“Rois et Reines”, Dior Joaillerie collection November 9, 2009
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“Rois et Reines”, Dior Joaillerie collection
A ring from the Rois et Reines collection
Forgotten kingdoms
With this new collection, Victoire de Castellane, Dior Joaillerie designer since 1998, proposes once again a delicious travel in her imaginary garden. Let’s meet these 10 couples of ancient kings and queens brought back to life and magnified by Dior Joaillerie’s know-how.
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Aston Martin / Jaeger LeCoultre AMVOX2 Rapide Transponder October 23, 2009
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Put yourself in James Bond’s shoes with Jaeger LeCoultre and Aston Martin
An exclusive concept
Have you ever dreamed to command your car with your watch?
It is now possible thanks to the collaboration between Jaeger LeCoultre and Aston Martin, partners since 2004.
The AMVOX2 Rapide Transponder watch is designed to control Aston Martin Rapide and DBS cars.
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Louboutin for Ladurée October 17, 2009
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Exclusive Louboutin designs for Ladurée macaron boxes
Louboutin boxes for Ladurée
A unique collaboration
So when the famous “macaron” house Ladurée decided to collaborate with the king of the red carpet Christian Louboutin, it was obvious that it would end with a serious piece of work!
Jitrois washable stretch leather jeans October 10, 2009
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It was every woman’s secret dream, Jean-Claude Jitrois has made it a reality!
Jitrois washable jeans Ad
Jitrois and leather pants
Jean-Claude Jitrois is the pioneer in leather couture and has enabled to democratize (and ease!) leather ready-to-wear in the 90s by inventing stretch leather pants. While leather has been proclaimed as the most fashionable fabric of the season, Jitrois strikes again. And it is an incredible revolution!
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Yes we KA! October 5, 2009
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Paule Ka’s handbag
Yes we KA! handbags
Last year gimmick was undoubtedly Barak Obama’s campaign motto “Yes we can”.
Thanks to Serge Cajfinger, the brilliant designer of Paule KA, this year we’d all say “Yes we KA!” with its brand new shoulder-bag.
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Galeries Lafayette’s Shoes Paradise September 30, 2009
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Having the choice between more than 12,000 shoes from A-list designer brands in one store: a shoe-addict daydream? Not anymore.
Ad campaign for the opening
Ad campaign for the opening
A brand new shoe shopping venue
Last July 15th, the famous French department store, Galeries Lafayette inaugurated the world’s largest shoe floor at its Paris flagship.
Figures are impressive: 3,000 square meters, 150 brands, 75 of which are exclusively sold at Paris Haussmann Galeries Lafayette in France, 12,000 styles from high heels to pumps, and special customer services.
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Go for a luxury stroll on www.faubourgbabylon.com July 19, 2009
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Wanna take your five star journey further?
You can either try to stop by in all the luxury capitals of the world, get lost, or worse, miss the most beautiful venues… or you can go on http://www.faubourgbabylon.com.
Read about the five star world by discovering what’s brand new and what’s making the buzz, by learning about the last trends deciphered in the insights or about the iconic masterpieces of the most famous luxury Houses.
Best shopping addresses in Paris on FaubourgBabylon.com
And you won’t miss anymore any place-to-be by reading through the hotspots lists…
On the rocks! Gems and jewels in your cocktail January 6, 2009
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Algonquin's martini
How to sip your cocktail in a five star way? Do not swallow the ring lying at the bottom of your glass!
It seems to be the new perfect mix: rare spirits on astonishing rocks.
This luxurious trend is spreading fast and it’s now possible to order jewelry cocktails all over the world.
Foxwood's Sapphire Martini
In New York, stop by the Blue Bar at the Algonquin Hotel and indulge yourself with a Martini on the Rock: vodka, dry vermouth, olives and a 1.5carat diamond (it will cost you around $10,000 depending on the diamond size and value).
Should you prefer sapphire, head for Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut and ask for a Sapphire Martini: Bombay Sapphire gin, blue curaçao, dry vermouth, blue sugar on the rim of the glass and a sterling silver pick holding a pair of 2.5carat sapphire and diamond earrings (around $3,000).
