Life Style

Professional globetrotter and former global editor of Conde Nast Traveler Melinda Stevens selects her secret stays. The one hotel in the world you would stay at again and again Hotel Esencia in Mexico. We’ve gone there over the years and the beach, which sometimes looks pink, and the food, which is exceptional, and the charm of the staff, is hard to beat. If I want to recharge and stare at the most beautiful sea in the world, this is where I come.Most breathtakingly beautiful placeI love a desert. The Atacama in Chile is wild and lunar. The Kalahari in Botswana is extraordinary, salt pans that go on for miles and miles, crusty and rough like elephant skin.Melinda StevensMelinda StevensThe Lanserhof in Germany. Firstly they feed you tiny portions of exquisite food – you’ve never had a potat...

Next on our tour of Cape Town hotels was The Silo (rooms from R24,000 or £1,000, theroyalportfolio.com), which I can only describe as being like a luxury hotel perched on top of the Tate Modern. The Zeitz Mocca (zeitzmocaa.museum) is a contemporary African art gallery, and its location and architecture are the draw. We went to visit its Gaudi-like interior, marvelling at brilliant installations and the building itself. The windows are vast convex diamonds that look out over the V&A Waterfront to one side, and out to Lion’s Head and Seapoint on the other. We were lucky enough to stay in an eighth-floor premium suite with a huge sitting room and bathroom. While Gran painted the view, I took a long bath looking out over the city as the sun went down. Source link

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Like the drink itself the interiors of the hotel are fresh and zingy and complex in its detail. Modern art, custom made furniture and extravagant chandeliers have been placed to enhance the setting rather than dominate it. Spread across two storeys, each of the 47 rooms, as well as the exquisite spa, look out towards the vineyard-studded valley. There are playful touches, too, most notably the bedside ‘Press for Champagne’ button. Source link

Yes, it’s happening, chunky strings of pearls are back. At Celine’s triumph of a Triomphe collection, Hedi Slimane popped them in three strings, left. It picked up on a trend seen in chokers at Dior’s Haute Couture summer show; while at Miu Miu necklace strings were styled askew, which is the kind of can’t-be-bothered detail we can really lean into. Raid your granny’s jewellery box, Vinted or check out Timeless Pearly for playful strings ready to stack. Wear with everything - from your Audrey Hepburn-tinted grown up looks to scruffy jeans. We’ve never not met a face that couldn’t be lightened up by a string or two, or three frankly. Source link

Until eight years ago, as an adult, my regime of wearing makeup daily remained; I’d wake up in the morning, have a shower and then apply it before I went to work. However, in 2016, just weeks before I married my wife Amy, I stopped wearing it. We were to have the ceremony in Jamaica, where Amy and I had been previously when I was 21. I remembered struggling immensely to keep my makeup on in the heat. Source link

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He has dedicated himself to supporting causes that are close to his heart, including children's healthcare, education, and environmental conservation through his involvement with organisations like Heal Los Angeles and the Michael Jackson Foundation. In an interview with Good Morning America, he spoke about his aspirations, saying, "I want to continue my education, continue my philanthropy, and of course, continue my career in entertainment and producing." In a 2020 interview with "Entertainment Tonight," Prince Jackson said his dad would be "very proud" of him as "positivity and happiness" was one of Michael Jackson's "main goals." Source link

‘Well,’ he says, smiling. ‘When I got the first draft of the pilot, I happened to be having lunch with my friend Michael Lewis. Michael wrote The Blind Side, and Moneyball, and The Big Short. He asked what was happening with A Gentleman in Moscow, and I said, “Oh, they actually just sent me the first draft of the pilot, and asked for my thoughts and my input. But, you know, I think they’re just being polite.” Michael pauses, and then just says, “They’re definitely just being polite. Not only do they not want to know your feedback. They wish you were dead.”’ Source link

‘Often it’s over nothing,’ he says, when I ask about what he and St Giles see as common causes of knife attacks. ‘Impulse control, money, prestige. The stimulus can be minimal and the action is horrendous. Occasionally, something more significant, some sort of long, deep-seated issue. But more often than not, it’s trivial — he said this, she said that. A lot of this stuff seems to be an insanely cheap tariff for a life.’ Source link