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Score Tory Burch Outfits to Wear on Your One&Only Palmilla Vacay

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Km. 7.5, San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, 23400

| June 25, 2009 at 9:18 AM | 0 Comments

When Stella went to go get her groove back, she jetted to a luxe-ish resort and dressed herself in cute linen-y, breezy outfits to look the part of upscale vacationer without a care in the world, looking gorgeous effortlessly. And while Stella went to go grab her lost groove in Montego Bay, we'd be down for hitting up a resort in North America — and One&Only Palmilla in Los Cabos appeals to the Stella in us.

Here's why: 'cause we could win ourselves a Tory Burch wardrobe to wear while we're down there. Oh, and we can win a trip down there for free along with the Tory duds.

The deal: Every day, the resort is giving away a Tory Burch Summer Essential Kit with a beach towel, a cosmetics bag, a tote bag and flip flops; you can enter to win one of them every day until July 15th. You can enter that little giveaway here.

And when you enter to win the kit, you're automatically entered to win the Grand Prize: a $1200 Tory Burch Shopping Spree (which, let's be real, will probably only stretch as far as 2 or 3 outfits) and a Four-Night stay at the One&Only Palmilla — which includes roundtrip airfare for two, dinner for two at hotel's new Market by Jean-Georges and two massages during your stay.

Or you could just take the trip and gift the wardrobe money to us. We could use some new pairs of ballet flats and some breezy tunics.

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Is Missoni Adding Manchester To Their List of Upcoming Hotels?

| June 15, 2009 at 2:56 PM | 0 Comments

We're now two weeks into the opening of the first of the Missoni Hotels in Edinburgh, Scotland, and already more news of future destinations have swamped us with surprise.

There's big plans in the works for this new fashion line of hotels; the Missoni Kuwait Hotel comes in early fall, followed by more hotels in South Africa and Oman, of all places. The latter will be a beachfront resort even!

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Hotel Missoni Goes For South Africa Next

| June 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM | 0 Comments

Hotel Missoni wastes no time. On the crest of the wave of hype surrounding the very first Missoni Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland (it opened yesterday!), Rezidor Hotels has just announced that Missoni will bring its mutilcolored, dreamy lodging designs to Cape Town, South Africa in 2010.

Hotel Missoni Edinburgh opened its doors amidst a technicolored flurry of publicity, and as we wait on Missoni's second lodging outpost to open its doors next in Kuwait this fall followed by an Oman location later on, we've apparently got a fourth location to look forward to. The 157-room Hotel Missoni Cape Town will be, supposedly, opening "just in time" for the FIFA World Cup in 2010 "in the heart" of Cape Town — complete with a Missoni Cucina restaurant, a bar, a spa and a rooftop terrace "with a cantilevered swimming pool and views of Table Mountain."

No word on when the Missoni brand is planning on crossing over into the ol' US of A, but we're going to go ahead and assume it won't be for a good long while if Rezidor's got its eyes fixed on spots like Edinburgh, Kuwait and Cape Town — but we'll keep you posted; you can always somehow procure yourself one of those fly kilty-apron things and wear it around your house to achieve a similar effect.

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Hotel Missoni Opens Today, But Why In Edinburgh?

| June 8, 2009 at 1:17 PM | 0 Comments

Finally, we get another picture (the restaurant) from the interior of the Hotel Missoni which opened today in Edinburgh, Scotland. You'd think that during their recent visit to the property, the Guardian UK would have taken a few more shots, but instead they focused their energies on asking Missoni matriarch Rosita her reasons for choosing Edinburgh for the first hotel of her brand. Her response, after citing comfort over pretentiousness, is even-handed:

I admit that in the rain, Scotland can seem cold and dark and terrible, but in the sun you see its true beauty. I first came here 30 years ago for the festival, and went walking, out through the highlands, and I remember the heather and land - the colours were magnificent. Edinburgh is severe but very stylish and I tried to reflect that in the designs.

It probably also worked out in favor of the city that it's not already crowded with boutique or fashion hotels like in Milan; the Missoni Hotel will become the spot. That is, if brunching Scots can handle those blue walls and bright patterns pictured above after a night out on the town.

