I“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”
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YASMIN MILLS ‘‘A woman on an eco mission’’ to create a circular lifestyle brand that is as ethical and sustainable as well as glamorous and fun.
And REENA HAMMER in ''The White House dream that became a beauty and wellness haven''
The ever youthful and beautiful RUBY HAMMER MBE takes us through her favourite beauty solutions to feel good inside and out.
We also have the inspiring TAMARA BECKWITH VERONI who is on a mission to make us aware of our bodies and take care of it with “The Lady Garden Foundation”
The talented photographer KATE MARTIN shot our women's suit and diamond story. “Powerful ultimate effortless chic”
Marcella Martinellil, co owner and luxury editor of MiliOnAir Magazine, shares her ultimate indulgences.
Foundation Eyes: Kryolan Aqua colour in TK2 with brow gel Cheeks Lip’n cheek cream in ‘Hibiscus’ Lips: LF401 with clear gloss Nails: ZOYA in Robyn & Cecila Raiana-Lenis Model Management
Opposite page Lurex Peacock Turban Twist band by Julia Clancey avail at Harrods Tiger ring £50 And Mary, Cicada ring £155 Ciner NYC Jewellery & Vintage necklace from @thehirstcollection
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Foundation Eyes: Experimental Artistry Palette using ‘Expression’ ‘Bouffe’ and ‘Melodrama’ Cheeks: ‘Hussy’ Illuminator: Nude Collection Beyond powder in ‘Dare’ Lips: Antimatter Amplifier & Legend with gloss in Glaze’ Nails: ZOYA in Cam Madi -Lenis Model Management
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Lupe Castro of Fashion Space World is a recognisable and distinctive fashion icon, who is passionate about discovering the next generation of designer and supporting breakthrough talent, something that she has become renowned for all over the world. Lupe supports the ethical side of the fashion industry and her love of vintage and eclectic fashions defines her personal dress sense: beautifully quirky and original.
Her knowledge and passion for the industry and charismatic personality means she is regularly invited to attend and speak at events around the world. Lupe established her indubitable reputation in the industry as one of the first digital influencers, blogging under the alias of Ms Castro Rides, as well as writing features for publications across the globe. Owning one of the world’s most coveted vintage collections, Lupe is now leading a movement which is both artistic and social, bringing together music, art and fashion with the intention of promoting a new style of tourism and culture. Lupe has created a unique shop experience through her brand Fashion Space World, in which she showcases a curated range of her favourite pieces from emerging, sustainable and vintage brands. Follow Lupe and her international adventures on her personal account @mscastrorides
Svetlana (Lana) Knezevic is a contributing editor to international top title magazines (Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar) around the world. She has published articles on fashion, art and popular culture on every continent as well as in several languages. Alongside her writing, Lana is recognised for her unique talent for connecting genuine industry experts across the globe to professionalise the industry. She is passionate about the real purpose of fashion weeks - which goes beyond the front row - instead working on building brands for high-level international recognition. Lana not only attends International fashion weeks, she also consults with many to help them develop beneficial relationships for their brands with press and buyers. @lanaknez
completely unnecessary.”Are there any upcoming British designers he particularly rates? “At the moment, not really,” he says with characteristic candour. “There’s nobody that consistent with a signature. I think that’s why we’ve still got all the old labels – Helmut Lang is coming back because they have a certain signature. I don’t know if it’s a fault of the fashion colleges, saying to these designers: ‘
You’ve got to be Alexander McQueen’. There’s been one Alexander McQueen in the past 30 years. They do train designers in that sort of McQueen/ Vivienne Westwood style. I think that’s what they think British design is about but the reality is, who else has come up between them?”
While Jacques has always steered clear of slavishly following trends and tends to revisit old classics, such as the dazzling red cape in the current collection which first made an appearance 20 years ago, this doesn’t mean the Azagury brand, renowned for its impeccable fit and cut, has remained static. “We always have something new for the season trend-wise,” he points out. “But because we don’t do a catwalk show, we don’t have to make them quite so ridiculous. We are not after that front page the next morning. They are trend driven but wearable; really, what women want.”
