Nowhere I’d Rather Be
The gathered crowd – lawyers, army officers, restaurateurs, luxury retailers and your dedicated correspondent – were united by the love of food, drink and fine cigars and by golly, didn’t we prove it…
Browsing: The Lifestyle
The Spirit of Bathtime
Is there anything more therapeutic than a deep bubble bath? Yes: sipping a cold gin and tonic while I soak. Baths and gin are two of my favourite things, which have now blended more completely than I ever could have hoped.
Nuj Novakhett: Fall 2011 Collection
Nuj Novakhett is a New York based womenswear designer, whose eponymous line is already a…
London Fashion Week: A Retrospective
A week in the life of The Arb’s fabulous Fashion Editor, Kate Lawson, as she struts her stuff through the Spring-Summer 2012 shows and parties. Expect Espresso Martinis, pouting in shades, and flashing lights…
Aston Martin Rapide
In my continual training to become an undercover agent (I speak multiple languages, take regular…
Short Fiction: The Phone Call
“This is The Salter Programme.” The voice was British, educated, with a working class burr. “I am calling from Tokyo, and want to inform you that your film script has been selected by our cultural exchange programme.”
Barneys Go Gaga
Barneys is to collaborate with the Queen of the lil’ monsters herself, Lady Gaga, to…
Forty
I went to a 40th birthday party last Saturday. It was full of stupid, sleazy media types braying like donkeys, desperate to be liked, to be younger than they were, to be thought of as important, to be everything other than what they were.
Get Yourself Some Neuw Denim
Neuw Denim is an Australian brand founded by three friends – Par Lundqvist, Stephen Little…
Sex, Vogue & DC10
The sun sets in Ibiza at around 9.57pm, and as the moon comes up so do I, surrounded by a rush and heaving mass of vibrating bass, boom, boom, boom and in my head there, I go, you, me, I, he, all at once.
Rare Smokes at Boisdale
Monty Cristo ventures to Canary Wharf for a full-body massage at the Four Seasons Hotel, followed by a night of debauchery at Boisdale for an international cigar auction of mammoth proportions…
The Dress: Part 3
This is it. Gulp. Well, almost it. So nearly it that it feels like it.…