[Photo: Richard Davies/PR]

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Hotel Missoni Edinburgh Now Open to Missonis; Opens to Public Next Week

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, EH1 1AD

| June 4, 2009 at 8:57 AM | 0 Comments

Where can we score a Missoni kilt for ourselves? Oh yes, perhaps at the almost-open Hotel Missoni Edinburgh! This first entry into what will be a series of Missoni Hotels—Kuwait's coming in fall—is prepping their Italian espresso machines and straightening out the creases in the striped bedsheets with only a few days until their June 8 opening to guests.

This past weekend however, the Missoni family themselves stopped in to survey how their fashion brand has translated into a physical hotel property. As you can see in the picture above, Scottish hospitality showed in spades as the family was welcomed by Missoni kilt-wearing waiters from the Cucina Missoni restaurant as well as a traditional bagpipe player.

Rooms for this month are looking quite within range as well—$283 for a regular room, or $386 for deluxe room with breakfast. If you aren't anywhere near Scotland this summer, you can bet that all the big glossy interior design publications will be flashbulbing the heck out of the hotel later this month. After all, it's Missoni from top to bottom and that means reconciling crazy patterns and colors with the desire to create the restful environment of a hotel.

[Photo: Hotel Missoni Edinburgh]

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Chanel Commandeers the Westins of Venice for a Fashion Show

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: San Marco 2159, Venice, Italy, 30124

| May 15, 2009 at 9:01 AM | 1 Comment

Yesterday in Venice, on the sands of the beach at the Lido Westin Excelsior Hotel to be more exact, Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld debuted his Cruise collection for the French fashion house.

For something so elaborate as a location-specific runway show, Chanel flies in the most important magazine editors, stylist and international press, and puts them up in the best hotel rooms in the city as part of the whole spectacle. Although they took over the Excelsior's beach for the actual show, we learned from Grazia's blog that the guests were instead bedding down back on San Marco, in the Westin Europa & Regina.

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Will Tommy Hilfiger Open the Next Line of Fashion Hotels?

| May 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM | 0 Comments


An example of Hilfiger bedding, via Macy's.

While we were engaging in our usual thorough research of Jennifer Aniston's whereabouts (which is, typically, not too hard considering she usually goes to, like, three places ever), we came across a very special little blurb in WWD:

Tommy Hilfiger...[is] in the "conceptual" stage of building his own brand of hotels. "We like America but we have great popularity all over the world," he said at the after-party at Table 8 in the Cooper Square Hotel. "I think we could put a hotel up in just about any major city."

Huh. You think? Not to be wet blankets or anything, but we're not so sure about that — like, can anyone build a hotel in any major city right now? And is Tommy Hilfiger super popular? And what ever happened to his daughter from that short-lived MTV reality show Rich Girls?

Who knows; maybe it will be the next new and awesome fashion hotel. But when we think of Tommy Hilfiger, we sort of think of red, white and blue — so if, like, a patriotic hotel is your thang, maybe you'll dig whatever he's got in the works right now. Meanwhile, the preppy Chuck-Bass-lovers in us think it's hot time Ralph Lauren launched a hotel brand, no?

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Get Psyched for the Debut of Missoni Hotels in June...in Scotland

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH1 1AD

| May 6, 2009 at 8:46 AM | 0 Comments

Search the back of your closet for that Missoni piece you totally splurged on at a sale last year, because the first Missoni Hotels property is on the brink of throwing open its brightly-patterned doors in Edinburgh, Scotland.

It'll be all the colors and patterns your weary tourist eyes can handle in June, when the hotel opens and we finally get to see more than renderings of what looks to be a vibrant Italian fashion fantasyland plopped into Scotland.

The opening itself will be quite an imported spectacle, with Rosita Missoni herself cutting the ribbon to the 136-room property on the Scottish capital's historic Royal Mile. Not to mention that some of the furnishings are from her own home, and a majority of the rest are previews of the latest Missoni home lines, debuting at the hotel first.

So what's the nightly damage to your credit card for a room alone? A reasonable $268, considering that includes WiFi, laundering of 2 items of clothing, premium movies and a newspaper in the world's newest fashion hotel. Add another $22 if you'd like a Missoni breakfast delivered to your Missoni linen-otfitted bed. Here's hoping that even the room service features Missoni-branded toast and pats of butter.

