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Our favorite mobile apps, as used by luxury brands

July 14, 2015July 10, 2015 by Editorial Team

More and more luxury brands are incorporating mobile apps. These can be fantastic learning tools for the user, as well as providing fun entertainment and improving the customer’s understanding of the product. In light of this, we have put together a list of our favorite mobile apps, as used by luxury brands, to sell and improve their … Read more

Clicquot Mailbox: Take a look at Veuve Clicquot Re-creation Awards winner

July 8, 2015 by Editorial Team

Last October, Veuve Clicquot champagne house introduced the Re-Creation Awards – and international on-line competition inviting the public to design the 2015 Clicquot Mailbox. The “USA-style” Mailbox packaging inspired by Madame Clicquot’s history of correspondence with her clientele, allows one to send a bottle of a Yellow Label Brut through postal mail.

The twenty international finalists from around the world were delivered to Veuve Clicquot’s Hôtel du Marc, in the Champagne region of France, for a prestigious two day experience. At a glamorous ceremony, an international jury of influential names in design revealed Canadian, Eileen Ugarkovic as the International Winner of the Veuve Clicquot Re-Creation Awards. Ugarkovic’s Clicquot Mailbox is decorated with paper airplanes in Veuve Cliquot colors, symbols of freedom and hope.

“Her design won over the jury with its simplicity and resonance with the theme of travel,” announced LVMH’s champagne house.

Eileen Ugarkovic received 10,000€ in prize money and had her Clicquot Mailbox showcased at Milan Design Week. Her creation is distributed worldwide as a limited edition offer.

“In creating my concept, I was inspired by Clicquot’s anchor, the symbol of hope. When one thinks of hope, birds immediately come to mind – birds also represent freedom & ideas. Since freedom & ideas are conceived on paper I envisioned paper birds, or paper planes, flying into Madame Clicquot’s mailbox. Blue was chosen in addition to the brand colour to symbolize Clicquot’s historical contribution to the city of Reims. Combined these colours are regal & royal just like the Clicquot brand itself,” explained Eileen Ugarkovic.

Swarovski Optik’s Digiscoping Adapter for the iPhone 6

July 6, 2015 by Editorial Team

The world of digiscoping accessible to iPhone 6 owners. Wildlife and bird watchers and sporting enthusiasts are now able to capture their memorable experiences and close-up shots on their iPhone 6 device. The SWAROVSKI OPTIK iPhone adapter is now also available for the iPhone 6. The PA-i6 adapter for iPhone is used to attach SWAROVSKI … Read more

Five of the best smartwatches for 2015

December 25, 2019June 30, 2015 by Editorial Team

From the Apple Watch, the Pebble Time and a raft of Google Android Wear watches, there are a lot to choose from. Here are the five best.

Mulsanne Speed signature Phone

June 30, 2015June 30, 2015 by Editorial Team

New Signature for Bentley from Vertu. The second mobile handset developed by Vertu for Bentley. Vertu, the world’s leading manufacturer of luxury mobile phones, unveiled its second mobile handset developed for British luxury automaker Bentley. Signature for Bentley phone is inspired by the Bentley Mulsanne Speed, the renowned car maker’s pinnacle model. Various tangible design cues … Read more

Disconnect to connect with life. “First” luxury digital detox the Mediterranean way

June 22, 2015 by Editorial Team

Enjoy a digital detox the Mediterranean way.

Are you more connected to your mobile phone that to the most important things in your life? Now, you can get a place at the very first ever daycare for mobile phones. If you are a mobile phone addict and you spend more time with it than interacting with people offline, Gin Mare, the first Mediterranean Gin distilled with Arbequina Olives, Thyme, Rosemary & Basil, offers a challenge: Would you be able to live without your mobile phone for 72 hours?

“The Daycare for Mobile Phones” is the “first” luxury digital detox center to be opened in September in Ibiza. At the brand’s Villa Mare in Ibiza, visitors wishing to reconnect away from the digital world will relax and enjoy cold cocktails and one of the most beautiful islands in the planet.

According to the most recent Technology Trends annual report by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, people check their phones approximately 150 times a day.

“We are victims of information overload, hyper stimulated, trying to process too much,” explained Neil Shah, Stress Management Expert. “As much as one-third of people admits to feel symptoms of anxiety when away from their gadgets, showing an alarming growing need in our society for more disconnected time.

“Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell states that technology is the new cigarette: ‘People are becoming addicted without even realizing it’.”

To win a place in the Gin Mare’s daycare you’ll need to pass a stress test and prove you can live 72H without your phone. For this, Gin Mare will send a stress kit to your home with instructions, a custom box to keep your phone resting for 72 hours, and an activation code for a REPLACEMENT MOBILE. A virtual terminal from which you will only be able to see your messages, without answering them. If you pass the stress test and prove that you could really use a digital detox you can go on a wonderful weekend in Ibiza reconnecting with what’s really important in life.