Timeless Magazine: Issue 06

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TIMELESS

VOLUME SIX

THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE 2017/18



CHANEL . COM THE CHANEL MOMENT
CHANEL . COM THE CHANEL MOMENT





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2017/18 Welcome to Timeless.

TIMELESS “Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”

[ WELCOME ] We love these words from Dame Anna Wintour, the legendary Vogue editor. In a small
way, that’s what we help our customers do every time they come in to the store in
VOLUME SIX Aberdeen, shop from us online or feel inspired by our Facebook and Instagram posts.
And it’s not about being ultra-fashionable or trying to channel Elizabeth Taylor.
We’re never happier than when we see people successfully evolving a unique look that
layers all kinds of pieces, precious or otherwise. That’s personal style, in a nutshell.

Thinking about style is what inspired this year’s issue of Timeless. Whether we realise
it or not, there are tastemakers all around us, subtly influencing our decisions as to
what we wear, which car we drive, how we decorate our homes, or what sort of hotel
experience we’d like, for our precious holidays.

With this in mind, we asked the best fashion critic in the world, Sarah Mower MBE,
to name her top two British designers working today. The answer? Christopher
Kane in womenswear and Charles Jeffrey in men’s – both from Glasgow. You can
read her views on the current flowering of Scotland’s fashion scene – and what lies
behind it – on page 18. Elsewhere, Pamela Goodman, travel editor of House & Garden,
talks trends in luxury travel, where design has become an integral part of the
experience (p47); Alex Doak does a fantastic 2,000-mile roadtrip in a Bentley, to visit
the Breitling watch factory in Switzerland (p41); Geraldine Coates delves into the
backstory behind artisan gin, surely the biggest drinks craze ever (p32); Alice
Hart-Davis tells us what really works in skincare (p25); and Karoline Newman takes a
lighthearted look at lifestyle directions – what’s on the horizon for 2018 and beyond?

Alongside our style-focused features, we’ve chosen a huge variety of super-stylish
jewellery to show you this year. We photographed some of it at an old-school
Hollywood-style pool party (p52) and the rest you can enjoy browsing in the back half
of the magazine.

So whether your muse is Coco, Audrey, Elizabeth, Rihanna or Lewis (Hamilton),
we hope we’ve inspired you to go out and find your own style. We'll be waiting to
serve you, when you do.

SARAH DAWSON MATTHEW FINNIE

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TIMELESS 36–DESIGN & INNOVATION

[ CONTENTS ] As Lamborghini Edinburgh celebrates its 10th
anniversary, we take a look at how Ferruccio
10–NEWS & EVENTS
Lamborghini’s pioneering spirit is alive and well
Exciting new products from Gucci, Chanel, Cartier, Fope, with the launch of the Urus
Bell & Ross, Chopard and Georg Jensen; a responsive website
38–SPIRIT OF THE AGE
and a new building; travels, trends and craftsmanship;
charity update; and how Finnies worked with a very cute dog If you want to be ahead of the zeitgeist, look no
further. KAROLINE NEWMAN takes a lighthearted
(and its owner) to bring about the perfect proposal
look at six strong lifestyle trends for 2018
16–THE ITALIAN JOB
41–FROM A2B
For 30 years – the world’s longest association between the (WITH WINGS ON)
automotive industry and a watch brand – Chopard
Take one Bentley Continental GT V8 S. Drive it
has been creating driver’s chronographs in honour of from Aberdeen to Breitling (Switzerland).
Italy’s Mille Miglia vintage car rally
Go flying with a jet display team. Drive home.
18–FLOWER OF SCOTLAND The ultimate 2,000-mile, three-day roadtrip?

The influence of Scotland in fashion has never been more ALEX DOAK thought so
evident, from Sam McCoach’s sensational designs for
Le Kilt to Christopher Kane’s collection in homage to 47–DESIGNS OF THE TIMES

Charles Rennie Mackintosh. SARAH MOWER MBE unpicks In the luxury hotel world, design has become
the warp and weft of how Scottish designers have become an integral part of the experience. From cowboy
the most exciting in the world
saddles reinvented as bar stools to glass
47 wilderness pods and statement swimming pools,

25–BEAUTY BEFORE AGE PAMELA GOODMAN focuses on the hottest
trends in travel
Beautiful jewellery will show off your face to best advantage,
so it makes sense to look after your face and neck. 52–LOS ANGELES TIMES

ALICE HART-DAVIS shares the benefit of her experience The turbanista in a swimming costume has
always caused ripples. Today it’s an inspired
30–MIRACLE MAN retro party look, for a touch of old Hollywood

