Seasonal chic… December 10, 2013 Clothes and accessories for the fashion forward Bouquet ring from Pandora £275.00 pandora.net Alexander McQueen red leopard skull print pashmina £425.00 liberty.com Perfect Black Leggings from Venus Cow £30.00 venuscow.com Luxury white coat from Karen Millen £275.00 karenmillen.com Swarovski crystal evening bag £750.00 williamandson.com Red sweetie cufflinks from Kiki £350.00 kiki.co.uk Robin knit jumper from [...]
Sugar and spice… December 10, 2013 And all things nice for an indulgent Christmas treat TWG Immortal Moment black tea £56.00 harrods.com Melt chocolate wreath £30.00 meltchocolates.com Godiva gold pouch £30.00 godiva-online-store.eu Grand Marnier limited edition Haussmann bottle £26.05 Exclusive to Harvey Nichols harveynichols.com Goose Foie Gras en Gelée £18.50 fortnumandmason.com Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester chocolate hamper £125.00 alainducasse-dorchester.com Laurenti [...]
Stylish, bold and practical to boot December 9, 2013 Peugeot’s alternative to a regular hatchback is a car that can pull you out of an icy spot this winter THE CLASSIC Chelsea Tractor is pretty impractical for most Londoners; it’s expensive to run, the side streets can be narrow and you practically invite abuse from cyclists. This is probably why small crossovers have been [...]
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At the ready… five limbering up for fitness December 9, 2013 Morning Wire and London’s newest cutting edge fitness club LAX St Botolph’s have selected five City workers to join them on a five star fitness journey to hit their health goals over the next four months LAX St Botolph’s is the city’s largest dedicated fitness club, where the latest fitness techniques and thinking are combined [...]
Searching for Santa in the Arctic December 8, 2013 Katie Hope and her four-year-old son James embark on an 18-hour journey to find the real Father Christmas TRACKING down Father Christmas in Lapland is akin to hunting an extremely rare and precious species. Come December, his impersonators are lurking everywhere you look, but the genuine article is tucked away in the icy depths of [...]
Fresh magic gets cast by Daniel Radcliffe December 8, 2013 FILM KILL YOUR DARLINGS Cert 12A | By Alex Dymoke Four Stars KILL Your Darlings revels in the cliché-saturated aesthetic of the Beats – think fusty professors, impromptu poetry recitations and furious typewriting in smoke-fugged Columbia dorm rooms – but admirably avoids hero-worship. Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac and co are presented not as [...]
A respectable remake still beaten by the original December 8, 2013 FILM OLDBOY Cert 18 | By Simon Thomson Three Stars IT’S COMMONLY assumed American audiences can’t handle foreign films. As a result, whenever you get a successful foreign film, somewhere in Southern California a producer will be asking whether it could translate into a Hollywood movie; this is the only reason Spike Lee’s 2013 remake [...]
Spectacle but no Disney sparkle December 8, 2013 FILM FROZEN Cert PG | By Melissa York Two Stars IT’S ABOUT time Disney set a film in Scandinavia – and what better time to do it than Christmas? Frozen is very loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen; thankfully, there are no children running around with shards of troll mirror glass in [...]
A journey into the colourless void of Midwest America December 8, 2013 FILM NEBRASKA Cert 15 | By Steve Dinneen Three Stars ALEXANDER Payne’s last three films – About Schmidt, Sideways and Descendants – have been bittersweet explorations of disappointment; a glimpse at the places we could all end up if life doesn’t go our way. Nebraska, his latest Oscar-baiting, black and white opus continues the theme, [...]