Blake Lively – the face of Gucci Première

  Gucci announced that actress Blake Lively will be the face of Gucci Premiere, the House’s next female fragrance, for which Nicolas Winding Refn has directed a short film. Blake Lively joins Evan Rachel Wood, Chris Evans and James Franco in representing Gucci’s fragrances. The print campaign for the new fragrance was shot by Mert … Read more

Largest flotilla assembled on the Thames in 350 years to celebrate The Queen’s 60th anniversary

  On Sunday 3rd June 2012 The Queen will travel in a flotilla of up to one thousand boats from the UK, the Commonwealth and around the World for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, an event which promises to be one of the major focal points of the celebrations held on the Jubilee Bank Holiday … Read more

Hotel Alfonso XIII Seville reopened following a $25 Million Restoration

Located on the historic Calle San Fernando in the heart of Seville, iconic Hotel Alfonso XIII, one of the grandest hotels in Europe, originally designed by Sevillian architect José Espiau y Muñoz and eventually named after King Alfonso XIII, has been reopened following an extensive $25 million restoration. The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts’ reopening … Read more

The Luxury Collection Hotels debuts Keraton at The Plaza Jakarta

The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts Reaches 80 Hotels Worldwide with the Debut of Keraton at The Plaza, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Jakarta   The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts opened its 80th hotel – Keraton at The Plaza, the brand’s first hotel in Jakarta. The hotel opening also marks the first of four new … Read more

Wang Shu of China – the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize (founded in 1979) honors a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. The laureates receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion. This … Read more

Louis Vuitton Classic Serenissima Run: Yves Carcelle to offer first Louis Vuitton Classic Award

 Louis Vuitton Classic Serenissima Run 2012 43 classic cars leave from Monte Carlo and finish in Venice  Louis Vuitton has always been close to art of travel in style. For this reason, the French luxury house decided to launch the initiative of the Classic Run. Designed in the ’90s (the first was the Vintage Equator … Read more