Alessandro Michele has transformed Gucci into one of the glamour and vintage beauty, poolside
most interesting fashion brands around today. He’s worked
62–COLLECTIONS
the same magic on the watches and jewellery, too
Highlights from the Finnies collections of jewellery,
32–KING GIN timepieces and special gifts

With two new releases a week in the UK, gin has become 41 Finnies the Jeweller brings
the drink du jour. GERALDINE COATES traces the path we’ve the finest collection of
rings, jewellery, watches,
taken to arrive at the great gin craze, mark 2 clocks and gifts to north-
east Scotland via its store in
8 George Street in Aberdeen.
Owned and run by the
Finnie family since 1957,
the store stocks Finnies’
own in-house crafted
jewellery and a number of
top international brands,
some of which are exclusive
to Finnies in Scotland. All
prices published herein are
correct at the time of going
to press but are, please
note, subject to change.

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NEWS &
EVENTS

ON THE GO

Recognising that so many of its customers are now searching online, on-the-go,
using mobile phones or tablets rather than desktop computers, Finnies has
launched a fully-responsive website that adapts to whatever device you are
using. So now you can hop with ease from Instagram or FB straight onto
Finnies.com, to nab your favourite pieces.

IN THE PINK

The latest timepiece from Bell & Ross, a ladies’ watch seen in this issue’s
fashion shoot on old-school Hollywood poolside glamour, is inspired by an
astronomical phenomenon: the supernova. The BR S Novarosa is designed
to emulate the explosion of a star that emits an intense brightness and
has a delicate pink halo. It comes in three finishes (above, £1,600, £5,300
& £5,300), and is also water resistant up to 100m deep. Aside from
being durable, it is also infinitely elegant and beautiful; the bezel in the
encrusted versions features 66 diamonds, and the spheres are decorated
with a sunray effect, a detail that’s difficult to accomplish.

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CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME

VSA, established as long ago as 1870, is north-
east Scotland’s leading social care charity,
providing care and education for vulnerable
elderly, young and mentally challenged people.
Matthew Finnie, who has assisted the charity’s
fundraising for the past seven years, was
appointed vice-president in October, a role he
was delighted and honoured to accept from
VSA’s president, the Lord Provost of Aberdeen,
pictured here with Matthew.

AWARD WINNER CODE COCO

Roberto Demeglio won Designer of the Year The spirit of Mlle Coco Chanel lives on with the release of a new women’s watch inspired by
at the Inhorgenta Awards, the ceremony the clasp of the famous 2.55 quilted bag, which she first brought out in 1955.
that closes the annual Inhorgenta Munich The Code Coco watch (£4,125), launched just in time for Paris Fashion Week in
Fair, one of the watch-and-jewellery industry
shows regularly attended by the Finnie September 2017, uses a clasp-like bar actually to conceal the time with a click when you don’t
family. His avant garde, artistic designs, want to see it, and the supple stainless steel strap recalls the quilted bag itself – making the
masterpieces of understated luxury, have
always been popular at Finnies; he won crossover from timepiece to fashion bracelet virtually seamless. When you do look,
the award in recognition of his Monnalisa you’ll find a rectangular, black-lacquered dial – which comes, optionally, surrounded by a
necklace. Here’s the man himself, captured
informally with Sarah and Stewart Dawson diamond bezel (£7,600).
at the Vicenzaoro jewellery show in
September 2017. “A TRIBUTE TO A STORY, STYLE AND LOOK, THE CODE COCO WATCH CARRIES
THE EVER-RENEWING CODES OF CHANEL.”

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NEWS & HEART STRINGS
EVENTS
You’ve heard of happy diamonds. Now come happy hearts. Chopard has a way of injecting
lighthearted charm into everything it does - and its Happy Hearts collection of necklaces,
earrings and bangles puts the heart motif centre-stage, reimagining it in mother-of-pearl,
turquoise, agate, onyx and coral to add a flash of colour that won’t break the bank.
The bangles (from £2,230) are particularly effective and fun for stacking.

