speedskating ice. The precision it takes has meant that Olympic speedskaters have never competed for gold on a temporary indoor rink – until the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games.
In the pursuit of maximum glide and minimum friction, Olympic officials brought on ice master Mark Messer, a veteran of six previous Olympic speedskating tracks and the ice technician in charge of the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada — one of the fastest tracks in the world with over 300 records.
Messer has been putting that experience to work one thin layer of ice at a time since the end of October at the new Speed Skating Stadium, built inside adjacent trade fair halls in the city of Rho just north of Milan.
“It’s one of the biggest challenges I’ve had in icemaking,’’ Messer said during an interview less than two weeks into the process.
If Goldilocks were a speedskater, hockey ice would be medium hard, for fast puck movement and sharp turns. Figure skating ice would be softer, allowing push off for jumps and so the ice doesn’t shatter on landing. Curling ice is the softest and warmest of all, for controlled sliding.
For speedskating ice to be just right, it must be hard, cold and clean. And very, very smooth.
“The blades are so sharp, that if there is some dirt, the blade will lose the edge,’’ Messer said, and the skater will lose speed.
Speedskater Enrico Fabris, who won two Olympic golds in Turin in 2006, has traded in his skates to be deputy sports manager at the speedskating venue in Rho. For him, perfect ice means the conditions are the same for all skaters — and then if it's fast ice, so much the better.
"It's more of a pleasure to skate on this ice,'' he said.
Messer’s first Olympics were in Calgary in 1988 — the first time speedskating was held indoors. “That gave us some advantages because we didn’t have to worry about the weather, wind blowing or rain,’’ he said. Now he is upping the challenge by becoming the first ice master to build a temporary rink for the Olympics.
Before Messer arrived in Italy, workers spent weeks setting up insulation to level the floor and then a network of pipes and rubber tubes that carry glycol — an antifreeze — that is brought down to minus 7 or minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 to 19.4 degrees Fahrenheit) to make the ice.
Water is run through a purification system — but it can’t be too pure, or the ice that forms will be too brittle. Just the right amount of impurities “holds the ice together,’’ Messer said.
The first layers of water are applied slowly, with a spray nozzle; after the ice reaches a few centimeters it is painted white — a full day’s work — and the stripes are added to make lanes.
“The first one takes about 45 minutes. And then as soon as it freezes, we go back and do it again, and again and again. So we do it hundreds of times,’’ Messer said.
As the ice gets thicker, and is more stable, workers apply subsequent layers of water with hoses. Messer attaches his hose to hockey sticks for easier spreading.
What must absolutely be avoided is dirt, dust or frost — all of which can cause friction for the skaters, slowing them down. The goal is that when the skaters push “they can go as far as possible with the least amount of effort,’’ Messer said.
The Zamboni ice resurfacing machine plays a key role in keeping the track clean, cutting off a layer and spraying water to make a new surface.
One challenge is gauging how quickly the water from the resurfacing machine freezes in the temporary rink.
Another is getting the ice to the right thickness so that the Zamboni, weighing in at six tons, doesn’t shift the insulation, rubber tubing or ice itself.
“When you drive that out, if there’s anything moving it will move. We don’t want that,’’ Messer said.
The rink got its first big test on Nov. 29-30 during a Junior World Cup event. In a permanent rink, test events are usually held a year before the Olympics, leaving more time for adjustments. “We have a very small window to learn,’’ Messer acknowledged.
Dutch speedskater Kayo Vos, who won the men’s neo-senior 1,000 meters, said the ice was a little soft — but Messer didn’t seem too concerned.
“We went very modest to start, now we can start to change the temperatures and try to make it faster and still maintain it as a safe ice,’’ he said.
Fine-tuning the air temperature and humidity and ice temperature must be done methodically — taking into account that there will be 6,000 spectators in the venue for each event. The next real test will be on Jan. 31, when the Olympians take to the ice for their first training session.
“Eighty percent of the work is done but the hardest part is the last 20 percent, where we have to try to find the values and the way of running the equipment so all the skaters get the same conditions and all the skaters get the best conditions,’’ Messer said.
AP Winter Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics
Serpentines are set on the ice of the stadium where speed skating discipline of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will take place, in Rho, outskirt of Milan, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Ice Master Mark Messer poses in the stadium where speed skating discipline of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will take place, in Rho, outskirt of Milan, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Workers clean the ice surface during a peed skating Junior World Cup and Olympic test event, in Rho, near Milan, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Ice Master Mark Messer poses in the stadium where speed skating discipline of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will take place, in Rho, outskirt of Milan, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Ice Master Mark Messer poses in the stadium where speed skating discipline of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will take place, in Rho, outskirt of Milan, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