Dazzle cocktail at Harvey Nichol's
In London, you may have a diamond cocktail at the Sheraton’s bar mixing Charles Heidsieck Vintage 2001 champagne, Remy Martin Louis XIII cognac, a splash of angostura and your choice of diamond (from $5,000).
But it would be a shame to miss the world’s most expensive cocktail: the unique Dazzle cocktail available at Harvey Nichol’s bar in Manchester. For $52,000, a breathtaking blend of rosé champagne, strawberry and lychee liqueurs, lemon juice fancied by a white gold ring paved with pink tourmaline and diamond.
Since recently, Kenyan five star palace the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club offers singular olives with their martinis: a selection of precious gemstones rising up to a 3 carat tanzanite ($1,500).
In case you’re too afraid to chew a diamond, come back to traditional luxury blend with a side car cocktail from the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz Hotel in Paris: 1830 Ritz Reserve fine cognac (the world’s oldest and rarest), cointreau and a splash of lemon juice served in a simple martini glass. It’s worth any jewel on Earth…
The Ritz Side-car cocktail
Ego for Bentley: surf with Bentley September 24, 2008
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The Ego for Bentley
The Ego for Bentley is a high tech jewel mixing traditional Bentley style code and luxurious details. The unusual round and elegant design perfectly associates white gold frames engraved with your own limited edition number, delicate leather skin on the exterior surfaces with classic Bentley cross-over hand-stitching and a integrated handle with a superb Bentley knurling effect. So no need for a disgracious laptop case anymore…
Integrated handle detail
Portland Blue version
The laptop also offers the latest Microsoft Vista Ultimate software, a 160Go hard drive and a 64bit processor. Its unique desgin also proposes 12 dedicated direct access keys (wifi, bluetooth, webcam controls, media center,…) to make your life easier.
Hirst’s Diamond Skull September 15, 2008
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- Hirst’s platinium and diamond skull
Sold for $100 million last year to a private investor, this jewelry masterpiece is not less sound than Shakespeare’s.
The contemporain artist Damien Hirst is well known for his constant denunciation of the foolishness of the luxury world.
The purpose of a diamond-encrusted cast of a human skull was to demonstrate that a rich man is ready to buy anything as soon as it is encrusted by diamonds.
“For the Love of God” – the name of the skull, should have told the world about cupidity and our disrupted societies run by money. But at the end, the buyer reveals to be a consortium included Hirst’s own business manager…
The skull is nonetheless a rare jewelry masterpiece. It is a platinum cast of a 18th century human skull paved with 8,601 flawless diamonds for an astonishing total of 1,106.18 carats, in which an amazing 52-carat pear-shape pink diamond set on the forehead. Hirst also ensures that all diamonds are ethically sourced, as the teeth that are… human.
Hirst and his masterpiece
The skull is currently shown in museum exhibitions but Hirst forecasts to put it again on the market in one to three-year time. In the meanwhile, let’s quote Hirst’s mum: “For the love of God, what are you going to do next?” Oh yes, a direct auction at Sotheby’s with an estimated value of £116million starring “The Golden Calf” a 18-carat gold encrusted bull (entry price £8-12million, that is to say $14-21million)…
Perrier-Jouët By & For You August 13, 2008
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In a five star mood to give a toast? Serve your own special Perrier-Jouët cuvée!
Perrier-Jouët By & For 12-bottle case
The champagne château Perrier-Jouët is offering a limited edition of its 2000 Belle Epoque Champagne vintage rehaussed by an exclusive personnalization service: Perrier-Jouët By & For.
The idea is to propose to buyers (the offer is limited to 100 lucky people worldwide) to tailor make their own champagne cuvee on the basis of the very exclusive Belle Epoque Blanc de Blancs champagne line (2000 vintage).
Perrier-Jouët By & For Sophie Marceau
It was launch last March in Paris with a gala at the Opera Garnier attended by stars in which actresses Gong Li and Sophie Marceau who appears in the advertising.
