How instant makeup brands are creating a new beauty elite

Instagram innovators such as Pat McGrath and Kylie Jenner are revolutionising cosmetics – and becoming overnight billionaires

Christie’s Auction House Sales Are Up 26%, Leading The Art Market

  Christie’s Auction house sales are up 26% to almost £3 billion, leading to the highest half-year total in company history. 80% of the highest selling objects in the first half of 2018 were sold at Christie’s. Continued global demand, audience engagement with the diversity of collecting categories and the historic Rockefeller sales helped drive … Read more

Prado Museum is now showcasing the entire Dauphin’s Treasure collection for the first time

  This collection, which entered the Museo del Prado in 1839, is now exhibited in its entirety in the so-called “Toro Norte”, located in the central section of the second floor of the North or Goya Wing in the Villanueva Building. The new room at Prado museum is a circular space with a continuous curved … Read more

Top Cruise Ships That Rival Anything Offered On Land

  The ultra-luxury cruise landscape has changed beyond all recognition Looking at the the ultra-luxury cruise leaders, industry experts agree there is an ever-growing demand for high-end cruises from both past elite travelers and affluent yet-to-cruise passengers. The reports show that the industry will benefit from more than ten new exclusive cruise ships in the … Read more

How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%

In an age of astonishing wealth, nothing reveals the lives of the ultra-rich like the FT’s unashamedly ostentatious luxury magazine.

By Andy Beckett

Roberto Cavalli launches its own fully-custom CCN Freedom yacht

  CCN launches Freedom – the fully-custom yacht purchased by Roberto Cavalli. Italian shipyard CCN – Cerri Cantieri Navali launches the 27m Freedom, the latest “Fuoriserie” Yacht for the Italian Fashion Designer Roberto Cavalli. 27 m “Freedom” CCN, the fully-custom yacht purchased by fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, who personally designed her in cooperation with his … Read more