OVER THE RAINBOW CONSTANT CRAVING

Joyously coloured gemstones are the standout feature of Established in 1988, Frederique Constant is a family-owned Swiss
Gucci’s vibrant new 18ct gold GG Running collection, the watch brand with a refreshingly independent point of view.
most modern interpretation to date of the iconic GG logo. Amongst its products – which are designed, developed and
Delicate chain necklaces (£1,200) and stud earrings built entirely in-house – you’ll find an old-style pocket watch
(from £1,200) are now in stock at Finnies, with brightly- and also a smartwatch that bravely bucks the trend and
coloured gemstones in orange, pink, yellow and blue looks like a classic men’s watch. Frederique Constant has
lending a playful air. All Gucci jewellery is handcrafted by also consistently proved that mechanical watches don’t
skilled Italian goldsmiths. have to cost the earth – they’re luxurious but accessible,
ideal presents for special birthdays, starting at around
12 £525. At Baselworld 2017 the company brought out its
first Flyback Chronograph. Inspired by 1930s original
flybacks, which were used to time races, it’s a super-stylish
automatic with rigorously-engineered complications
(hence its higher price tag of £3,495). It comes in stainless
steel or rose gold-plated, with a silver dial, a transparent back
case and a brown alligator strap.

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FLEXIBLE FOPE PORTRAIT OF A YEAR

is popular Italian jewellery brand has brought out its first-ever Over the course of a year, the Finnie/Dawson families will travel widely to source
watch – and, as you might expect, it’s designed to look like sinuous and new designs for the store, and keep in touch with trends. Among the watch and
sexy jewellery and be worn alongside other Fope bracelets and bangles. jewellery fairs they visit are Vicenzaoro, JCK Vegas and the Basel Fair (Baselworld).
Combining a quartz movement with Fope’s Flex’it bracelet – 18ct
gold, made smooth and stretchable – the LadyFope watch (£9,590 is year’s jewellery highlights – as illustrated on the collections pages - have been
or £10,030 for the rose gold) just slips on over your hand, no clasp long diamond chains, wide bangles and multi-stranded jewellery in rose gold.
needed. Brilliant for day or night. But alongside nailing the trends, Stewart Dawson has been working away on his
own private project. Having spotted some interesting settings for a ring and
matching pendant in Italy, he then scoured the world for a perfect set of sapphires,
before having them set in the Finnies workshop. It took him five months to
complete the mission – and you can see the completed ring below (£10,695).

OUTER SPACE

Finnies is expanding – but not too far from home. e company has
just acquired the substantial four-storey granite building next door,
on George Street. At street level, this promises to double the floor
space of the existing store – a hugely exciting development for 2018.
Watch this space.

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NEWS & CARTIER CLASSICS LENDING A PAW
EVENTS
2017 saw the relaunch When Dougal Fraser was working out a plan to propose
GO WITH THE FLOW of two classic Cartier to his girlfriend, he decided to enlist the help of their
watches. That icon of the Cavapoo, Skye, as well as that of Dominique at Finnies.
The famous Danish design house of Georg Jensen, founded 1980s, the ladies’ Panthere, He started by choosing a diamond, and while it was being
in Copenhagen over 100 years ago, is renowned for its calm, so named because its set, Dominique had a pink, heart-shaped dog tag made up
clean aesthetic. Its Fusion collection of wavy-edged stacking supple, articulated link with the words ‘Will you marry me?’ The couple headed off
rings was created by Nina Koppel in 1987 – originally in bracelet mimics the slinky on holiday, to the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, where
silver. They are now available in rose, white or yellow gold; movement of a panther, has she became suspicious when she saw Skye wearing a white
some pavé-set in emeralds, rubies, sapphires or white or had a makeover. It’s now ribbon, a pink tag – and what appeared to be a diamond
black diamonds. If this seems a little weird and wonderful more waterproof, the link ring! Congratulations to the future Mr and Mrs Fraser.
for a brand with such controlled sensibilities, fear not: they bracelet is stronger, and it
all fit together perfectly, like a jigsaw puzzle. In any order comes in two sizes and a
you like, with almost limitless permutations. The only limit, variety of styles including
in fact, is the length of your finger. From £595 to £3,750. steel, bi-colour, white gold,
yellow gold (£17,700) and
a stunning white gold and
diamond model.

In other news, the Cartier
Tank turned 100 in
2017, and celebrated by
relaunching the Tank
Americaine, this time in
stainless steel (as opposed
to just precious metals),
and in three sizes. Priced
at £4,550, this is a more
accessible way to get
yourself a piece of Cartier
history.

