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Travel & Hospitality

Archer Hotel

Tasteful surroundings, efficient staff and friendly service all come together to make staying in a hotel a treat rather than a chore. But the best hotel is not the same as staying with a friend who makes it their objective to be a great host.

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Fashion

Moody Blues: McQueen's new film surveys the dark side

London – For the Alexander McQueen spring/summer 2014 campaign, American fashion photographer Steven Klein has worked with supermodel Kate Moss in a dark, dystopian display that blends murder and the macabre with avant-garde fashion.

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Fashion

Cover story: Film series expands Vogue's online repertoire

New York – American Vogue has begun a new series of miniature films, Vogue Original Shorts, featuring the magazine’s cover stars playing themselves in original narrative shorts.

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Marketing & Branding

Scents of imagination: Perfumes with back stories

Portland, Oregon – A new celebrity perfume appears almost every week, but Imaginary Authors has quietly been making a name for itself by using fictional celebrity authors as the inspiration for its fragrances.

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Fashion

Menswear brands open shops with stories to tell

A retail analysis of the latest menswear stores opening that appeal to the Re-Con Man.

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Marketing & Branding

Seeing is believing: Honda ad plays with reality

London – Classic optical illusion trickery provided the inspiration for Honda’s latest advertisement, An Impossible Made Possible.

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Food & Drink

The 2063 Project

Sunday lunch is a time-honoured tradition in the UK. And today more people are making sure that the meat they buy is free-range and that their vegetables are local and seasonal. But is this enough to halt deforestation, global warming and the build-up of greenhouse gases? Hendrick’s Gin, The Rebel Dining Society, mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana…

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Beauty

The Scent of Space

Unless you have a few hundred thousand Earth dollars, euros or pounds in the bank, you may never experience the smell of space.But Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, and olfactory expert Odette Toilette (aka Lizzie Ostrom), teamed up this week to help you imagine what space might smell like if you could…

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Retail

Passport to Sparkle

Finding customers is one thing, but keeping them is another. At present, Millennials – those born between 1982 and 1991 who have an estimated spending power of $200bn (€153bn, £131bn), according to the Forum for Innovation, the research arm of the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation – are the people that brands are trying to attract.