In the world of cool, only the Oscars can vie with the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival. Since 1956, Cannes’ Croisette has been host to legendary celebrity and mayhem. I should know: I’ve been clawing my way down that 2 km stretch of over-kerbed concrete for more than a decade, desperately fighting the crowds to…
Have you been here before? OK, can I explain the concept for you?’ How I haven’t suddenly and irreversibly turned into Heath Ledger’s Joker after hearing those words remains inexplicable. It is the tip of a deeply cynical iceberg – one of the principal problems with eating out in London. Give yourself a moment to…
We hooked up with Vice President Selina Meyer’s deputy Director of Communications; the (mostly) unflappable Dan ‘The Man’ Egan, to tell us about the D.C. lifestyle. Here, for true #DanFans, are Mr Egan’s top pointers for getting to the top… 1. NYU. Nobody cares where you went to college. Unless you went to NYU. I…
Los Angeles, mid-July: A baking sun is bright overhead and Reid Scott is standing on the rooftop of The London Hotel, suited and booted. It’s hot-as-hell but after three seasons in Veep, he should be used wearing the tailored threads under a hot glaring spotlight. Anyway, he’ll have to suit up again soon because HBO…
It’s with great sadness that we heard in our office of the death today of the great publisher Felix Dennis. Sadness? Not sure what Felix would have made of that. He didn’t seem to have any time in his day for self-pity or regret. Back in 2011 he was generous enough to give Lusso’s Chris West and…
Perched 154 feet in the sky above Tech City, Penthouse 127 is the best spot to enjoy epic 360-degree views of London’s coolest quarter. Get in the Cloud. Literally. The Fendi- and Hermes-inspired home, on the market at £4.75m, has gone big on luxury brands, with Interior designer Ida Sophie Fabricius (of Studio55) festooning it with the…
There are many things that are better in America than in Britain: burritos, cheerleaders, Austrian movie stars, Real Housewives. But one of the most overlooked areas in which our cousins across the Atlantic excel at is drinking. No, hear me out. We may think we have the market licked with our real ales and WKD…
Journalism was never what I wanted to do. That’s what I told the interviewing professor on the renowned journalism graduate course, on being offered one of forty places out of thousands of applicants. ‘I’m only here because I’m constantly told that no one leaves school to become a novelist,’ I told him crossly. I was…
It’s not your daughters you need to lock up. It’s your coronas. Luckily, Dunhill of London are offering full bed and board. If there’s anything that makes one long for the less health conscious days of yore, it’s the sight of people (read: mainly chaps) smoking quality cigars outdoors, in the public arena. Whether it’s…
A City fish restaurant that specialises in honest food, clear-headed surroundings and transparent prices? It’ll never catch on!! I thang yew… I haven’t seen Wolf of Wall Street. I might get round to it, but don’t hold your breath. I’ve read the glowing reviews of Martin Scorsese’s three-hour love letter to Mamon. I’ve absorbed the…