In response to customer demand, Jacques has introduced Azagury Finds, a collection of curated pieces selected by him and Solange and priced between £75 and £390. The range, which includes sequinned hoodies, tulle skirts and cashmere sweaters and is aimed at a younger market, is regularly refreshed with brother and sister making buying trips to Paris every six weeks or so. “We just pick pieces we like and that we think will fit into our store,” says Jacques. “We don’t want what Harvey Nichols or Harrods have, because what’s the point? We try to find new things, and when we come back we think ‘Oh my God’, everything goes with everything. Customers who come in for fittings will pick up a few pieces as well, either for holidays or casual parties.”
He has also introduced a capsule wedding collection, which makes perfect sense considering he’s often asked to dress brides and their mothers.
“With loyal customers, I can’t say no, I have to do it,” he explains. “Now we’ve done a range of six dresses, which we can customise. I enjoy doing them but we don’t make hundreds, for sure!”
While the current industry buzzword is “sustainability”,
Just getting more wonderful Ladies to learn about their bodies with our Lady Garden Foundation - creating more awareness and hopefully raising lots more money for the wonderful Doctor’s we support at The Royal Marsden.
“I would! I think everyone should be an eco-activist to a degree. We all have to look after this planet for our children; if we become complacent, none of this is going to work. Being an activist doesn’t need to be dirty word - it just means being active in doing something positive, whether recycling at home or paying more attention to which products you buy. You don’t have to be out there demonstrating, although I’ll happily take part in an environmental rally - I love that!”
Do you think attitudes are changing?
“People’s attitudes are incredibly positive now and there’s definitely more awareness, particularly among the Greta Thunberg generation. The plus side of social media is that companies can be called out and there’s nowhere for them to hide. As an information spreader, social media can have a really positive effect and educate people without being elitist. People shouldn’t be intimidated. It’s hard to believe nowadays that everyone used to smoke on planes. We’ll look back at this time and say, ‘Oh my God, why did we use so much plastic?’”
How do you go about making your events fully sustainable?
“I work with only the most sustainable and ethical professionals in all areas of entertaining, from florists to chefs, who are mindful of not creating waste or using unnecessary plastic. All wine and food are organic and vegetarian. We use only up-cycled, vintage or ethically-produced items, ranging from vintage tables, chairs and plates to handmade table linen and napkins, recycled wine glasses and coconut speakers. We also use eco couriers and electric or pedal-powered transport, which helps clients reduce their carbon footprint and creates an all-round greener event.”
How difficult is it to source ethically and sustainably produced food and products?
“Food is easier to source. You just have to be thorough. It involves trial and error, checking producers, visiting suppliers and factories, whether for pickles or a piece of fabric, and doing your homework. It’s about research, research, research.''
Tell us about your homeware brand?
“Although I love fashion, I decided to focus on eco-lux ethical homeware because that’s the gap in the market. We sell affordable, well designed, responsibly made and vintage homeware. Our Ruby collection of napkins, tablecloths and cushions are made with vintage and upcycled silk saris and our glassware is all recycled or vintage as are our table lamps. The message is that you don’t have to buy everything new; buy things that are made to last. I also want our products to be accessible and for people to realise you can have green glamour - you don’t have to have a style bypass.”
How have your daughters influenced you?
“They are definitely my conscience. Their generation is much more aware and prepared to take action. They’ve always bought cruelty-free makeup and don’t buy fast fashion anymore. They’d much rather get their clothes from charity shops or from some of the amazing young brands that are coming up. It’s more tasteful to buy from charity shops anyway; it’s so outdated to buy disposable fashion. It’s better to save up for one bespoke piece than buy 40 pieces of rubbish that will end up in landfill.”
