Traditional fine hand soap is a wonderful and versatile gift that is luxurious, timeless and environmentally friendly.

The house offers up a contemporary iteration of this product in its ‘Prestige Le Savon’ soap. Hedi Slimane also captures a sense of 20th-century nostalgia in his bath and body collection for Celine.

His soap store, Sunday Savon, sits on the second floor of a building in the Sakaemachidori 1-chome district of Kobe’s Chuo Ward. The space is about the size of three tatami mats and lined with ...