Check out the best of the best – Small Luxury Hotels Awards 2015

Small Luxury Hotels Awards 2015 recognise and honour SLH member hotels that have gone above and beyond to provide the ultimate guest experience and exemplify the luxury brand’s ‘independently minded’ philosophy, a new brand strapline that was unveiled alongside a new logo device at last week’s SLH International Conference in Marbella. Seven hotels received awards … Read more

Etre Blank: French women on the new normcore

As body adornment becomes increasingly middle-class, French women are rebelling, creating their own normcore look

It’s only rock’n’roll but they like it: Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent makes it simple

Some accuse him of denigrating a hallowed legacy, but the French fashion house’s current designer is pulling in celebrity fans, and money

The crowning glory of Louis Moinet’s first decade comes up with an entirely new concept for the first ever chronograph-watch

The inspirational master watchmaker Louis Moinet (1768 – 1853), the true inventor of the chronograph (1816) and the creator of some extraordinary clocks for Napoleon Bonaparte, Tsar Alexander Ist, American Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, or King George IV of England, was one of the greatest watchmakers of Europe. The Louvre Museum in Paris, … Read more

Dior: who will take over?

With Raf Simons exiting Christian Dior, one of fashion’s top jobs is up for grabs. Here’s who might be in the frame

Dutch museum achieves the impossible with new Hieronymus Bosch show

To mark the artist’s 500th anniversary, the director of small Dutch museum secures 20 of 25 surviving panels by ‘the devil’s painter’