There is always a story behind the brand. What inspired you to start Ancient + Brave? Where does the name come from?
After a career as a media lawyer working on many TV programs (from reality to documentaries) it felt like time for a change which coincided with my husband and I moving to Sussex. We started a tea company called Prince & Sons tea which can be found at hotels such as The Newt and The Pig and we now export around the world - this started my passion for products, brand and formulation. Products should provide balance - from the ritual of opening beautiful recyclable packaging, to enjoying amazing ingredients which are not only good for you but taste delicious as well.
As I learnt more about nutrition I realised that there is a compromise with many of the wellness blends and protein powders found on the market - many are in plastic containers and you really need to take as a shot or in a smoothie to hide their challenging taste. We knew we could offer something different and do it better. Ancient + Brave is designed to make lifestyle and wellness strategies, such as fat loss, exercise and intermittent fasting, simple and effective.
Our mission is to position Ancient + Brave at the forefront of nutrition, wellbeing and longevity.
Our expert clinical range will deliver targeted benefits in relation to specific health conditions and have a positive impact on quality of life. We deliver easy to use products, which fit with a busy lifestyle and help achieve wellbeing objectives. Our ethos is focused on making ourselves and our earth better with sustainability, purity and potency at its heart. The name of Ancient + Brave derives from a concept of ancient old meets brand new. So taking ancient knowledge in terms of diet and lifestyle and pairing that with brave innovation to create a new generation of wellness products.
We have combined our expertise in nutrition and formulation to create a new generation of wellness products to enhance brain, body and beauty. We work with amazing ingredients such as collagen, MCT, proteins, adaptogens and beautiful nutrient rich botanicals. We have just launched our collection of vegan Collagyn which are build and protect collagen formulas - Naked for body, Inspired for brain and Radiant for beauty.
We embrace ancestral lifestyle strategies to help our community thrive in a modern world. Our connection to our community is wider than just our products and through our story we promote concepts based on rewilding. Ideas that are open to everyone, which restore us to our natural rhythms and connect us to our natural environment – such as wild foods, walking barefoot,
plant based keto diets and 5:2 diet. But even if you are not following a diet or exercise plan and just want to have a nutritious hot drink, feel fuller for longer or have options if you hit an afternoon slump then our products are designed to work for you.
I am a huge morning person and love to wake before anyone else and enjoy the peace of the house accompanied of course by a cup of Ancient + Brave's Cacao + Collagen or our new Inspired Collagyn to get my brain engaged for the day ahead. I am still in recovery from a skiing injury to my knee so strengthening and exercise is more important than ever and I feel unbalanced until I have done some form of exercise or walked the dogs (albeit slowly!) first thing.
My favourite range of skincare products are by a brand called Amly - they have a range of range of beautiful natural skincare products using some incredible natural skincare products using some incredible ingredients (www. amlybotanicals.co.uk). My morning routine of cleaning my face (Amly Deep Reveal is fantastic) and hydrating is my total ritual and whilst I don't have a lot of time for itits part of my routine to get ready for the day.
- when an original is copied what is lost or added in translation becomes the norm and as such becomes the blue print for another slightly different and at times equally iconic style. Ipso facto what is a desert boot if not a sloppily constructed chukka. And it was such an article that Nathan Clark (of the famed Quaker Somerset shoemakers, C+ J Clarke) brought back from Burma where he’d been stationed with the West African Brigade in the late forties. Consequently, without a bye your leave he set about perfecting the Clark’s Desert Boot desert boot . In 1950 Nathan unveiled them at the Chicago shoe fair and sales went through the roof rocketed. Of course the boot ticked all the relevant boxes for ‘hep’ in the early fifties. Their soft no nonsense structure was perfectly aligned with the free thinking jazz ideology of the day and paired with jeans and sweatshirt s became, along with open toed sandals and loafers, the chosen footwear for jazzers, beat poets and long hairs alike such as Jack Kerouac and his hero Neal Cassady..Over in the UK middle class trad jazzers, skiffle kids and later beatniks - who added the obligatory Aran jumper, beard and duffle coat - initially championed the boot. They met in the 2i’s coffee bar in Old Compton Street and The Cat’s Whisker’ at the corner of Kingly Street and Beak Street, Soho and marched in their desert boots to Aldermaston holding their Ban The Bomb banners high.
