by Nyssa P. Chopra | Sep 9, 2012 | Beauty + Fashion, Destinations, Eat Well, France, Travel Well, United Kingdom, United States
Love fashion and macarons? Yah, silly question, who doesn’t?! International fashion house Lanvin has teamed up with French confectioner Ladurée for a special edition box of macarons. Designed by Lanvin’s creative director Alber Elbaz, the whimsical, playful...
by Nyssa P. Chopra | Sep 8, 2012 | Destinations, Europe, Library, London, Travel Well, United Kingdom
Created in 1996, the Portobello Film Festival aims to provide a platform for upcoming avant-garde film-makers and to give daring and ground-breaking directors a chance to get their films noticed. It’s the U.K.’s biggest independent film competition. The...
by Nyssa P. Chopra | Sep 8, 2012 | Beauty + Fashion
The September editions of fashion magazines are usually the biggest, fattest, and most important. You’ll know what I mean if you’ve seen all 916 pages of Vogue’s September 2012 issue. The reasons are: More advertisers invest. Fall/winter trends are...
by Nyssa P. Chopra | Sep 4, 2012 | Austria, Destinations, Europe, Travel Well
Vienna—the birthplace of such diverse icons from Alfred Adler to Franz Schubert—certainly sets the standard for classical music and sophisticated culture, and its 1,900-year history makes it even more interesting. Modern Vienna is a refined mixture of old Habsburg-era...