Masterpiece Estates – a handpicked selection of remarkable properties, your very own bespoke retreat

  Masterpiece Estates is the latest, most unique offering from the Oetker Collection. Masterpiece Estates is a small portfolio of historical houses and private luxury estates. Germany’s luxury hospitality group Oetker Collection is offering extraordinary houses in spectacular countryside. Each historical property called “Masterpiece Estate” offers a huge choice of outstanding activities, and is staffed … Read more

Range Rover Velar: ‘It feels like the brand’s flagship model’

Designed to fill the space between the Evoque and and the larger Range Rover Sport, the exceptional Velar comfortably exceeds its brief

The AIKON Automatic Skeleton – The unique impact of a graphic skeleton

  In a freshly restyled AIKON case, Maurice Lacroix, the premium brand of Swiss watches based in the Canton of Jura and headquartered in Zurich, has fitted a new manufacture, openworked, automatic caliber of unique design. True to its vocation of manufacturing high quality timepieces deeply rooted in urban and contemporary culture, Maurice Lacroix introduces AIKON … Read more

London fashion week vows to be fur-free

British Fashion Council says LFW in September will be first of big fashion weeks to ditch animal fur

Bowie-themed bar opens at London’s Hotel Café Royal

  Open until late at the intersection of Mayfair and Soho at Hotel Café Royal, the new Ziggy’s cocktail bar features a curated gallery of intimate portraits of David Bowie by his long standing photographer and friend Mick Rock. The year is 1973. David Bowie retires his dramatic alter ego Ziggy Stardust with a final … Read more

Thirty years at Vogue: how Anna Wintour changed the way the world gets dressed

In her years as editor of American Vogue, Wintour has invented soft power dressing and become as famous as her celebrity cover stars. Lionised and satirised, respected and feared – could she now be ready to abdicate?