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Kazakh artists, Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev make a world art breakthrough at the Venice Biennale
Once again, Venice becomes a stage for the world’s best art with the 57th edition of the Biennale opening this month. Under the direction of Christine Macel, chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, this is the first year that artists from Central Asia are...
Model of the month: Charli Howard
LUX contributing editor and Storm model, Sydney Lima continues her online exclusive series, interviewing her peers about modelling life and business. THIS MONTH: 26 year old British model, Charli Howard is certainly not just a pretty face. A woman at the forefront of...
Sophia Kah CEO and designer, Ana Teixeria de Sousa on sophisticated style
Fashion designer Ana Teixeira de Sousa began working with textiles at a very young age, making dresses for her dolls in her grandmother’s textile factory in Portugal. Launched in 2011, her luxury womenswear label Sophia Kah (named after her grandmother) is now global,...
Dining with Lord Charles Bruce at Broomhall House, Scotland
For the first time since its construction in 1702, the ancestral home of the Bruce family (the Earls of Elgin and Kincardine) is open as an exclusive venue for private events, in collaboration with Wild Thyme and Hickory luxury catering, chauffeur service Little’s and...
Artist and architect, Nadim Karam’s urban fantasies
Born in Senegal, and raised in Lebanon, Nadim Karam is an architect, painter, sculptor, writer and designer. With his Beirut-based multidisciplinary design studio, Atelier Hapsitus, Karam has created large-scale urban art projects in Paris, Prague, Dubai, London,...
Exhibition of the Month: Past Skin, MoMa PS1, New York
Look around you. How many screens do you see? How many of us are living in the virtual realm? Our world is being continually altered, shaped and scripted by technology and our bodies along with it. Social media allows us to curate our identity whilst virtual reality...
Model of the Month: Rianne ten Haken
LUX contributing editor and Storm model, Sydney Lima continues her online exclusive series, interviewing her peers about modelling life and business. THIS MONTH: Dutch model, Rianne ten Haken was discovered at the tender of age of 14 by Elite models, making her debut...
Hotel of the Month: Hôtel Plaza Athénée, Paris
Why should I go now? Paris in the spring; summer fashions adorning the Parisiennes and their offspring and canines; do you have no romance? The Avenue Montaigne, upon which Hôtel Plaza Athénée sits like a palace, is the most sophisticated retail street in the world,...
Keeping up with London’s Pace: Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst on Richard Tuttle and the future of the gallery
Pace, one of the big five leading contemporary art galleries in the world represents more than 80 artists and estates, in New York, London, and Beijing. Their latest exhibition in London ‘The Critical Edge’ explores Richard Tuttle’s use of fabric to...
Fashion’s New Face: William Fan
Following his debut runway show at the 2015 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin, William Fan has emerged as one of the most exciting new talents in the fashion world and was recently selected as this year’s winner of the prestigious Mercedes-Benz International...
The man who makes dream fragrances: Rami Mekdachi
Rami Mekdachi has worked as a perfumer for over twenty years, collaborating with some of the world’s best known brands, such as L’Oréal, Colette, Lacoste and Chloé. And now, he’s created his own high-concept brand, Lola James Harper, bringing...
Exhibition of the month: Marsden Hartley’s Maine, The Met Breuer, New York
American artist Marsden Hartley travelled extensively throughout his life, labelling himself “the painter of Maine“. Indeed the state’s rugged, lush landscape recurs in many forms throughout the artist’s extensive body of work, revealing a...
Model of the month: Alicia Rountree
LUX contributing editor and Storm model, Sydney Lima continues her online exclusive series, interviewing her peers about modelling life and business. THIS MONTH: Mauritian-born Alicia Rountree leads a hectic life doubling as both supermodel and restaurateur. Since...
Beyond Hygge: Copenhagen’s Coolest
A young writer’s view on why Copenhagen makes such an impression; and her pick of six hip young Danes, talking about why their capital is the best city in the world. And, no, it’s not about the hygge Copenhagen is fast becoming the coolest Scandinavian kid on the...
Our disappearing wildlife
Leyla Aliyeva and Hervé Mikaeloff hosted the event in Berlin As a race, we are responsible for wreaking a unique destruction on our planet. More than 90% of the world’s population of elephants, lions, rhinos and countless other species have been wiped out by our...
Sushi Shop: Bringing casual top end sushi gastronomy to Paris and the world
Sushi Shop is a ground-breaking global sushi chain, combining takeaway casual, fine-dining quality, experimental cuisine, and collaborations with some of the world’s greatest chefs. Kitty Harris floats between branches in London and Paris to discover more Grégory...
Hotel of the Month: Ritz Carlton, Hong Kong
Why should I go? March sees the arrival of the international fine art circus and party known as Art Basel in Hong Kong. While the Asian edition of the fair is not as lofty as the original in Switzerland, and less sexy than the Miami version which sweeps together...
Emilia Wickstead’s A/W collection impresses at London Fashion Week
Olivia Palermo Narmina Marandi, Emilia Wickstead and Alice Naylor-Leyland Erin O’Connor Velvet, florals and Swarovski pearls, Emilia Wickstead unveiled her stunning Autumn/Winter collection at London Fashion week to a star-studded front row. With London Fashion...
Exhibition of the month: David Hockney, Tate Britain, London
As David Hockney approaches his 80th birthday, the Tate Britain celebrates his vast and varied body of work in the largest retrospective to date. From his most famous works, the vibrant, geometric images of Los Angeles swimming pools through to the avant-garde,...