as the death knell for any street wear but not so much as its approbation by Marks and Spencer’s who, in 1970 ,copied Clarks Desert Boot at 55 shillings a pair as part of a revamp of their men's fashion department teaming the once proud boot with a navy blazer, Scottish tweed trousers, a button down shirt and a silk paisley scarf. No longer the hep item it once was it was now the chosen shoe of geography teachers, rollup smoking hippy soundmen and middle class dads who wanted to get down with the younger generation. And so the shoe continued as a laughing stock .No one wanted them. They were a pariah. That is until the film Quadrophenia came along in 1979 that, riding on the wave of the new mod revival, gave the shoe yet another lease of life. Subsequently championed by the likes of Paul Weller they at this point well and truly attained the level of unimpeachable classic UK street wear – an accolade awarded only to the likes of the Fred Perry, the Barracuda G9, the Levis 501 and the Doc Marten.
Consequently, when any band or youth movement gleans any influence from Mod culture out comes the desert boot. Oasis, again drawing on the sixties, influenced yet another generation of popsters who were mad for the article , Damon Albarn still wears them while the Arctic Monkeys are often seen padding around West London in said footwear. Today desert boots are seen to be back in vogue and are coming from all corners and all manufacturers but , for my money, there’s only Clarks (particularly the Tobacco Suede) Ask The Missus at Office and Roamers for the more casual minded while Church’s Ryder III Brown Suede (as worn by Bond in Quantum of Solace) and John White are for those who want something a little more sturdy. Best consign the likes of Dry Bones, Mantaray and Skechers to the bin say I.
But the question that often provokes heated debate is what do you wear the desert boot with? “Only wear desert boots with jeans or cord (the latter rarely), you could probably wear 'em with sta-prest - personally we wouldn’t,” says the Brit website Mod Culture. “But a suit and desert boots is a big no-no! “ You have been warned.
Tpress and stylists and through a trunk show in a Melrose Avenue boutique. It was a huge success, so they are already organising their next LA trip Whilst the industry talks constantly about experiential brands – Teresa Helbig is living it. Her passion, creativity and character live in every garment she produces. The collection was filled with exquisiteness, far removed from the ordinary or mass produced. Each collection draws you in, making you want to be a Helbig woman. Teresa creates and manufactures all her garments in her atelier in Barcelona and she follows the creative process in minute detail from start to finish. She adores experimenting with the best fabrics, combining silk, tulle, gemstone embroidery and crochet. To see the images or the pieces on the catwalk they look divine, but when you get up close in real time and touch the pieces the detailing is incredible. Teresa Helbig is committed to sustainability and slow fashion – achieving it through limiting their stock and working to measure and to order. Working towards zero waste, the brand –tracks where all fabrics come from and each garment is created to last a lifetime and be passed on through the generation The AW2020 collection Opium, was about contradiction, contrast and cultural mixture with a nod at the disorderly, decadent, romantic and dangerous languor of those who play with fire. The brand explains that we can find a fusion between British rigidity and Eastern mystery, the English countryside and Chinese mashes, tartan and silk, a collision of two contrasting worlds with extremely refined aesthetics at war over an addictive drug, opium. The collection iconic items are poppy red, black lacquer, imperial gold, embroidered velvet, leather, wool, gauze, marabou feathers…Alongside the main catwalk show, this season Teresa Helbig also launched the new Iberia airlines uniforms that she has designed, with again her fine attention to detail and perfectionism in each piece.
