Shot by famous celebrity photographer Avinash Gowariker, the cover of Kohl, a recently launched ITP lifestyle magazine targeting Asian women, features Indian actress Katrina Kaif, who is the star of many Bollywood hits and was voted the Sexiest Woman by a famous international magazine.
Thanks to the alliance with an established UAE-based jeweler Damas, the face of the magazine comes dipped in 91 grams of gold and festooned with 622 diamonds. Total 86 hours were invested by Damas craftsmen to hand-apply layers of gold leaf to a specially-treated gold-edition of the exclusive magazine.
The special edition of the magazine was unveiled for the very first time at an official press conference on 24 June, in the Borders outlet in Mall of the Emirates. It is said to be the world’s most expensive magazine and worth over $10,000.
The magazine is set to be showcased at many of the Damas stores throughout the GGC till October and is anticipated to undergo auction for the Rashid Pediatric Therapy Centre in October 2008.
This Rolls Royce Phantom Coupe is reported to be owned by the Sultan of Brunei’s family.
The Sultan has a sizable private fortune derived from his total control over the national economy’s finances and the appropriation of the state’s sizeable oil revenues to bankroll his extravagant lifestyle.
The Sultan’s fortunes, in line with oil prices, have fluctuated since an estimated high of $55.63 billion in 1997, which made him the richest man in the world at the time.
French people are well known for their Luxury taste, and this brand new concept phone is another proof of just that !
MobiFrance has recently partnered up with Sony Ericsson to develop a concept cell called the French Luxury.
The FL is designed to commemorate France’s Independence Day (July 14) by bearing a strong resemblance to the Eiffel Tower, the most recognizable French landmark. Continue reading →
This $400 million super-yacht was built for a Russian oligarch, Andrey Melnichenko, 37, who is worth $9.2 billion and was ranked 172 on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people.
There is a large master suite as well as six luxury cabins for up to 14 guests and enough room for 42 crew members.
Designed by Philippe Stark, the 400ft long superyacht is said to have its own discotheque featuring a glass roof which is situated directly under the swimming pool. Continue reading →
NYC-based Okeanos Aquascaping, is an international custom aquarium and pond company specializing in the integration of cutting edge designs, hand-picked exotic fish, coral and other livestock, brilliant colors, and mesmerizing effects.
Sure, you could go to a beach or an aquarium anytime to see exotic aquatic life. But you guys deserve the finest luxuries in life, right ? So why not take a trip or build a customized aquarium in your home?
Okeanos is now offering five-star experiential vacations where customers can travel with Okeanos’ staff around the world to see exotic fish, coral and other livestock in its natural habitats.
The client will have the opportunity to pick out the fish, coral and livestock that he/she wishes, and Okeanos will replicate the environment in the customer’s location of choice.
That sounds very “luxury” though… but a bit selfish too (bad joke…time to sleep). Although fish must not really suffer in such big aquariums, I just hope I’m not actually doing publicity for a company which help people who plan to bring back some endangered species home! And unfortunately at $100,000 each, I guess we cannot find this kind of fish everywhere…
Though, if customers get bored with their luxury fish, they can still turn them into the world’s most expensive sushis, we will be glad to feature them once again on Luxuo ^_^
Finding the right shade of lipstick has been expensive lately…
French cosmetics house Guerlain released in November KissKiss Gold and Diamonds which comes wrapped in a 110-gram, 18-karat gold tube encrusted with 199 conflict-free diamonds weighing 2.2 carats, rubies and emeralds.
For this price, the buyer will also get a personal appointment with Guerlain’s artistic director Olivier Echaudemaison, to develop a custom-made shade of lipstick. Continue reading →
Its week-end guys, time to relax… Although we are based in Hong Kong, the temple of the luxury ^_^, I would like to post about a fabulous place in New York City, where a friend of us is working ! Pierce Mattie Public Relations, one of the hottest luxury PR firms, has an oasis right in Times Square. Their 4000 square foot corporate office houses a luxurious and tranquil spa-like facility well known to savvy editors from the top beauty, fashion and lifestyle publications.
The Media Oasis hosts a spa treatment room, shampoo room, makeup and hair studio, as well as, a lounge where editors can relax while hearing about the hottest products launching on the market. The Media Oasis was an innovative design concept and collaboration between CEO, Pierce Mattie and Architect, Edward Thornton. The result is the feel of a modern day resort while still maintaining the function of a large corporate office.
Guests of the Media Oasis can receive exclusive facial treatments, body massages, manicures and pedicures, aromatherapy sessions, chemical peels and body treatments based on which brand is presenting at that time.
The clandestine milieu is also outfitted with a shampoo room fit for scalp treatments and hair processing. The soothing chocolate-stained wood floored lobby is simply furnished with soft white leather banquettes accented with elegant flowing jade curtains. Soft sights, sounds, and textures are complemented by the superb taste of a cold beverage along with the relaxing release of aromatherapy scents throughout the Oasis, provided by Scent Airâ„¢. All rooms with the exception of the lounge have handcrafted brown-suede flooring and technoline moka tile. The lounge area exhibits a distinct Italian tile by Bisazza Mosaico.