Delhi: an aesthetic adventure in India’s chaotic capital
In the past, India’s heaving capital has been a fly-in, fly-out destination for most tourists, but with a booming art scene and the recent opening of the Hyatt hotel group’s, coolest counterpart, Andaz, Delhi is fast developing its own allure. Yet,...
Model of the month: Joanna Halpin
The models who look at us from our magazine covers and Instagram feeds are often astute businesspeople as well as subjects for fashion stylists and photographers. They are now “360 degree creatives”, raising revenue from everything from social media to...
The Lifeline Humanitarian Organisation Auction
Auctioning ROKSANDA dresses from super-hot designer Roksanada Ilincic and works by Serbian artist Cile Marinkovic was always going to raise some hands. This week, LUX joined a select audience of eager bidders at the Lifeline charity auction in Mayfair, London. The...
Photography series: Jaipur Literature Festival 2017
The annual Jaipur Literature Festival is the world’s largest free literary festival, attracting crowds of book-loving enthusiasts from across the globe. Set in the grounds of Hotel Diggi Palace, the festival is a jungle labyrinth of performance spaces welcoming...
Exhibition of the month: Give Me Yesterday, Fondazione Prada, Milan
In a society bombarded with images and digital platforms our lives are constantly being recorded through new perspectives. The inaugural exhibition in Fondazione Prada’s newest space, the Osservatorio at Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Give Me Yesterday...
Wild Luxury in Zimbabwe
Not far from the Victoria Falls, down dusty, winding tracks of thick red Saharan sand, hides one of the world’s newest luxury safari camps: &beyond’s Matetsi River Lodge. Digital Editor Millie Walton visits the banks of the Zambezi River, watched by a...
6 foodie delights in Amsterdam
From a five course interactive dining experience to hip burger joints and Dutch pancakes, Francesca Peaks discovers Amsterdam’s best gastronomic secrets
Nobu’s ex-head chef, Scott Hallsworth opens Christmas pop-up: Mr. Pig
Ex-Nobu head chef, Scott Hallsworth, provides Londoners with a rare insight into some of his favourite foods at a wonderfully wintery pop-up that will have your taste-buds tingling and your eyes all aglow this festive season.
From the Karoo to the Cape on Rovos Rail
Journeying through desert, diamond fields and wine lands, South Africa’s luxurious vintage train line takes Digital Editor, Millie Walton from the country’s capital of Pretoria to Cape Town
Cointreau partners with Liberty London for a good cause
Supermodel Erin O’Connor, actress Clara Paget and Alfred Cointreau crammed into a leafy green photo booth for creative picture and video calls during a slightly surreal launch party earlier this week in central London.
Fotofever: the new world of photography
Fotofever Paris is a friendly kind of art fair. It welcomes newcomers, whether or not their pockets are deep, and favours fresh faced talent. Ahead of the fair’s fifth edition, held under the majestic roof of the Carrousel du Louvre, Millie Walton speaks to the...
Rustic luxury at Babbacombe Bay hotel, Cary Arms
Digital Editor, Millie Walton drives down to Devon to rediscover the charming imperfections of the English coastline from the cosy luxury of a cliff-side beach hut
6 of the coolest places to drink and dine in East London
Czech beers, Bloody Marys, live jazz and padron peppers, East London’s gastronomic scene is more vibrant than ever. Digital Editor, Millie Walton picks some of her favourite spots for drinking and dining in the city’s trendiest neighbourhoods
Inside Maserati’s Pop Up Suite at Hotel de Paris
For a few months every year, a new luxury brand takes up residence in Suite 321 at Hotel de Paris. Most recently, Maserati has been handed the keys. Millie Walton takes the room for a test drive
Flight of the billionaire: my private jet to Monaco
Millie Walton takes to the skies with Bombardier to experience the high life of a billionaire
VIP tour of The Monaco Grand Prix with Rolex
Speed and posing in Monte Carlo: Francesca Peak revels in the most glamorous destination on the F1 calendar, courtesy of Rolex
Stefania Pramma: constructing timeless elegance
For the launch of her AW16 collection, luxury accessory designer Stefania Pramma teamed up with artist Sara Berman to create a playful installation of handbags and paintings, displayed for one night only in the colourful interiors of 5 Hertford Street’s exclusive nightclub, Loulou’s. Millie Walton spoke to the designer about her inspiration, Italian heritage and obsession with dogs.
Jacky Tsai: From China with Love
Jacky Tsai famously designed the iconic Alexander McQueen skull during an internship placement at the couture house, but the artist is now a name in his own right, as Millie Walton discovers Millie Walton: What does it mean to be the first Chinese artist signed by the...
The Electric Recording Company: Nuanced Sounds
For many, the 1950s and early 60s was the golden age for music, an era of artistic experimentation and precise analogue audio reproduction, but mint condition vinyl albums from this time are increasingly rare to find and ludicrously expensive to buy. Fortunately, this...
Investing in a Porsche 911 Turbo
By Darius Sanai Editor in Chief Like art, fine wine and limited-edition watches, classic cars fall into the category of what luxury analysts call “Investments of Passion” – stuff you can enjoy while its value rises. But, leaving aside the question of potential...
Colombia Diaries
Once one of the most dangerous destinations on the globe, Colombia is in the midst of a renaissance. Millie Walton discovers the unique charms of the country’s most beautiful city, Cartagena The sky is a dramatic swirl of pinks and oranges, as we sail into...