Visiting the Marcos Luengo brand backstage the day before the catwalk, was eye opening as the area was a hive of activity. There was a full workshop in action, with four seamstresses making last minute alterations to the garments and milliner Nana Golmar was sat hand finishing the unique headwear being made for the show.
We were shown round the collection by the delightful, charismatic Marcus Luengo and met the abstract artist Kike Garcinuno who he had partnered with for the prints. The collection arises as a result of the abstract painting by Kike Garcinuño, where the intensity of colour immediately captures attention, reinterpreting fabrics, colours and materials in a painting. The collection was rich in colour and storytelling and once on the catwalk it really came to life.
The millinery pieces created by Nana Golmar, were all an artisanal work. The pieces were seeking their own identity for each of the Marcus Luengo’s looks, creating unique and studied pieces, where the feminine and flattering side of women is not seen as a trend, but as a seal of timelessness, a characteristic that unites both creators in their collections.
Marcos Luengo qualified in Psychology at the University of Oviedo and, after more than a decade teaching, he started working in fashion in 2001, launching his first bag and accessories collections in national multi-brand stores. He has been evolving and diversifying his activities ever since. His suede garments and accessories came first and are still the brand’s flagship product. The work done in the workshop is totally artisanal. So far, the priority has been to develop the Spanish market and create a recognisable image associated with the company’s values.
THE 2ND SKIN CO. is a fashion brand created by Antonio Burillo and Juan Carlos Fernández, both with a long background in the fashion business.
THE 2ND SKIN CO. has two main lines and the prêt-aporter is distributed in a selected network of multi-brand stores, where the product fits for its urban, sober, feminine and elegant style, with details in the garments appreciated by a woman who has no age, but is exigent about her image and enjoys the finest quality. The second is the Atelier collection, offering tailored clothes with exclusive handmade models, for customers who seek a unique, custom design and exquisite materials, such as wedding dresses, formal dresses and evening models. The universe of THE 2ND SKIN CO. offers a contemporary version of close and versatile luxury, suitable for a wide range of women, with different tastes and life styles.
The brand has successfully positioned itself in some of the most important red carpets dressing a broad number of celebrities nationally and internationally, namely: Jennifer López, Paz Vega, top model Toni Garrn, Jessica Biel, Zendaya, Adeleide Kane, Sia, Anne Heche, to name a few.
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If you want expert advice on menopause-related issues, you can pop into the women’s health clinic on the second floor, which provides everything from smear tests to hormone screening under the expert guidance of Harley Street’s Professor John Studd.
Natural light floods the first-floor hair salon, where internationally renowned stylist Frederic Fekkai can be found working his magic whenever he visits Europe, and alongside, is the CND Nail Lab for luxe manis and pedis. There’s also a men’s barber, creative body art studio, SumanBrows, make-up salon, IV infusion lounge and treatment rooms offering a full range of facials, including medi-facials.
After browsing the ground floor open plan retail space, which stocks a curated range of classic and niche skincare brands, you can finish your visit with a delicious healthy meal at FlavoUR restaurant. www.urbanretreat.co.uk
My father, Domenico, is the most positive person I know –he is an enduring influence to this day. He always sees the glass as half full and not half empty and believes every challenge is both surmountable and a learning experience. He is my constant inspiration for approaching everything in life with positivity.
My mother, Michelle, did a phenomenal job raising my brother and I. She was always there for us and ensured we were supported in all that we did – school and beyond. I think everyone’s self-esteem is driven by early foundational love and care and I am grateful for my childhood.
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a lounge area and superb terrace with spectacular views to the Mediterranean Sea. Aside from the master bedroom there are also four family bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms, dressing rooms, lounge areas and private terraces.
The basement comprises of a garage with parking spaces for eight cars, an eleven-seater cinema, wine cellar and spa with heated swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, fitness room, massage room, bathroom and two showers.
The basement also houses the staff quarters comprising of two separate one-bedroom apartments, dining area and laundry room.
This is truly a unique property and must be seen to be believed.
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