Pierce Mattie Public Relations remains the industry leader in communications for luxury beauty, fashion, home, health and fitness brands. With offices in New York and Los Angeles, Pierce Mattie PR has solid relationships with the editorial world of New York and the celebrity world of Hollywood.
Pierce Mattie PR has a proven track record of collaborating with its client partners to deliver consistently outstanding results and with an amazing space such as the Media Oasis, it’s not difficult to figure out why. Though, If you guys are invited over there, that means you have a great fashion blog ^_^.
Mane has launched Yu which means rain in Chinese, one of the most expensive fragrances available on the market today at $5000. It was composed by nose Cecile Krakower of Mane.
New York Times perfume critic, Chandler Burr said “It’s actually very interesting, aesthetically gorgeous. You can smell the money in it. It’s almost a fresh quality, like using a very good toothpaste.â€
But he thinks that the perfume is not really worth it: “$5,000 is marketing, just increases the marketing campaign.†Continue reading →
The case, in 18kt white gold, measures 42mm and is water resistant to 50 meters. The dial is white mother-of-pearl, hand-engraved by hand, and the movement is a manual-wind Tourbillon with 17 jewels, beating at 21,600 bph.
The watch is available in two versions, one with 282 rubies, sapphires and multicolored tsavorites (7.7 carats), and another version with 195 rubies, sapphires and multicolored tsavorites (3.3 carats.).
The strap is available in Galuchet (stingray) leather in Framboise or Rose color with an 18kt white gold buckle.
The Boucheron Bestiaire is a limited edition of just eight pieces (price is yet to be unveiled). Via timezone
Although christmas is still six-months away I can’t help myself featuring this piece of art.
The Christmas tree ball on the picture above is supposed to be the world’s most expensive Christmas ornament, in the Krebs Glas Lauscha GmbH company.
The transparent glass ball is decorated with finely sculpted solid 12 karat gold and 120 diamonds of the clarity VS1 with a total weight of 5.1 carats.
The price of the bauble in shops will be 20,000 Euro ($31,400) – It must be really fragile so you’d better keep your kids away from the tree and lock them in their bedroom during Christmas Eve ^_^ (Source)
The clutch is made with “red†gradiated python leather and manages to pull off a smooth amd slick surface. VBH clutch has also a suede lining and a plaque on the inside.
The egg shape design is so unique and really eye-catching!
VBH Compact Clutch: $1,400 available at Net-a-Porter
Bill Zanker, founder and president of the Learning Annex. Zanker hired Donald Trump in 2005 to speak at three real estate investing seminars for $1 million per speech.
Those went so well that the company proceeded to hire him for another 17 seminars in 2006-07 for $1.5 million each. Zanker claims that he’s turned a profit on every event, where admission prices top out around $500†“He’s worth every penny,” Zanker says. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years. There is no better business speaker than Donald Trump. He attracts the biggest crowds in the world.”
Former president Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) was paid $2 million by media company Fujisankei Communications for two speeches and a handful of press interviews during a tour of Japan. Adjusting for inflation reveals that he was paid over $1.7 million per speech in today’s currency so we may consider these the most expensive speeches ever made.
Another former president, Bill Clinton generated $10.2 million in speaking fees in 2006 (the most recent year for which public records are available); he remains one of most popular top-tier speakers around !
Learning Annex even offered Paris Hilton a million dollars last year to speak at a Learning Annex seminar on building your own brand. She turned him down. “I thought she was a brilliant brander, but I think I was a little ahead of her.” Bill Zanker said…
Whether you’re a backgammon champion or have never played you will love this luxury Backgammon Set made of alligator.
Supplier of the boards for the World Championships, Max Parker (son of the eponymous Geoffrey) has personally created this Geoffrey Parker branded set exclusively for 20ltd.com
The alligator case opens to reveal a hand inlaid Shagreen playing field which is complimented by sterling silver Shagreen game pieces and alligator wrapped dice cups.
A Sterling silver disc above the carrying handle is engraved disc with the limited edition number.
Priced at $18,000 – Only 20 editions will ever be made
Becker Automotive Design, known globally for their unique custom limousine and coach conversion vehicles, in alliance with STRUT has developed a special-edition Cadillac Escalade ESV.
“It combines a blend of privacy and European luxury interior craftsmanship with cutting edge mobile office capabilities in a floor to ceiling custom leather interior designed for comfort, convenience, and ergonomic utility.†Continue reading →
Chopard, a Switzerland located company, has released the worlds most expensive watch.
The Chopard 201-carat Watch costs $25 million dollars and features three heart-shaped diamonds, the pink weighs 15 carats, the blue weighs 12 carats and the white weighs 11 carats.
In addition to those the watch bracelet comes festooned in 163 carats of white and yellow flower-like diamonds.
