The Peninsula Hotel Shanghai’s gala opening
As covered in the main part of our site today, the Peninsula Hotel Shanghai opened its doors with a gala event on March 18. Below is a six-minute video featuring some of the entertainment at the opening, including speeches from Sir Michael Kadoorie and David Wang, whose companies own the new property. You may also […]
Fashion Museum of Hasselt looks inside model Hannelore Knuts’s world
Model Hannelore Knuts, 32, has curated an exhibition, Fashion Testimony, to be shown at the Fashion Museum of Hasselt from March 27 to June 6, 2010. Knuts’s exhibition offers a glance at her 10-year career, which includes working the professional catwalk at Chanel, Gucci and other top European labels. Designers featured in the […]
Second sculpture outside Te Papa unveiled
Top Peter Trevalyan’s Mimetic Brotherhood. Above left The jazz entertainers at the post-launch function. Above right Sculptor Peter Trevelyan. The Wellington Sculpture Trust unveiled Peter Trevelyan’s Mimetic Brotherhood outside Te Papa on Wednesday. A kinetic sculpture—which changes thanks to hydraulics—it replaces Green Islands by Regan Gentry, which had stood at the same location until last […]
Queensland Art Gallery to present Hats: an Anthology by Stephen Jones
Peter Ashworth/www.ashworth-photos.com Above Milliner Stephen Jones in 2008 (image from the Victoria & Albert Museum). The Queensland Art Gallery will present an exclusive-to-Australia exhibition, Hats: an Anthology by Stephen Jones, a collaboration between the Victoria & Albert Museum and milliner Stephen Jones, from March 27 to June 27, 2010. The exhibition features over 250 […]
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue models head to Las Vegas
Considering the media attention surrounding Brooklyn Decker and her 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover, Las Vegas’s move to arrange for 11 of its models to appear seems very prudent. The 11 women are there for a three-day programme, which includes photo ops, events and signing copies of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Below […]
A special promotion at the Luna Hotel Baglioni in Venezia. On Friday, February 12 you can be part of the ‘Ball of the Baglioni Counts’ and on Saturday the 13th attend the Great Carnival Ball, writes Stanley Moss […]
Giorgio Armani to open hotel in Burj Khalifa in March
It’s quite a way to kick off our news coverage for the year: the opening of the Burj Khalifa, standing 828 m (2,716½ ft). Giorgio Armani has announced that it will open Armani Hotel Dubai in the world’s tallest building on March 18. The hotel is the first to open under the collaboration between […]
Today on the site: dining out in Chicago
Elyse Glickman Things didn’t slow down over the past week, though there was less news to report. However, we do have Elyse Glickman’s special on Chicago dining online today—fitting, given it’s President Barack Obama’s former state. A few shots didn’t make it in to the layout, and we showcase them here. Crab cakes at […]
TripAdvisor lists its top 10 extreme New Year events
Above Kayaking in San Francisco Bay is one of the top 10 New Year’s events on TripAdvisor’s ‘extreme’ list. TripAdvisor has announced its top 10 extreme New Year’s events for those seeing in 2010 in the US and Europe. And Tampa, Fla. is the site’s last-minute bargain destination, with hotel rates of US$139. New […]
Bentley lends its name to skis
Bentley has extended its brand again, this time to hand-made skis from Switzerland. The skis, poles and ski bag have been created by Zai with input from Bentley’s Styling Studio. The Zai skis are made in a limited edition of 250 numbered pairs, and début a new type of carbonfibre dubbed Zaiìra. The […]
