“One of my career hats has been that of a party planner – my wardrobe is a bit like the shop in Mr Ben – so I went along to Luton Hoo’s ‘How to be the perfect host’ weekend break with more than a little professional curiosity and domestic nerdiness.”
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“Christian Dior claimed that a woman’s perfume told you more about her than her handwriting, and for Coco Chanel no woman had a future without it.” Alison Porter meets a new breed of artisan parfumeur…
“A restlessness pervaded his slightest movements as he sat behind a desk in the small dusty office that overlooked the minarets of the Near East. The call of the muezzin cried and wailed in the distance…”
“When it comes to cigars, the world is neatly cleaved in two. Forget the different regions, the different soils, the climates and the countries. You either smoke Cubans or Non-Cubans.” Behold the New World cigars…
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For over half a century, Valentino has created some of the world’s most elegant and…