The watch has a spring-loaded mechanism which, when pressed, allows the three heart shapes to mechanically open up to see the time ! Continue reading →
In the city of Mokpo, South Korea, we can see a very mysterious aircraft, which cannot possibly be in flight where it appears to be!
As a matter of fact, we still don’t know how the aircraft was transported to this site, but it turns out to be the world’s fist Boeing 747 converted to a restaurant !
It can accommodate up to 150 tables but it is currently undergoing renovation (it definitely needs one)
SETZER DESIGN, one of the world’s most respected yacht design studios, has unveiled Two Stunning Additions to Its “Vision Line†of Megayachts.
Cerise, a sleek 50 meter/165-foot plumb bow, and Javelin, a grand 73 meter/240-foot vessel are the latest to emerge among Setzer Design Group’s new, futuristic Vision Line of mega-yacht designs.
The “VL-50†Cerise brings an elegant, refined design to life via the studio’s spin on the plumb-bow trend, yet at a more manageable, main-stream market sizing. Expressed in vivid red, the design’s unique styling is underscored by the long, sweeping, retro elements of its superstructure.
High-end speaker producer Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) has recently launched what has to be one of the most stylish iPod docks on the market – The Zeppelin.
It combines outstanding digital sound quality with an exterior that is a piece of art in its own right. It is intelligently designed with ergonomic thought and beautiful, 360 degree, visual appeal.
It includes 5-inch subwoofer, four speakers and an amp that can pump out 100 watts of power.
Designed for the latest generation of iPods and the Iphone3G, the system is also compatible with previous generations of the product and other MP3 and MP4 players. Continue reading →
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie had the twins by caesarean section on Saturday evening at the Lenval hospital on the glamorous Promenade des Anglais waterfront drive in Nice.
Miss Jolie arrived at the Lenval hospital in late June, provoking a media circus with photographers desperate for a picture of the mother-to-be. Though, the bidding war has already begun for the first photos of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, the “world’s most famous children.â€
French newspapers have reported that an American magazine has already offered $20m for the first and exclusive images of the new babies – with all the money going to a worthy cause.
“I’ve never known a set of pictures to be worth this amount of money,” said Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, a celebrity photo agency in London. The only other photos that “would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien”, he said.
Angelina Jolie is expected to stay and rest at the exclusive Lenval hospital in Nice for the next few days and is already enjoying specially couriered-in food for her stay. The actress is then expected to depart as she arrived – in a helicopter taking off from the roof of the building, most likely in the dead of night to avoid being photographed.
The arrival of the twins brings the couple’s family to six. They are already parents to three adopted children: Cambodian boy Maddox, six, Vietnamese boy Pax Thien, four, and Ethiopian girl Zahara, three. Their natural daughter Shiloh was born in Namibia in 2006. After her birth, the couple auctioned off the photo shoot to People magazine in the US and Hello! in Britain for $10m with an undisclosed charity benefiting.
The mayor, Christian Estrosi, seized the opportunity to promote his city by arriving at the hospital to sign the birth certificates wearing a smart suit and full make-up for the TV cameras.
For the past few years the highest sensor resolution available was 39 Megapixels, and for many this was regarded as more than enough (your camera phones have usually a 5 megapixel resolution, at most, and anyway an 8 megapixel digicams is far enough to take great pics)
But Phase One has just announced the 60.5-megapixel P 65+ digital back and camera system. That means images with 8,984 x 6,732 pixels resolution which equals 180MB!
Using Sensor+ CCD technology, the cam can give professional photographers higher sensitivity and expanded dynamic range (12.5 f-stops when most cameras go up to 8) as well as 20 percent more live capture area (as compared with 39 megapixel or 50 megapixel 48mm-by-36mm chips currently available or announced) available with coverage of 53.9mm by 40.4mm, enabling full viewfinder coverage and no need for lens magnification.
It will cost a lot : the P 65+ digital back will start at $39,900 and the P 65+ camera system will start at $41,990 – they both will be available by the end of the year
To mark the launch of the all-new 7 Series, BMW presented its flagship model with a unique installation on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. For two days, a real-life 2009 7-Series was hidden in 180,000 silver balls that filled a giant glass-and-acrylic hourglass, at almost twelve meters high (40 feet), that had been built right in front of the Kremlin on the Red Square of Moscow.
Before the car was officially unveiled, BMW’s all new 7-Series pictures were leaked out on the internet last week. Also, the official day of presentation was supposed to be the 7th of July – 7th day of the 7th month – but it eventually came one day later on the night of the 8th, in an extravagant ceremony !
As 400 invited guests watched, the shiny balls gradually fell down, one by one, thus revealing the BMW’s flagship model, in blue, in its full glory !
Shot by famous celebrity photographer Avinash Gowariker, the cover of Kohl, a recently launched ITP lifestyle magazine targeting Asian women, features Indian actress Katrina Kaif, who is the star of many Bollywood hits and was voted the Sexiest Woman by a famous international magazine.
