There’s a reason Serena Williams stays here when she’s in Paris
Avenue Kléber entrance to the Peninsula Paris Hotel. You wouldn’t expect to go to Paris and eat in a Chinese restaurant. But then again, here we are, eating glistening shards of duck skin in a grand, red and gold-toned room so high-ceilinged your neck cranes just looking up. LiLi opened in the Peninsula Paris hotel…
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry purposely unfollowed everyone on Instagram
Share 2nd Aug 2019 Even with Instagram trialling taking away the visible “likes” function (it’s currently running a test with its Australian users among a number of other countries), the “follower” and “following” counts on the social media platform are still highly important, visible metrics about each social media account. Overnight, the Duke and Duchess…
Queer author Yelena Moskovich on the rise of the lesbian aesthetic
Female homoeroticism has recurrently been used as a way of giving women’s fashion an edge. From Helmut Newton’s iconic photograph of Yves Saint Laurent’s Le Smoking for French in 1975 (above), to Carolyn Murphy and Angela Lindvall’s sultry embrace in Gucci’s autumn/winter ’97/’98 campaign, or later, Natalia Vodianova and Isabeli Fontana intertwined around a handbag…
A reboot of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is in the works
Share 2nd Aug 2019 Return yourselves to 2003: there’s no Instagram, no Netflix, no Bumble. Instead, we had Andie Anderson (masterfully played by Kate Hudson), advice columnist at Composure magazine. Bent on proving her writing chops, she takes a strike at courting—and then crushing—her relationship with advertising executive Benjamin Barry (equally masterfully played by Matthew…
Does Brie Larson have a new boyfriend, Elijah Allan-Blitz?
Share 2nd Aug 2019 After news broke in January that Brie Larson had called off her engagement to then-fiancé Phantom Planet singer Alex Greenwald, the Captain Marvel starlet has been caught in an intimate embrace with virtual reality director and actor Elijah Allan-Blitz on Tuesday in Los Angeles, California. As per People, the 29-year-old actress…
Gucci has hired its first global head of diversity, equity and inclusion
Share 2nd Aug 2019 Gucci has hired a new face to oversee its diversity and inclusion efforts. The Italian fashion house announced on Tuesday that Renee Tirado will now fill the position of global head of diversity, equity and inclusion. Following Gucci’s release of several culturally insensitive products last year, including the ‘blackface’ balaclava sweater,…
Your August 2019 horoscope is here
Leo23 July-23 AugustA new dawn, a new day and a new life sees you feeling good this month. A mind and body makeover could bring love your way or change the ground rules of a current relationship. Being on the same page with finances may also be strangely stimulating now, so discussing the practicalities of…
These are the best celebrity vintage outfit moments on Instagram
While Instagram may have recently removed likes, there’s no denying the social media photo-sharing platform has provided a portal to the best, and worst, of celebrity style. Unlike the pomp and circumstance of red carpet awards, film premieres or fashion galas, the Instagram profiles of the most followed celebrities in the world let us in…
These decadent train interiors will inspire your next journey
Is there anything more charming than arriving to your destination, bag in hand, on board a luxuriously outfitted train? It calls to mind the glamour of another era, one where the journey was just as important as the destination, and travellers actually made an effort to dress up for dinner. Like cruising and road tripping,…
Inside the luxury Mustique villa Kate Middleton and Prince William vacationed in
Image credits: supplied What is it about Mustique, the private island in the Caribbean, that Prince William and Kate Middleton find so alluring? Is it perhaps the fact that it’s a rather beautiful hideaway? Or, that it boasts a world class security team, or maybe it’s the luxury facilities that allow for the royals to…