WIMBLEDON 2018
2 July – 15 July From its modest beginnings in 1877 as a small event attended by 22 players and 200 spectators – and allegedly only held to raise money to repair a broken pony-roller-, Wimbledon has grown into the world’s most famous tennis tournament. Held at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in a […]
RUSHTON HALL
By Lavinia Dickson-Robinson Not even a cold grey morning can take away the beauty and magnificence of Rushton Hall. With its drive lined with thousands of golden daffodils, this is not so much a country house hotel but a stately home experience. Seeped in history, at first sight Rushton Hall is breathtakingly beautiful. It has […]
Jewels To Dazzle This Summer
by Lavinia Dickson-Robinson “Big Girls need big Diamonds” Elizabeth Taylor. With new and up and coming jewellery designers such as Constan Eghiazarian (Aenea) and the talented Marco Bicego, don’t camouflage your beautiful new jewellery by wearing too much colour, go black or white and let your jewels do the talking. If I was lucky enough […]
Mario Valentino
A History of Fashion, Design & Art By Ornella Cirillo PhD Pulished by SKIRA, £55 A beautiful new album chronicling 65 years of “Made in Italy” excellence. Established in 1952 in Naples, the Valentino brand is a leading name in leather and a legendary manufacturer of shoes, accessories and clothing. Now, a new book from […]
The Rolex British Grand Prix 2018
6th-8th July Silverstone celebrates its 70th Birthday Like so many of England’s racing circuits, Silverstone started life as an aerodrome. When WWII ended in 1945, England’s other two circuits, Donington Park and the legendary Brooklands, had fallen into disrepair. And so it was that the outer taxiways and interconnecting runways of Silverstone became adopted by […]
33RPM with Tokio Myers
As they say, it takes a long time to be an overnight success and Tokio Myers is no different. Winning Britain’s Got Talent in 2017 changed his life, but it is not as if he had just started his career in music. Born Torville Jones in 1984, he grew up listening to his Jamaican father’s […]
Summer At The Gstaad Palace Hotel
Airbone aperitifs, games with tennis legends and much more Towering majestically over the quaint Swiss town of Gstaad, the palatial, historic hotel is re-opening in June with an array of unmissable offers for sophisticated travellers looking to make the very best of the stunning Alpine landscape in all its luscious, green glory. From a delicious, […]
Nature’s Solution To Global Challenges
By Inger Andersen, Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Nature conservation wasn’t always regarded as the obvious route to development. In Guatemala, where farmers are sustainably growing cocoa while conserving forests, it has become just that. Sustainable cocoa used to make products like fair trade chocolate allow Guatemalan farmers to earn up […]
Kim Vanessa Kortlepel
Bright Young Things: Kim Vanessa Kortlepel She is not even 25 yet and Kim has already graduated in Law, completed a Master Degree in International Public Law and founded her own jewellery brand, KVK73. In a candid interview, this impressive young woman shared with us the memories of her childhood and the dreams for her […]
Sophie Christiansen
Ferocious determination to succeed Sophie suffered serious health problems at birth, which included cerebral palsy and a heart attack. At six years of age, she started to ride for rehabilitation reasons. The youngest British competitor ever at Paralympics games, Sophie first took part in the 2004 Summer Paralympics, and came home with a fourth and […]