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THE ITALIAN JOB

WHEN IT COMES TO ITALY’S SPECTACULAR MILLE MIGLIA VINTAGE RALLY,
CHOPARD HAS BEEN ALONG FOR THE RIDE FOR 30 YEARS, BUILDING A
WINNING LINEAGE OF DRIVER’S CHRONOGRAPHS THE WHOLE WAY

If you know, you know. In fact, the Mille Miglia could be every to influence plenty of other horological ‘carllaborations’. This year’s
petrolhead’s ultimate vintage driving fantasy, short of winning the Mille Miglia offering alone includes updates of the Mille Miglia Classic
Monaco GP in a 1970s Ferrari F1 car. In this classic car rally staged Chronograph, inspired by the older cars of 1927–1940; even a 90th-
every year along the titular 1,000-mile loop from Brescia to Rome and anniversary flagship limited edition chronograph, celebrating the first
back to Brescia again, over 400 of the world’s most beautiful cars pass year the Brescia Automobile Club started running the race, resplendent
through some of the world’s most beautiful scenery. And despite the in rose gold. But short of owning an ultra-rare 1950s sports car, then
Mille Miglia having been a time-framed ‘regularity rally’ since 1977, even being considered worthy of participation, the Race Edition
after a hiatus caused by a horrendous crash into the crowds in 1957, pictured here is the closest you’ll get to the watch worn by those 430
these priceless cars are driven hard – the local Carabinieri literally erstwhile Toads of Toad Hall, gadding about Lombardy and Tuscany in
encourage the drivers to speed through red lights along packed streets. their automobiles.

It is a gruelling three 18-hour days, but jubilant ones. And Chopard Enzo Ferrari described the Mille Miglia as ‘the most beautiful race
has been synonymous with the event since 1988, making it the single in the world’, and this handsome sports chronograph certainly fits
longest watch-brand automotive association – longer than Breitling and the bill. Riffing on the design cues established so well back in 1988
Bentley, Oris and Williams, even Rolex’s sponsorship of the 24 Hours yet bringing things bang up to date, the counters are still inspired by
of Daytona. Chopard co-president Karl-Friedrich Scheufele competes vintage dashboard instruments, set against bare engine-turned metal.
virtually every year, with either his wife or the racing legend and friend Meanwhile, the anti-slip cross-hatch pushbuttons recall brake pedals,
of the brand Jacky Ickx (in May 2017, in his silver Porsche 550 A Spyder); the rubber strap is of course alluding to tyre tracks, and all the while
every year, each driver receives a special edition Chopard chronograph a precision ‘chronometer’ certified Valjoux 7750 automatic movement
in his or her race pack. keeps things ticking over, under the bonnet.

The publicly available Mille Miglia watch has now grown into a Toot toot!
collection in its own right – retro styled in accordance with the chopard.com
pre-’57 car criteria, but imbued with a vintage raciness that’s gone on

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Flower of
Scotland

THIS SEASON THE INFLUENCE OF SCOTLAND IN You don’t need to be around London fashion for very long to realise exactly
FASHION IS AS PUBLICLY EVIDENT AS COULD BE. how many Scottish designers are woven into the weft and warp of the fashion
FROM SAM MCCOACH’S SENSATIONAL DESIGNS community. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not because they boast about it. It’s just
a question of using your ears. Scottish accents are all over the place, so much so that
FOR LE KILT TO CHRISTOPHER KANE’S it barely seems remarkable any more. Yet, if you asked a fashion critic like me to name
COLLECTION IN HOMAGE TO CHARLES RENNIE the top two most exciting British designers working today, the answer would have to
MACKINTOSH, IT’S ABOUT UPBRINGING, IDENTITY be Christopher Kane in womenswear, and Charles Jeffrey, who is breaking all sorts
of boundaries with his Loverboy menswear collective. They’re different people, doing
AND A VERY PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH very different things, but both are from the same place: Glasgow.
HOME. BEHIND THE CULTURAL FLOWERING LIES A
Look further into the industry, which is now worth £28 billion to the UK economy, and
FREELY-ACCESSIBLE ART EDUCATION. there are Scottish voices all over the place. There’s Holly Fulton, the print designer, from
SARAH MOWER MBE UNPICKS THE WARP AND Dundee; Louise Gray, now principally an artist, is from Aberdeen. Patrick Grant, the
Savile Row tailor best-known for his part in The Great British Sewing Bee, comes from
WEFT OF HOW SCOTTISH DESIGNERS HAVE Edinburgh. One of the most exciting newcomers in men’s fashion week is Nicholas
BECOME THE MOST EXCITING IN THE WORLD Daley, who is half-Scottish, half-Jamaican. The girl behind Le Kilt, Sam McCoach, has
just scooped the prestigious Woolmark Prize – a contest hotly contended by designers
from around the UK. She’s from Edinburgh. Holland & Holland, the ultra-upmarket
British country-outdoor-wear company (which incidentally is owned by Chanel), is
designed by Stella Tennant, the supermodel who knows all about country life because
she hails from the Borders, with her friend Isabella Cawdor, of the highlands – who,
in turn, is mother of the latest 18-year-old Scottish modelling phenomenon, Jean
Campbell. Meanwhile, off in New York, Jonathan Saunders, another son of Glasgow,
is working his charm and talent for print, as he re-tools the powerhouse brand that is
Diane Von Furstenburg.

