Big city lights
Dear globetrotting hearts, in case you’ve been stuck under a rock and missed the memo, LUXE has partnered up with Singapore Airlines to bring you a monthly travel column on their brand new silverkris.com website as well as the inflight mag (which can also be viewed in full online), and share how to spend 24 LUXE hours in some of our favourite cities.
This month, we turn the spotlight on LUXE’s home city, Hong Kong, for a round-the-clock sensory adventure. Whether you’re in search of Michelin-starred fine diners or hawker stalls, the latest designer fashion or bargain-priced samples, art and culture or the great outdoors, Hong Kong packs it all in, and we’ve compiled our faves into a neat one-day itinerary especially for you, Leggy Lovely.
What’s more, silverkris.com readers get an exclusive promo code to score 15% off LUXE guides and boxsets. Get ready, jet set, go!
Scenesational hobnobbing penthouse
‘Twas the night before the fourth Hong Kong International Art Fair, ART HK 11′s pre-opening party, and we have a winner! That’s right, LUXE City Guides teamed up with Veuve Clicquot for the fabulous ART HK 11 escape competition, and Natasha Storer, the lucky gal, took the prize. Natasha will be reclining in luxury for two nights at sleek and sophisticated glamster The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, dining at swanky see and be scenester SEVVA, and sipping copious amounts of Veuve bubbly at the Vernissage while mixing with major art players at the exclusive VIP party. It’s all right for some, eh?
Missed out on the grand prize this time? Not to worry, we’ve got a heap more delicious swag coming your way soon, so keep your eyes peeled on luxecityguides.com, LUXEtasy, Facebook and Twitter, or simply sign up for our newsletter. Easy peasy. Christmas comes around more than once a year at LUXE, don’t you know! TTFN, Leggy Lovelies.
Luis Chan at Hanart TZ
So, you’re in the Fragrant Harbour (not literally, we hope) for the Hong Kong International Art Fair, ART HK 11, 26-29 May, Asia’s most prestigious art event, mingling with the crème of collectors and flitting and floating between the more than 250 stands. Naturally, you’ll be drawn to the global heavy hitters like Gagosian, Leo Castelli, Hauser & Wirth and White Cube, but standing proud amongst them will be galleries flying the flag for Hong Kong. Here are five fab local galleries championing HK, mainland Chinese and Asian artists well worth getting a handle on.
Dear hearts, LUXE has teamed with the darlings at The Independent, one of the UK’s leading newspapers, to bring you a regular retail column of the chicest shopping in our fave cities. And where better to start your shopfest than in LUXE’s home city, Hong Kong.
Read what’s in store here, and pick up a Hong Kong guide while you’re at it. Purses out!
One of the stops on the Midtown CultureNOW tour – Grand Central Station, choc-a-block with archi n’ art wonders [photo by Nataraj Metz/Flickr]
Art and culture apps are popping up like dots on a teeny weeny bikini, but as always, caveat emptor, some are far better than others. Here’s our pick of the very best to get you front of the queue, ahead of the pack looking sleek not slack, and at the cutting edge of ‘in the know’. Sm-art!
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