Giambattista Valli is H&M’s new designer collaboration—and his limited-edition dresses are dropping this Saturday
Share 24th May 2019 The Cannes amfAR Gala is a famously glittering affair, with top designers squiring actresses and supermodels in haute couture against the sensational backdrop of the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc and the Mediterranean behind it. If this year’s gala is more glamorous than in the past, it’s thanks to Giambattista Valli and H&M, which are announcing a…
Move over Prince George, it turns out Princess Charlotte has the cutest nickname of all
Share 24th May 2019 Back in January, Prince George revealed to a dog walker while out on a rendezvous with his grandmother, Carole Middleton, that his nickname was Archie. Since then, speculation has surfaced that Prince George was in fact revealing the name of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first child, who we know to…
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West's wedding album
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West tied the knot on May 24, 2014 in a show-stopping fairy tale ceremony in Italy. However, the couple didn’t just celebrate with a ceremony and a reception, they made an entire extravagant weekend out of their nuptials, beginning with a trip to Paris where the bride-to-be held an epic…
Topshop is shuttering all of its US stores
Share 24th May 2019 Following its American debut in New York 10 years ago, British high street chain Topshop is reportedly planning to shutter 11 of its stores across the US, eliminating its presence in the states entirely as per Business Insider. In an effort to avoid administration, parent company Arcadia Group has proposed a…
Chanel names Margot Robbie its newest fragrance ambassador
Share 24th May 2019 Australian actress Margot Robbie has been announced as the new fragrance ambassador for Chanel. The star, who has earned international acclaim for her breakout role opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in , and whose performance as Tonya Harding in secured her an Oscar nomination, has been a Chanel fashion ambassador since 2018. Robbie has also…
Royal photographer Alexi Lubomirski on working with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: “they get in their own little world”
Share 24th May 2019 Fashion photographer Alexi Lubomirski was chosen by the British Royal Family to take the official engagement portraits of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Kensington Palace in December of 2017. The following year, he was selected once more to mark the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s May nuptials by photographing their…
Design hotspot: Tel Aviv
Image: A French convent and hospital’s chapel now serves as the bar of the Jaffa Hotel in Tel Aviv. Photography: Amit Geron Variously described as the Manhattan and Miami of the Middle East, Israel’s chilled-out Tel Aviv has turned its back on the wider region’s religious divisions and made an open-all-hours party of diversity. Avowedly…
Jaeger-LeCoultre hosts a gala dinner at a thousand-year-old temple in Kyoto
On a spring evening, Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre transported select media, friends of the brand and VIPs to Kyoto for a gala dinner inside the grounds of Shin’nyo-do Temple dating back to the year 984. Guests arrived to cocktails and the sound of traditional Japanese music played on a Koto under illuminated maple trees and the…
Almost famous: iconic movie roles that nearly went to someone else
Would have been the same if Elizabeth Olsen had been cast in the now-iconic role of Daenerys Targaryen instead of Emilia Clarke? We’ll never know. But we do know that Clarke has been one of the key cast members who has made the show the cultural phenomenon it has become over the past eight mesmerising…
Inside Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn’s 2002 wedding
Her brother’s rule-breaking marriage to a woman with a complex past paved the way for Princess Märtha Louise of Norway to marry author Ari Behn one year later. Her brother having subverted protocol, Princess Märtha Louise didn’t hesitate when Behn proposed to her, despite the media’s critical view of the writer. They united at Nidaros…