Bring in the Year of the Ox with Chinese New Year Celebrations at The Peninsula Hong Kong

Publisher: The Informed Traveler
Author: Mary Winston Nicklin
Published: January 14, 2009
Say so long to the year of the Rat. On January 26, the Chinese New Year will start with a bang; Chinese communities worldwide have festive fireworks and parades to mark the first day of the Chinese lunar calendar for the year 4707. Hong Kong heads [...]

Fashion Rio: Day 1

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Pia Catton
Published: January 11, 2009
It’s Fashion Week in Rio de Janeiro (Fashion Rio) and it’s already clear that the Cariocas have their own splashy way of doing things. On the banks of the Marina da Gloria (a large bay with a view of the massive Sugarloaf mountain with the Jesus statue), [...]

Jetsetera

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Rebecca Voight
Published: December 11, 2008
Paris goes into hyperdrive in the days leading up to Christmas. New boutiques battle construction delays to open before 2008 turns into 2009, while big stores like Prada and Nina Ricci invite les intimes to ogle fresh cruise and spring merch as they take in champagne and [...]

French Vogue 2009 Calendar Launch

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Rebecca Voight
Published: November 26, 2008
There’s nothing like a bit of T&A to get the ho, ho, ho going. At least that’s what Carine Roitfeld and naughty Terry Richardson cooked up with Louis Vuitton for French Vogue’s 2009 calendar. A Christmas gift to readers plastic-bagged with the Dec/Jan issue (guest-edited by Stephanie [...]

Shelby Auctions ‘Black Hornet’ Mustang For Charity

Publisher: LIFT Magazine
Author: Tanya Ryno
Created under the direction of racing legend Carroll Shelby, the 1968 Shelby EXP500 CSS “Black Hornet” pays tribute to its chrome and green prototype, the Shelby Green Hornet. Like its predecessor, the Shelby Black Hornet sports the famous scoops and stripes, powered by a Cobra Jet 428 V8 engine with a [...]

Honor the Presidential Inauguration in Washington DC: Inaugurate Your Appetite at Loews Madison Hotel

Publisher: The Informed Traveler
Author: K. Clare Johnson
Published: November 14, 2008
Dine like the Commander-in-Chief at Loews Madison Hotel, Washington DC. In honor of the presidential inauguration, Chef Arnel Esposo of Palette Restaurant in the Loews Madison Hotel will offer his version of the official Inauguration Luncheon fare with a three course prix-fixe menu available at both [...]

Jordan Betten Art Opening

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Pia Catton
Published: November 6, 2008
Nov. 6: Jordan Betten may be best known for his kinky leather brand Lost Art, but at his W. 29th Street studio he presented paintings of a kinkier sort. No brushstrokes here; Betten paints with squeeze bottles in continuous lines that result in wall-sized Pollock-like canvases….
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Big Fat Greek Fashion Show

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Cesar Padilla
Published: October 28, 2008
Local talent mixed with a selection of designers shipped in from abroad made for an interesting week in the chaotic city. Highlights included Antwerp Royal Academy graduate Demna Gvasalia, whose collection won my heart with its goth agenda—high goth at that….

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Presidential Election Themed Packages at Hotels

Publisher: The Informed Traveler
Author: Mary Winston Nicklin
Published: October 17, 2008
Election fever has prompted hotels to get patriotic with special packages, as we noted with the Fairmont Copley Plaza’s “Making of a President Package.” But the trend doesn’t stop there. As Travel + Leisure reports, these presidential promotions are available not just in red and blue [...]

Hint Tip: Transformazium

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: hintmag
Published: October 10, 2008
Transformazium, a group of amazing women (artists, organizers, social reformers and sweethearts, each one of them), up and transplanted themselves to a mostly abandoned steel town outside Pittsburgh last winter as a sincere, long-term life experiment to fix up an old, beautiful, weird church and turn it into [...]

Paris Fashion Week: Gold Digging

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Haidee Findlay-Levin
Published:October 7, 2008
One of the shiniest stars of Paris Fashion Week was shine itself. One would predict that in this current political and economic doom and gloom, designers would reflect this with something pretty sober, conservative or at the very least classic. On the contrary, designers have opted for all [...]

Paris Fashion Week: Hermès

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Pia Catton
Published: October, 2008
Go-go gauchos roamed the Hermès runway, a long and dusty road covered with sand and dotted with cacti. Nary a lonesome doll was without a cowboy hat. Fringe, ponchos, bananas—all the trappings of the Wild West were here. Leather jackets and ponchos came in creamy shades of butter [...]

Paris Fashion Week: Chanel

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Pia Catton
Published: October 3, 2008
Karl Lagerfeld is known to be a music obsessive. And at the show today, the only thing that topped his guitar case made of white Chanel quilting was a pair Elvis sunglasses with plastic sideburns….

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Paris Fashion Week: Dior

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Pia Catton
Published: September 30, 2008
Oh, those swishy little skirts at Dior! John Galliano’s diaphanous and pleated silk skirts—let’s be accurate and call them minis—peaked out underneath studded, belted and fitted jackets, plus a few dramatic bodices. Too bad the Met’s Superheroes exhibit closed already as this collection is prime material for [...]

Paris Fashion Week: Nina Ricci

Publisher: HINT Fashion Magazine
Author: Haidee Findlay-Levin
Published: September 29, 2008
The setting of a Nina Ricci show always manages to transcend the usually mundane tent experience. The first Nina Ricci show with Olivier Theyskens at the helm was held on a magnificent winter day with a translucent pale-blue sky and leafless trees that were in such sharp [...]