This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 2010 Dominique Demarville, cellar master for the champagne house Veuve Clicquot, got what he thought was a joke call ...

She sold over 10,000 bottles of champagne for the equivalent of £70 each and saved her business. Within weeks Russia’s Tsar Alexander I declared that ‘Veuve’ Clicquot, or ‘Widow ...

You might expect a designer collaborating with a champagne house to conjure up an aesthetically pleasing bottle or label, and perhaps some merch to match. But this was not the case for Stella ...