[Photo: Hotel Missoni]

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Buy Some Louboutin Shoes and Save an Elephant With Four Seasons

| May 5, 2009 at 9:11 AM | 0 Comments

Famous sexy shoe designer Christian Louboutin has dabbled with hotel partnerships before, making a One & Only Resorts line of sandals for One & Only Resorts, which we totally understand as well as covet. Happily, he's back at it again, but this time teaming up with Four Seasons to create an extremely limited-edition colorway of a stiletto sandal.

The "Rodita" sandal, a fashionista favorite of Christian's Spring 2008 line, has returned in hot pink specifically for the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle in Thailand, with all proceeds going to the GTAEF charity (Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation). Yes that's right: sales from the $895 shoes are going to save elephants from the streets in Thailand, but there's only 50 pairs of the hot numbers to sell.

They're real showstoppers, but at $895 for the togs alone, we're wondering exactly how much it costs to stay at the Four Seasons Tented Camp itself? It's just as we expected: plan to shell out 70,200 THB ($1,995) for a one-night, all-inclusive stay at the luxury retreat. Thanks, but we think we'll just take the Louboutins as consolation. For those interested, the 50 pairs are only available for purchase on FootCandyShoes.com until they run out forever.

[Photos: Four Seasons]

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Hotel Ritz in Paris Kicks Up Its Heels With High Fashion

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 15 Place Vendome, Paris, France, 75041

| May 1, 2009 at 11:51 AM | 1 Comment

More often than not, the lives of the fabulously fashionable and fashionably fabulous intersect with hotel lobbies and bars, giving us regular folk a glimpse into their gilded partying. The latest raucous affair went down this week in the bar of The Ritz in Paris, when the "Eroticism" issue of Acne Paper Magazine was celebrated with burlesque performers, of course, and plenty of flashbulbs.

The big news is not so much the party, but rather what will come of it; during the fete, designer Alber Elbaz of French luxury label Lanvin photographed instead of drank and schmoozed, as he was shooting for his next menswear campaign.

This is reminiscent of the time that Jimmy Choo's ads were all done at The Plaza. Perhaps next time we accidentally wander into the midst of a hotel party, which we've totally done before, we'll end up appearing in a Vogue ad spread; probably not, but a girl can dream.

[Photo: Olivier Zahm]

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Vanity Fair Visits the Showers of the Uxua Casa Hotel

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 10 Rue de Parque, Trancoso, Brazil

| April 20, 2009 at 1:13 PM | 1 Comment

Heading down to the Bahia region of Brazil, Vanity Fair did us a favor by checking into the new and rustic Uxua Casa Hotel, also known as the pet project of Diesel's creative director, Wilbert Das. Surprisingly, they don't gloss over the fact that at $395–$1,095 per night, staying at the Uxua is the "fat wallet" kind of roughing it, but worth it if you want to immerse yourself in Bahian culture and craft.

When it comes to his work at Diesel, Wilbert must focus his creativity on clothing and concentrate on what's in current fashion, but with the Uxua, he had the freedom to play with interior design and utilize local woodworkers to elevate his hotel above "Design Hotel" status. Vanity Fair is particularly head-over-heels for the handmade furniture and exhibitionist showers. Their take:

One thing that's modern about the hotel, he says, is the way that local craftsmanship became amplified and reinterpreted. In several guesthouses, for example, craftspeople added plumbing to wooden beams, creating unusual showers. ("It's incredibly strange to see the water just flowing out of the construction of the building," Das says.) They carved fallen trees into rough-edged sinks and benches and turned an erect tree trunk into a huge outdoor shower. In the garden, a self-taught mosaicist took on the challenge of a 40,000-pebble pool.

Undoubtedly a retreat for the rich and reclusive who fancy a bit of slumming with their caipirinhas, the Uxua sounds like heaven. Like heaven, it is also only within reach of those who enjoy paying through the nose for their indulgences (Catholic joke!).

[Photo: Vanity Fair]

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St. Regis San Francisco Will Revamp Your Mom's Wardrobe

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 125 3rd St [map], San Francisco, SF, United States, 94103

| April 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM | 0 Comments

Don't know what to get your mom for Mother's Day? How about a long weekend at the St. Regis San Francisco and a personal shopping appointment with fashion designer Julie Chaiken through their Aficionado program? Only available on May 8 and 9, which is perfect timing for compiling a summer wardrobe, guests will attend an evening cocktail reception before awakening to breakfast with Chaiken's team on Saturday at her design studio.

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