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What an honour to be one of the privileged few to attend the UK Preview of The Phantom Thread at the Royal Festival Hall last week. To make the occasion even more special, we were treated to a live Q&A with the films director Paul Thomas Anderson and composer Jonny Greenwood beforehand, hosted by renowned ...
Sitting down to write this, I’m ashamed to admit, I feel slightly torn. Because La Mirande is like nowhere else I’ve ever had the good fortune to stay. And a big part of me wants to keep it as my little secret, my little escape, a place almost too good to share. Like an enormous ...
“There is no other country in the world, besides my own, whose way of life I like so much. I love English Traditions, English politeness, English Architecture. I even love English cooking”. Christian Dior The great and the good of the fashion industry gathered to pay homage at the alter of Dior yesterday, viewing the ...
This page was blank for a long, long time. Not because I couldn’t think of anything to say about The Silo Hotel. Quite the opposite. It was because there were so many ways to start the story of our stay, so many fabulous moments, that I really had no idea where to begin. We may ...
International Excellence Magazine photographed their latest fashion shoot at the exclusive Emsworth Polo Grounds in Windsor. They play polo all year round here, either in the wooden arena or on their immaculate grass fields. The horses they supplied for the fashion shoot were magnificent and behaved impeccably and you can see how attached the models, ...
I was warmly greeted by Brendan as I ambled out of Dublin airport security. It’s been a while since I was last in Dublin and his easy charm and humour made me regret that as he escorted me over to the Jameson’s Bow Street Distillery, for a couple of days whiskey blending and tasting to ...
Maserati has now brought the V6 petrol engine to the Levante GranLusso in the UK and it will make you fall in love with Maserati again. You can have two trim versions above the standard Levante: the GranSport, which is more speed orientated or the luxury styled version, the GranLusso. The Maserati Levante GranLusso sports ...
International eXcellence Interviews International Lawyer Mr Sarosh Zaiwalla Where and what was your childhood like? I was fifth born in a Parsee family of six. My father had qualified as an English solicitor, who had returned to India after qualifying in London and commenced his own practice in Mumbai. I went to a Jesuit ...
As summer gives way to autumn many people put holiday plans on hold. Christmas feels like a long way off, but given the modern world’s ant hill-like busyness we all know it will be upon us before we know it. Nevertheless, this is a great time of year to get away and catch some last ...
International Excellence Luxury Magazine photographed the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider at The Devonshire Club in London. This little beauty in yellow drew many admiring glances during the shoot, and was a delight to drive through London even during rush hour. Our own Yves de Contades photographed the lovely Zavi (Zavinta Karsokaite) from Profile Models, who ...
It is always the way, to find the best you have to seek it out. That is quite a job when you are looking for a ski chalet in the world’s largest ski area which comprises so many villages and resorts. The resorts include Courchevel 1850 with 15 five star hotels, a Milky Way of ...
Nagorno-Karabakh, apart from being notoriously difficult to pronounce and also particularly problematic to place on a map, is somewhat unknown in the wider world. Located in-between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh was the scene for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the late 80s and early 90s. When Armenia and Azerbaijan went to war the disintegration ...