The offer includes a visit to the Château in Epernay, France (the heart of the Champagne region) to meet with the cellar Master Hervé Deschamps. With his precious expertise, he will guide you to craft your own cuvee by adding a pinch of champagne liqueur that fits your personal taste. The 12 resulting bottles will be labeled at your name (co-signed by Deschamps) and stored for seven months in a dedicated Perrier-Jouët cellar. By then, your 12 bottles will be delivered in a luxurious white case.
The exclusive case and details of a bottle
The cost? 50,000€ ( around $75,000) for a 12-bottle case of your Champagne cuvée.
Van Cleef & Arpels anemones brooch for Perrier-Jouët
As part of your journey to the Perrier-Jouët Château, you will also have the opportunity to acquire the exclusive Van Cleef & Arpels brooch specially designed for the event. This fine jewelry artworks is inspired by the Art Nouveau’s glassworker Emile Gallé who designed in 1902 the anemones which adorn Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque bottles. Van Cleef & Arpels’ creation is a white gold anemone brooch encrusted with 450 diamonds (18.5 carats) and 259 yellow sapphires (7.5 carats). Price is at discretion…
A five star fragrance to feel N°1 August 12, 2008
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What more luxurious than a subtil and exclusive fragrance in your “sillage”? Try the world’s most exclusive (and so the most expensive) perfume: Clive Christian’s N°1.Every year, Clive Christian finds and combines the best ingredients to produce an unique perfume. The extreme scarcity of the plants used makes the fragrance unique each year: for instance, the Indian natural aged sandalwood and the pure Tahitian vanilla used to compose 2008’s N°1 fragrance could no be found anymore next year. A real exclusive perfume. A five star explosion of floral and cedarwood notes.
- Clive Christian’s N°1 perfume
The perfume is sold in a precious bottle. One ounce (around 30ml) costs $2,350 but only 1,000 of the precious liquid are released each year for the men fragrance and no more for the women version. Clive Christian’s fragrances are distributed by a limited number of prestige department stores: Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Harrods and House of Fraser in London.
The Imperial Majesty N°1 limited edition
Succumb to the fatal attraction of the Imperial Majesty limited edition. Wrapped in a luxurious Baccarat crystal bottle with a gold collar crowned by… a diamond, this fragrance has been produced to 10 one-ounce bottle in which only five released on the market to the price of $200,000. This edition was first presented in last December at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.
Otherwise, you can ask for a customized bottle as Elton John who paid $250,000 for a piano-shaped bottle…
Design your own Cameleon Boucheron ring August 11, 2008
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For a five star experience, Boucheron’s website enables you to customize as you want your engagement ring or one of the House of Boucheron’s mythic pieces (1).
Customizing Ava engagement ring
For the engagement ring, the website gives you the choice between 10 models in which you’ll find the iconic Ava rings (round or square). We can then select the type of gold and the diamond you want (based on 4C criteria to choose the quality of the stone) or your price range.
You can also customize one of the illustruous Boucheron rings (Cinna, Cameleon or Secret ring) by creating the color mix you fancy (the available gems are: diamonds emeralds, blue sapphires and rubies) by clicking and dragging gems on the ring.
The cameleon ring
The Reflet watch customization is possible by selecting the size and the metal of the case (yellow/white/pink gold, steel or mix) and then the corresponding watch strap including precious skin (alligator, ostrich…) and matching metal.
Pink gold and lapis-lazuli Cufflinks
One of the must: for your customized cufflinks, there are no more than 13 different stick choices, from standard metals to semi-precious stones (malachite, rock crystal or even coral).
When your customized creation is finished, you’ll just have to order it online following a quick three-step process (order, billing, payment). And go back to reality with your own Boucheron jewel…
(1) Boucheron website, available on www.boucheron.com
Château Margaux series August 10, 2008
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Fancy collectioning the finest wine vintages? It was once a long process to full your cellar (either a dedicated room or a simple home appliance) inducing to carefully select and find each bottle one after the other. Fortunately, the Antique Wine Company is about to radically fasten all this hard work.
