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Long afternoons flicking through the sun-cracked pages of a novel, poolside; al fresco dinners rustled together from local market jaunts; endless games of cards into the still evening, always to a lazy cicada chorus. There is nothing quite like a Mediterranean summer holiday, when you forget what day it is and while away hours on a sun lounger or on morning ambles for fresh bread. It recalls the delicious boredom of childhood – one technology cruelly wrenched from us – where the crunch of brittle grass underfoot is observed and the eye is afforded time to trace the outline of the hills and soak in the surrounding bucolic oomph. Sleek, otter-like bodies surge from pools and flop onto warm towels, and along the coast, friends nurse gin and tonics with tight, sun-kissed skin as the water in t...

Whether you’re tight because you’ve been caning the gym since it reopened, or are simply still suffering from ongoing WFH aches and pains - a massage gun is a game-changing investment that will serve a purpose way beyond post-pandemic life.Massage vibration devices deliver percussive therapy by way of short pulses of pressure to the soft tissue. While they initially launched as a saviour to your DOMS (delayed-onset muscle soreness) after a hefty HIIT sesh, many now use one daily as part of their self-care regime. What are the benefits of percussive therapy?  “The overarching use is often focused on recovery, but applications can also be seen in preparing the body for movement, sport or exercise, and for daily self-care,” says Steve Powell, director of education at Power Plate UK. “Benefit...

It’s easy for men to get summer style wrong — should you wear shorts in the office? Can you look smart and not overheat? How can you pull off a lively, summer shirt? Here, we’ve put together dos and don’ts to help boys get through every compromising situation they could find themselves in during the hotter months: from the pub to the beach, via London Fields. (Some starters: dress up, slide into loafers, lean into preppy and be sure to give invisible socks a hard pass). How to dress on holiday: SMR DaysDo: Be brave, try matching your top and bottoms Don’t write off co-ords for men altogether. Tinie Tempah proved sky blue Issey Miyake slacks with a matching shade shirt works at Maro Itoje’s charity art sale, while Stormzy is a fan of the Homme Plissé short and shirt set in forest green. Bri...

Now, onto the sleep package: when you enter your room, there’s a kit containing a headset, a dream journal, a lucid dreaming guide, and LabTonica’s Unplugged range. The idea behind the headset is to take you on an AI-driven journey designed to allow lucid dreaming, effectively like zoning out with images morphing before your eyes, your mind becomes buttery and soft as you ‘sleep’ — but lucidly, i.e. you are in control of your body and can command what’s happening while drifting. Dream expert Charlie Morley says it, “helps people reduce stress and enhance their emotional processing, as well as improving their quality of sleep and sleep pattern.” I found the set up innovative and surprisingly effective, feeling inspired and rested the following day. Source link

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The first guests to arrive were, as ever, this year’s jury; helmed by Barbie director Greta Gerwig, it consists of Killers of the Moons actor Lily Gladstone, Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, Spanish producer and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, French actor Eva Green, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki and French actor and producer Omar Sy. Source link

He pitched his more modern approach deep in the Tanks of the Tate, which had been decorated with a cacophony of greenery bursting out of the ceiling, floor and across pillars (styled from 10,000 plants which will be donated to local community projects) offering a kind of juxtaposition which he underscored in the collection itself - a study in the unexpected style non-rules London is synonymous with. Gritty meets pretty if you will, or as De Sarno puts it, “Fashion design is a means to study, explore, interpret. After having expressed my ideas of desirability and sensuality, this is another piece of me, more romantic, more contradictory. I like taking something that we think we know and breaking away from its rules, taking it as far as it can go, without ever distorting it. Bringing it towa...

Gucci showing here is all good and glossy PR for this city, but it does highlight something rather awkward for our homegrown style stars. Aside from Burberry, none of our other major British brands show in London any more. For its 40th anniversary London Fashion Week didn’t have Vivienne Westwood (now helmed by the late designer’s husband Andreas Kronthaler), Paul Smith, Alexander McQueen, Victoria Beckham or Stella McCartney, who have all decamped to Paris for its haute glitz and high-fashion positioning. Gucci has come here for cultural grit and cool; all our lot want is European polish (and customers). Source link

Saying ‘yes’ to the dress is a big deal. On average, brides in the UK can expect to pay around £1,300 for their wedding dress, but you could easily spend over £5,000 depending on the style and designer (and your budget). With that in mind, you want to make sure the dress is not only beautiful, it’s comfortable too. Source link

There are two tennis courts on-site, one overlooking the sea and both free for guests to use. But the real highlight of Highcliffe is its recently-opened, state-of-the-art gym, yoga and pilates studio, which hosts retreats as well as daily yoga, pilates, meditation and sound-healing classes, including one-on-one pilates sessions. Source link