The super luxury Lanesborough hotel in London has teamed up with Harvey Nichols for a luxury swimwear fashion show and Champagne afternoon tea.
If you have your holiday booked to somewhere exotic but need to update your resort wear wardrobe, where better than The Lanesborough?
Situated on the borders of Knightsbridge and Belgravia, in the heart of London and with panoramic views of Hyde Park, The Lanesborough has long been considered one of the world’s most luxurious hotels.
Together with Leading fashion store, Harvey Nichols, you can celebrate the arrival of summer with a Champagne Afternoon Tea on Friday 1st July. Harvey Nichols will showcase its most established brands’ latest resort wear, with guests being able to draw inspirations from designers such as Heidi Klein, We Are Handsome and Missoni.
As guests sip champagne and indulge in The Lanesborough’s sumptuous afternoon tea at famed restaurant Apsleys (pictured above), models will show the latest in exclusive resort wear styles.
Heidi Gosman and Penny Klein the duo behind Heidi Klein will be on hand throughout the event to offer tips on how to achieve the perfect beach appeal.
The Lanesborough and Harvey Nichols Champagne Afternoon Tea will be held on Friday 1st July, from 4.00pm to 5.30pm and is priced at £49.00 per person plus 12.5% Service Charge.
The UK’s first Luxury Indian wedding show comes to London in July.
Ardhanginni, The Indian Wedding, Destination and Lifestyle Show will showcase the very best that India has to offer in wedding planning, lifestyle, destinations, fashion and beauty, making it a one-stop event for anyone planning their big day, and beyond.
India’s wedding industry is worth $19bn and growing at an annual rate of 25% (Times of India, 2010) and the colourful, romantic cultural traditions of an Indian wedding are proving a popular choice among mainstream cultures as well, endorsed by celebrity couples such as Russell Brand and Katy Perry.
Presenting the most bespoke services in the kaleidoscopic Indian wedding market, the event is a high end lifestyle, fashion and bridal exhibition which will bring the timeless experience to everyone who dreams of a celebration as rich, colourful and sumptuous as a typically Indian wedding.
The Indian Wedding, Destination and Lifestyle Show will showcase the crème de la crème in the world of luxury bridal design and wedding services, with a carefully selected portfolio of some of the biggest names in fashion, beauty and lifestyle being presented at the exhibition.
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London’s Opera Gallery are at it again, tearing up the rule book and leading the way in the Art world.
Last week, saw the gallery host a live street art performance, featuring Lussorian favourite Rich Simmons.
Simmons famously created his mural of the Queen as a Graffiti artist, which was perfect in time for the Royal Wedding.
Many high profile figures made it to the live street art performance, including Olivia Grant (actress), Raful Gajjar (Saatchi Gallery Director), Vangelis Kassotakis (Marketing Director for Cartier) and the incredible Alexander Talbot Rice who has painted portraits for everyone including Margaret Thatcher and the most recent Pope!
Rich Simmons piece is on display until 30th June and is joined by Street Art’s most prolific artists.
There is Graffiti and then there’s Street Art. This fantastic exhibition is the latter to the highest of extremes.
It’s fair to say that Simmons now joins the Street Art elite along with Banksy and Blek Le Rat. Catch his latest piece at the Opera Gallery while you can.
Launched last Thursday by Sienna Miller, Grosvenor House, A JW Marriot Hotel is showcasing the debut of a new London Beatles exhibition - The Beatles Illuminated: The Discovered Works of Mike Mitchell.
A sale comprised of 50 lots of unpublished and never-before-seen photographs of the Beatles’ first hysteria-inducing visits to America in 1964 The exhibition is another culmination of the partnership between Christie’s and JW Marriott Hotels.
Shot in black and white by photographer Mike Mitchell when he was just 18 years old, the images have been filed away for nearly fifty years.
The collection will be open to the public, free of charge, at an exhibition at the hotel between 17th June and 25th June. The images will then be offered at auction in New York on 20th July.
In celebration of this unique occasion, Grosvenor House has created a fantastic package, a must-have experience for all Beatles fans and the perfect opportunity to visit the collection in style. Grosvenor House is offering a one night stay in a superior room with a full English breakfast. The hotel will create the perfect ambience for your stay with an iPod loaded with the best of The Beatles music installed in your room.
The package further includes complimentary entry to the Beatles Illuminated collection at Grosvenor House offering guests a rare insight into the raw energy and spirit of The Beatles during the sixties before they go on auction.
This ultimate Beatles package will be priced at from £459 per night excluding VAT, based on one nights stay. This includes one nights accommodation in a superior room, English breakfast daily for two, entrance to the ‘The Beatles Illuminated: the Discovered Works of Mike Mitchell’ and a guided Beatles Walking Tour of London. The package also includes a souvenir of the book ‘Grosvenor House: The Inheritance and The People’. The Beatles package will be available 16th-25th June 2011.
‘Sommelier’, it’s a wonderful word and so much better than ‘wine taster’, there’s something rather grand and majestic about it. And why shouldn’t there be a professional term for this wonderful craft?
Where would we be in a sea of perplexing Pinots and baffling Burgundies? We’d be risking ‘fine dining faux-pas’, marrying the wrong vintage to the wrong dish, wasting our money and disappointing our palettes.
This is precisely why Piper Heidsieck, sponsor the UK Sommelier of the Year Awards, working alongside the Academy of Food and Wine ensure that talented sommelier’s are given they recognition they deserve.
Last week saw the annual ceremony take place in a plush hotel just off Knightsbridge, where drinks industry heavies rubbed shoulders alongside young upcoming talent, each individual cherry-picked from around the UK.
A night of celebration centred around a champagne dinner. The three finalists battling for the Sommelier title had already completed an afternoon of practical tests in front of an audience including food & wine matching as well as blind tasting.
I watched as the nervous young men mounted the stage, worn out from the days trial and ready to just kick back and relax. It was a close call, the winner was Yohann Jousselin of The Vineyard Stockcross and judging by the enthusiastic cheers sounding out from the back of the room it was a much deserved reward.
The rest of us were able to tuck in to a fantastic dinner and toast each dish with a different Piper vintage.
Craft, tradition and contemporary culture were at once present, the complex blends behind the 1785 house’s champagnes seemed surprisingly at home around a table of young professionals. And no doubt for the finalists, despite their finely tuned taste buds, each glass much have seemed deliciously sweet as they drank late into the night…..
