Una Bella Vita picks-up the memory of Chelsea De Luca’s muse, art-deco artist and socialite Tamara de Lempicka.
The painter’s flamboyant soft-cubism portraiture captured risqué bohemians and the magnificent lives of the aristocrats that lived in Paris during the Twenties. Lempicka retired her career in the Seventies to live a life in Mexico, after times changed and glamour wasn’t existent enough to inspire her future works.
De Luca’s dedication to revive the vintage of the glitterati has gained her patrons including Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicky Hilton, among many of the modern day icons who follow her. Her signature pieces are bold as they are beautiful and depict the legacy of a long forgotten era. The Una Bella Vita collection uses strong estate-esque coloured jewels combined with gold.
Stockist details are available from shop@chelseadeluca.com.au
Pan Dei Palais is the love story of Bannu Pan Dei, the young Princess of Chamba, and General Jean-François who made their palace in Saint Tropez.
Today, the boutique hotel has twelve rooms that enthuse the luxury of the French Riviera with the charm of the Eastern Princess’ history. Twelve rooms are filled with intrinsic furniture, wooden floors and Iroko beds that have been hand made from pieces recovered from the ruins of temples in India.
The hotel promises that ‘Pan Dei Palais has kept the size and spirit of a family home while offering the services of a palace.’ For the epicurean who seeks scenery and recreation, the garden features honeymoon beds and large sofas canopies. The tea service is a daily ritual.
The Pan Dei Palais also offers a floating palace for guests wanting to relax around the Côte d’Azur with tranquillity. The Motor Yacht of Pan Dei has a length of 31 meters that sits in the port of Saint-Tropez. Five staff, eight beds and an indoor and outdoor living room are just small luxuries for visitors swimming or lounging on the French Riviera.
Prices range from € 195 in low season for a classic room until € 1,395 for the Two-bedroom in high season.
Angela McCluskey’s new single Handle with Grace , featuring TelePopMusik, is from her second album You Can Start A Fight In An Empty House. The video was shot in downtown LA with 1950s style soft-tint lenses, animated with digitally mastered origami birds that touch the music story as it passes on our screens. It’s the second hit single that’s a collaboration with the French electronic pop trio. The last, Breathe, became a massive global dance hit, Grammy nominated, and tailed with a round the world tour spent ‘Telepopping ’.
Angela’s distinctive soft-soulful voice has allowed her to move into numerous music genres. This album, her first solo in five years, gathers more eclecticism with artists, counting Guns N’ Roses Richard Fortus and a revisit back to TelePopMusik, among many. Eighteen thousand copies of this album sold in three days through a Face Book marketing Campaign ‘Take Five’ by her label Bernadette Records. You Can Start a Fight In An Empty House is available exclusively through Bernadette Online Record Store.
On the fifth floor of 240 Regent Street, there’s a fusion of two different cuisines in Aqua Nueva and Aqua Kyoto. The interior is art-deco with a bronze bull at the heart of the hall joining the two venues. The smell of Rioja wine is faint but fitting in the Spanish restaurant that’s decorated with crystal-drop chandeliers. In the summer nights, there’s a seated balcony holding a view overlooking the centre of the capital. Nueva holds an atmosphere that feels more bustling than the quieter sophistication of the Japanese restaurant in the next room. The menu consists of tapas, lavishly presented on grand silver platters, with other choices of riche-antipasto. Mains are not found on a standard Spanish menú del día, but served with tender meats and fresh bread baked in different types, and replenished throughout the meal. Aqua-spirit drinks are served in classic cocktail glasses at the bar, just after the exits of Nueva and Kyoto. This is an evening that would cost around £60 per person and it’s become a favourable haunt on the London social-circuit.
Who doesn’t remember their first digital watch. You end up fussing with all the buttons trying to set the time appropriately. Once that was done, how on earth do you set the alarm and utilize the stop-watch feature? The woes of a digital watch, but you can’t argue with the fun colors and themes they came in. As a child I wanted to be “grown-up” and didn’t want to seem juvenile reading time from a digital watch, so I didn’t give them a second look.
Long gone are those days, now that we’re wiser, and smarter I’ve given digital watches another try. Now digital watches look retro and can be considered “vintage,” and some look as if they came from the future. As a sports enthusiast I find myself wearing a digital watch 24/7. To measure distance, calculate heart-rate, calculate time etc. It’s always the case of “I wish I knew then what I knew now.” Now that I have the patience and need for a digital watch, they give a different connotation from when I was in grade school. When I see a fellow citizen wearing one, I instantly think “he’s an athlete, adventurous, and if the watch is colorful, he’s easy going and fun.” By no means should we judge a person by his or her watch, but our choices do reflect a part of our character. Whether you’re nostalgic and re-visiting the past, following fashion trends, or counting every minute lost or gained from a run, digital watches has become a great solution for everyday use regardless your lifestyle. Luckily with most digital watches you don’t have to think twice about jumping into the pool. Save your Patek Philippes for the boardroom.
Casio- $99 available at my.casio.com
Old Navy- $11 available at oldnavy.com
FreeStyle-$60 available at freestyleusa.com
Kenneth Cole – $95 available at kennethcole.com
Timex- $55 available at Bloomingdales.com
Ha:Sang;Beg, launches BeBeFaTal in London this July before the showcasing of his first presentation at London Fashion Week this Fall. The BeBedition No.01, a limited edition unisex T-shirt, with necklace, has been created to mark the Seoul based designers return to the English capital, where he once studied at Central Saint Martins. This will be celebrated with a pop-up store at The Convenience Store in Westbourne Grove and a VIP guest listed party at Bungalow 8 in London. The Ha:Sang;Beg line is sold through BeBeFaTal OnLine Shopping mall, BeBeFaTal Shop, Flow concept Store in Seoul, The Convenience Store and Squatters in London.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) named David Neville and Marcus Wainwright for Rag & Bone menswear designer of the year 2010. Rag & Bone is a label born out of the shared frustrations of Marcus Wainwright and David Neville not being able to buy the jeans they wanted to wear. They founded the company in 2002 with one very clear vision in mind: to make clothes that they and their friends would love to wear everyday. The men’s line launched in Spring 2004 in 4 stores in the US – with distribution increasing to over 120 stores for the men’s line and 160 stores for the women’s line worldwide. AW10 saw the first separate menswear runway show during NYFW with the conquest of Mount Everest in the 1920’s as the inspiration for the collection. The collection stayed true to Rag & Bone’s signature style, with a fusion of New York street-style and English military & formalwear as inspiration for explorers and mountaineers. Rag & Bone is available at Liberty’s, Brown’s Focus, Harrods & Matches.
All Wet Beach Swimwear is genius because if you are on holiday in the Caribbean and are in need of beach fashion they can get it to you right away. AWB are experts in swimwear and can assist in preparing the perfect beach wardrobe for destination honeymoons and winter holidays in the sun.
All Wet Beachwear sells carefully selected ranges of high-fashion swimwear, cover caps, hats and sandals from brands such as Agua Bendita, Beach Bunny, Cia Maritima, Despi, L*Space, Luli Fama, Poko Pano and Vix. All Wet Beachwear is US based but are experts in International shipping, providing high end service to customers in the USA, Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas, Grand Cayman, Barbados, Antigua, Australia, and a host of other countries.
For more details of the brand visit www.allwetbeachwear.com.