If you’re seeking sunshine, shopping and solace, Las Vegas is buzzing with chic boutiques, spas and plenty of attractions to rival many other cities. Walking down the Strip, with the grand hotels and glittering casinos built to resemble castles, treasure islands and entire cities, is exhilarating. In one afternoon, you can have breakfast in Paris, tuck into a canal-side lunch in Venice and stop for a roller-coaster ride in New York on the way....
With the music festival season getting into full swing, take inspiration from the breezy, laid-back west-coast look. Follow the simple philosophy of style and comfort with casual-chic footwear that gives back. The socially-conscious fashion brand TOMS Shoes has become synonymous with Californian cool....
Amid the ultra-chic international boutiques of Old Bond Street in London’s Mayfair, Asprey, with its regal crests and listed façade, stands out. The classically British luxury-goods house, best known for its fine jewellery, is one of the world’s prestigious names and a 229-year-old London institution. It is the place the former poet laureate, John Betjeman, whose father once supplied it with walnutand-ebony cigar boxes, vividly described as “a world of shining showrooms full of secret drawers and Maharajahs’ dressing cases”....