Top global luxury brands, including Burberry Group Plc and Kering’s Gucci are demanding lower store rents as business in Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland continues to drop.

Prada’s Finance Director Jean-Jacques Guiony said the group will attempt to renegotiate rental arrangements with landlords in view of the weakening sales in Hong Kong. According to sources Gucci may close some of its shops there if those costs don’t come down. Burberry  may also try to lower its rent bill after sales growth slowed down since China began discouraging excessive spending by government officials in late 2012. The French luxury goods corporation fully named LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton announced sales at one of its flagship brands Louis Vuitton saw a 10 percent fall in Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland in the second quarter from a year back.

Wealthy Chinese are also making fewer trips to Hong Kong and Swiss watch exports to the city slumped 20 percent in the first half. The sales decline is partly due to mainland customers switching to doing more shopping in Japan and Europe as their currencies have weakened.

Architect Zaha Hadid has completed a one of the most beautiful museum for renowned climber Reinhold Messner at the top of Alpine peak Mount Kronplatz.

Located 2,275 metres above sea level in the heart of the popular Kronplatz ski resort in South Tyrol, Italy, the Messner Mountain Museum Corones is the ultimate installment in a series of 6 mountain top museums constructed by Messner.

Using Concrete, Zaha Hadid gave the appearance of rock and ice shards to the museum and he also chose glass-reinforced fibre concrete to give the building’s exterior a pale grey tone. To support the structure from the pressure of the surrounding earth, the walls of the museum are made between 40 and 50 centimetres thick and the roof with thicknesses of up to 70 centimetres.

The building featuring underground galleries and a viewing platform cantilevered over a valley will exhibit objects, images and tools that tell the story of Messner’s life as a mountaineer. Galleries over three floors are connected by staircases that the Zaha describes as being “like waterfalls in a mountain stream”.

U.K  based brand Jaeger has unveiled its new Autumn/Winter 15 starring model, actress and philanthropist, Elisa Sednaoui-Dellal.

This the first campaign shot by iconic photographer David Bailey for the brand. The series a series of black and white photos showsEgyptian-born, London-based Sednaoui-Dellal wearing an array of pieces from the line, like a grey gilet, a cashmere polo neck, a camel hair coat and a long tweed waistcoat.