Château Margaux cabinet
They’re editing unique five star cabinets resampling the very best vintages of eight Bordeaux’s chateaux: “The Grand Chateau Series” (1). The first collection available will be Château Margaux. The offer consists of an amazing five-drawer cabinet topped with a wooden replica of the Château. Created by David Linley (nephew to Queen Elizabeth II), the cabinet made from precious wood (sycamore, burr ash and rosewood) cradles 18 bottles from the finest Château Margaux’s vintages from the exceptional 1900’s to 2005’s.
It even comprises secret compartments (for instance, there’s a secret drawer under the fore steps of the château). The cabinet will perfectly fit in your dining room: 1.42m high for 69cm wide and 55cm deep.
Château Margaux's actual facade
Linley's Château Margaux mock-up
Over the forthcoming three years, you will have the opportunity to complete your collection as the Antique Wine Company in partnership with Viscount Linley announces the edition of such cabinets for seven more Bordeaux’s Grand Châteaux: Château Cheval Blanc, Chateau Haut Brion, Château Lafite, Château Latour, Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Petrus and Château d’Yquem.
The cost: £195,000 (around $390,000) for each cabinet. But for each series, only five exemplaries will be produced.
(1) The Antique Wine Company website, available on www.antique-wine.com, details on the Grand Chateau Series on http://grand-chateau-series.antique-wine.com/series.php
Dior Phone August 8, 2008
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Of course, you can invest in a Vertu phone but we all agree it’s more show-off than fashion. Alternatively, you can also buy one of the co-branded phones that have flown on the cell phone market for a while (Prada phone by LG, Giorgio Armani by Samsung, Dolce&Gabbana by Motorola, Lolita Lempicka by Samsung…) but it’s really cheap. Forget about that, actually there’s a five star option: stop by a Dior’s boutique and get a Dior phone!
The Dior Black Diamond phone
Diamond details
You have the choice between two models : a standard version featuring a crystal sapphire case and an exclusive version, encrusted of 640 diamonds (for a total of 3,251 carats) on the case, the hinge and the touchpad rehaussed by an amazing 5branch star in the middle.
"My Dior" device
The Dior menu
The must? The Dior menu and the uncomparable dialing tones: mix of Christian Dior’s famous sentences on lounge music background.
The price of such a five star phone? 3500€ (around $4,700) for the standard version, up to 18000€ ($27,000) for the diamond version delivered with its own case made of… crocodile skin!
Chanel’s diamond alligator bag August 7, 2008
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- Chanel Diamond Alligator Handbag
The “Diamond Forever” handbag, presented by Forbes magazine on top of the list of the world’s most extravagant handbags (1) is a must have in the five star luxury world!
The concept : an ultimate luxurious version of the mythic Classic shoulder bag combining rare skin (alligator skin, one of the world’s rarest and most expensive skins) and a five star white gold clasp encrusted in 334 diamonds for an astonishing total of 3.56 carats.
The cost : 189 933€ (around $300,000)… that makes it the world’s most expensive handbag.
From the catwalk to charities:
Presented first on the Chanel Cruise 08 show (05/18/07), only 13 of this premium has reached the market. Madonna’s choice to carry the black version of the bag with a Haute Couture Chanel’s dress at Cannes this year and to auction it (with its content!) at the annual amfAR Cinema Against AIDS event makes the Diamond Forever become an icon. It sold for £471,000, 1.5 time more than George Clooney’s kiss on auction last year but as Madonna said : “That’s cheap. Everyone’s kissed George Clooney” whereas carrying a diamond alligator bag…
The Diamond Forever on Chanel Cruise catwalk
Madonna presenting the bag at the amFAR auction
(1) Forbes World’s most extravagant handbags, Hitha Prabhakar, 08/03/07, available on http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/26/handbags-extravagant-expensive-forbeslife-cx_hp_0327handbags.html
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