After weeks of speculation, Emma Watson has finally been unveiled as the new face of Burberry.
Despite persistent rumours linking her to Chanel, and her ubiquitous presence at international fashion shows, Burberry is the first major advertising campaign that the 19-year-old Harry Potter star has landed.
The campaign was shot by Mario Testino near Burberry’s new headquarters not far from Westminster Abbey, and shows true British weather (grey and cold) whilst Emma poses with several male models. Continue reading →
Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich’s mega-yacht ‘Eclipse’ has finally made a preliminary launch at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany where it was built secretly for more than two years.
Estimated to have cost around $500 million, the vessel is nearly 170 meters long.
It has room for 24 guests, with a crew of 70. It is 13,000 tonnes, and can achieve a top speed of 33 knots. Its cruising speed is 22 knots. Continue reading →
Luxury mobile artist Givori – known for his ugly creations including the Serendipity and Nefertiti – designs the Via Veneto collection, inspired by the shopping street in Rome.
Via Veneto features full grain Italian leather hand-finished with delicate metallic foil, 18 karat Italian rose gold plating, and 0.3 karat diamonds.
The Classic edition is targeted towards men and women, with a snake-embossed leather shell. The Exclusive edition is more feminine with its gold screen, diamond encrusted logo, and scratch resistant glass. Continue reading →
Porsche said China may pass Germany as its second-biggest market within three years on rising wages and demand for new Panamera sports sedan.
Porsche unveiled the car at the Shanghai auto show in April, the first time it debuted a new model outside of Europe or North America.
“All premier manufacturers are showing good results” in China, Helmut Broeker, Porsche’s China head, said in a June 12 interview in Shanghai. Continue reading →
Saudi Arabian princess Maha Al Sudairi, the wife of Saudi Arabia’s interior minister Naif bin Abdulaziz, is a well-known figure in French luxury boutiques.
Spending 140,000 Euros on clothing and a further 30,000 a week on dry cleaning is not a big deal for her.
She loves Paris – but the city’s high-end shop owners have accused her of robbing them. Al Sudairi has allegedly failed to pay her bills in the last few months. Continue reading →
If you happen to have a passion for cars and cigars, then this limited edition carbon fiber cigar humidor called “The Cylinder†from Lamborghini is for you.
The high laquered rosewood carbon fiber design is finished in leather and premium kiln-dried Spanish cedar and is crowned with the symbolic Bull Crest.
Several compartments in this furniture unit hold somewhere around 150 cigars will great care and style. Price: $330
To mark six years of collaboration and the release of the Multicolor Spring Palette, Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami just released a colorful anime short film as a sequel to Murakami’s “Superflat Monogram” anime short from 2003.
Entitled “Superflat First Love†the film showcases a school girl experiencing all the fascinations of Murakami’s characters which are part of his latest project with Louis Vuitton with this mystical journey starting outside the store.
The trailer was released back in late April, but now the full film is available. Continue reading →
We’ve seen green, blue, and red, now have the fourth and final colorway of the limited Nixon Rubber Player.
Personally, I find the Yellow Rubber Player much more attractive than the previous three releases – the color just seems to pop out more.
It takes the same shape and design as the other three other variants, decked in a unified flowing rubber body, with only the hands, the emblem, a single crystal and the steel-plate at the back breaking the unified hue. Continue reading →
Boston real estate officials said an anonymous buyer set a city record by paying $300,000 for a private parking space.
It is the most expensive parking space in the city’s history, according to Debra Sordillo of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, who brokered the deal.
Debra Sordillo said several residents at 48 Commonwealth Ave. engaged in a bidding war for the space, driving the asking price of $250,000 up to the record-breaking $300,000. Continue reading →
China may become the world’s biggest luxury market in some years but cultural challenges to win customers’ hearts for certain types of products remain, industry executives said this week.
Champagne house Taittinger said it could make high-end sparkling wine in China but the market was not ready for it yet…
… while Lamborghini said the country’s tradition of luxury chauffeurs, bigger than sports driving, made expansion there a challenge. Continue reading →
This breathtaking dolls house is about to sell for £50,000 -the price of several real homes on the UK property market – after winning the heart of an overseas collector.
The tiny 10-bed mansion, with its own servants’ quarters, a music room with grand piano, a hand-crafted games room with snooker table and a library with over 1,000 separately bound books, took Peter Riches a painstaking 15 years to complete.
He has spent an average of eight hours every day since 1994 working on the miniature mansion, his biggest ever project.
Paris Hilton has reportedly twittered pictures of her “Mini Doggie Mansion,†which is a miniature version of her own Beverly Hills mansion.
The luxurious kennel comes complete with air conditioning, chandeliers, an ornate staircase, doggie wardrobe and miniature versions of her own furniture in a two-story construction overlooking her pool.
An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress she said had almost $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites on Wednesday.
The woman told The Associated Press that she bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise present on Monday — and threw out the old one.
The next day, she said, she remembered that she had hidden her life savings inside the old mattress. “I woke up in the morning screaming, when it hit me what happened,” said the Tel Aviv woman. Continue reading →
The idea of driving a $1.4 million dollar sports car is nothing but a fleeting fantasy for most of us.
The Bugatti Veyron availability alone could make it difficult for you to get your hands on one, even if you have the means otherwise.
A company in the UK called Holders Vehicle Contracts wants to change that by offering the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world to customers as a rental. Continue reading →
A Pablo Picasso sketchbook worth several million dollars has been stolen from a museum in Paris.
There is no sign of a break-in at the Picasso Museum in the Marais area of the city, yet the red notebook containing 33 pencil drawings disappeared on Monday night, police said.
The sketchbook has been valued at $9.8 Million to $14 Million. Continue reading →
In anticipation of this year’s cricket season, the British fashion designer Paul smith has endowed the cricket ball with his trademark multicolour stripes.
The ball has 100% natural cork innards and is wrapped with premium leather.
Each finished with his rabbit icon embossed in gold and presented in its own gift box. Continue reading →
Modelled by actress Alicia Witt at Christie’s in London, Chapeau d’Amour—the “hat of love”—was created by celebrity couture designer Louis Mariette in 2004. While far removed from everyday wear like latex clothing, it illustrates fashion’s ability to push boundaries through unconventional materials and spectacular craftsmanship.
Made of woven platinum and covered in stunning diamonds, the hat was inspired by ivy and bluebells. Made of woven platinum and covered in stunning diamonds, the hat was inspired by ivy and bluebells. Couture pieces like Mariette’s remain singular commissions, but the impulse behind them, the desire for headwear that signals identity, occasion, or affiliation, drives a much broader market for bespoke headwear today, from heritage milliners to American manufacturers like https://montereycompany.com/hats/, where teams, military units and corporate brands commission custom hats marked with their own emblems and embroidery.
