At Chenot Palace Gabala, a luxury retreat, we brave hunger pangs, cryotherapy, and a mud bath on a rejuvenative journey

At Chenot Palace Gabala, a luxury retreat, we brave hunger pangs, cryotherapy, and a mud bath on a rejuvenative journey

Treatment room at the retreat | Photo Credit: Alex Teuscher After finishing a small portion of mixed fruit puree in under three minutes, I wait for breakfast. As it turns out, that was breakfast. A cup of piping hot herbal tea marks the end of the first meal of the day. Tightly wrapping my bath […]

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Luxury serviced apartments come calling

Luxury serviced apartments come calling

The trend of serviced apartments that started more than a decade-and-a-half ago in Chennai has been growing at 10-15% each year. Business executives who come from around the world on short-term assignments, tourists visiting hospitals for long-term procedures along with family, NRIs coming during year-end for the music festival season, and students from foreign universities […]

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Gauri Khan shares designs secrets from her latest project, the Falguni Shane Peacock store in Kolkata 

Gauri Khan shares designs secrets from her latest project, the Falguni Shane Peacock store in Kolkata 

Gauri Khan (centre) with Shane and Falguni | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For Gauri Khan, the little details matter. Which is probably why, two white urns, with 3D peacock motifs, are the source of much discussion at the Falguni Shane Peacock showroom in Kolkata. Gauri who has done the interiors for three of the FSP […]

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CEO of Bulgari Jean-Cristophe Babin on the brand’s new launches and its India plans

CEO of Bulgari Jean-Cristophe Babin on the brand’s new launches and its India plans

Jean-Cristophe Babin | Photo Credit: Gabriel de la Chapelle Jean-Cristophe Babin, CEO of Bulgari, is a busy man. He has travelled quite a distance with the brand this year, with launches at the LVMH Watch Week Singapore in January and Watches and Wonders in March. He is set to announce more novelties at the Geneva […]

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Sustainable handbag label Behno comes to India with Katrina Kaif as an investor

Sustainable handbag label Behno comes to India with Katrina Kaif as an investor

Katrina Kaif, ambassador and investor with Behno For every tie, knot and technique used in its bags, Behno has a story. The international handbag label headquartered in New York — with manufacturing units across India — had its homecoming recently, as Shivam Punjya, its founder, launched retail operations in India. Lodged within Behno’s signature knots are […]

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Hermès Beauty comes to India with Rouge Hermès, featuring 24 shades of lipsticks

Hermès Beauty comes to India with Rouge Hermès, featuring 24 shades of lipsticks

A snapshot of the lipsticks | Photo Credit: Joshua Navalkar The setting is the Mumbai Hermès store. Though it is a weekday afternoon, energy levels are high and the space is bright with colour. An artist paints renditions of attending guests’ lips on a card, as a very personalised take-home present, while assembled journalists wait for […]

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A look at couture brands at recently-opened The Galleries at 32nd in Gurgaon

A look at couture brands at recently-opened The Galleries at 32nd in Gurgaon

An outfit by Aroka | Photo Credit: Angus Guite A couple of years ago, a real-estate business family (we will call them the Sharmas) chanced upon a barren land in Gurgaon, precisely 32 kilometres away from central Delhi. After investing in commercial, luxury residential, microbreweries, hospitality, and co-working spaces for decades, the idea of an […]

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