Editorial Team 
‘Cookbook of the year’ explores gourmet Chilean cuisine “Patagonian Cuisine: Rivers, Lakes and Chiloe District” by Francisco Fantini has been named the cookbook of the year at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris. The winning cookbook that takes readers on a gastronomic tour of Chile beat out 11 other titles around the world including … Read more
The offending bag from last year’s The Hangover II movie Louis Vuitton luxury house is asking for compensation over the use of the “Lewis Vuitton” bag in Warnes Bros’ “The Hangover Part II” (2011, USA, directed by Todd Phillips), which grossed £367m and is the most successful R-rated comedy of all time at the global box … Read more
France accounts for about 8 percent of the total annual luxury-goods sales, according to consultant Bain & Co. French election frontrunners President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist candidate Francois Hollande have both pledged tax increases. The measures may damp the feel-good factor, a driver of luxury-goods consumption, as has happened elsewhere in Europe, according to CA … Read more
Ron Falloon photographed many of the top models and celebrities of the time including Twiggy, Cilla Black, Jean Shrimpton, Pauline Stone, Vicky Hodge, The Rolling Stones and the Monkees – to name just a few. His work perfectly evokes swinging London in the ’60s. He arrived in London in the early 1960s and luckily got … Read more
CuteCircuit designed an exclusive spectacular haute couture dress with LEDs technology inspired by the lights of Aurora Borealis – the Roman goddess who announces every morning the arrival of the sun. Designed for an opera performance hosted by Breitling, the Aurora Dress is adorned with hundreds of Svarovski crystals and is made with silk taffeta … Read more
The market for so-called super-yachts is still buoyant in Middle East The last Dubai Yacht Show, Middle East’s biggest boat show, proved that the luxury yachts continue to grow more super. “We’ve never sold as many super yachts as in the last three years,” Erwin Bamps, chief operating officer of Gulf Craft told the BBC quoted by … Read more