This season, the influence of Scotland in fashion is about as publicly evident as could
be: tartan is – as our mothers used to say – ‘in’. Foreign designers, from Opening
Ceremony in New York to Junya Watanabe in Tokyo, have been referencing plaid
in ways which re-echo its long history with street-style, from Vivienne Westwood-
festooned seventies punks to Kurt Cobain and nineties grunge. International orders
from Lochcarron, the world’s biggest supplier of tartans, must be booming.

MODERNISING
HERITAGE: Sam McCoach’s
brand, Le Kilt, passionately
supports Scottish craftspeople
and is also flying the flag for
the return of the tam o’shanter,
as can be seen, left, in her
collection for A/W17;
right: the extreme latticework
of Christopher Kane’s cage
crystal skirt and icing
embroidered top, from his
S/S18 collection

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LAYERS OF EXPERIENCE:
left, Christopher Kane;
below left, key looks from
Christopher Kane’s S/S18
collection include the ‘Fairy
Liquid’ lace pleated skirt shown
with a cropped patent leather
jacket and poplin collar blouse;
and a cage crystal T-shirt with
icing embroidered long skirt

But the references are very much richer and more nuanced when you actually
are Scottish. Sam McCoach was brought up with a granny who made kilts on
the Royal Mile, who passed the passion down to her designer granddaughter,
who studied at the Royal College of Art. Sam's brand, Le Kilt, is not only intent
on capturing the style for a young generation, but she is one of the most
determinedly ethical designers I’ve met in terms of supporting Scottish industry
and craftspeople. All her cashmere sweaters are made in the Borders and, since
last year, she’s had knitwear and gloves made in complex traditional Sanquhar
black-and-white checkerboard stitches, by a small collective of knitters who have
won funding to continue their painstaking skill in a community hall in the small
town in the Nith valley of the same name. Sam, who’s also flying the flag for
the return of the tam o’shanter (a spot-on shape, now that berets have returned
this winter), met the Sanquhar ladies because of Prince Charles, when both were
invited to Dumfries House for a day’s exhibition promoting Scottish textiles
in 2015, and they ended up in adjacent booths. Perhaps that’s where the word
about Le Kilt filtered through to Kensington Palace. Sam McCoach woke up one
morning last year to pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge wearing her black-
and-white tweed kilt. They’ve flown out of her e-store ever since.

“SCOTTISH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SELF-
RELIANCE IS VERY MUCH PART OF IT TO O –
THE WORK ETHIC IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED”

Modernising heritage, whilst being genuinely excited by and respectful of its
meanings, is the key to this new surge. Nicholas Daley, the menswear newcomer,
won his NewGen Men sponsorship on the basis of how he's been tracing the
history of tartan, making connections through plaid, yarn and the two-way
influences inherent in the tribal uses of checked pattern across continents to
India and Africa. Whoever and wherever they are, Scottish designers feel that
connection with home very personally. This season, Christopher Kane has
come out with it more obviously than ever before. There's a Royal Stuart tartan
mini-kilt in his pre-fall collection, and a sweater proudly emblazoned with the
word: SCOTLAND.

Tartan may be enjoying a seasonal upswing in its trend fortunes, but for Kane
and his sister Tammy (who is his co-creative director), the influence of their
shared Scottish identity has always run far deeper than designing kilts. Practically
everything he does in his collections goes back to his upbringing in Newarthill, not
far from Motherwell, and to all the layers of experiences he and Tammy packed
into their childhoods and teenage years at the local catholic Taylor High School.
Usually the signals are subtly coded; perhaps a matter of shared memories of the
style of a particular girl the Kanes would see around the village, of embroidered
samplers from WI sales, or of the horror movies their Auntie Sandra used to let
them stay up and watch while she was babysitting, or of the jewelled relics and
statues they saw in the nearby Catholic grotto at Carfin. But this year, Kane has
dealt full-on with the most unmistakable and ever-present aspect of Scottish
heritage: the world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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“Oh, in Scotland it’s so rammed down your throat at school that we didn’t want SHARED IDENTITY:
to look at it for years,” Kane laughed, when he started to show me the collection above, Nicholas Daley, half
in a preview at his shop in Mount Street in London. “But when Tammy and I Scottish, half Jamaican, is one
started to research it, we realised that Charles and his wife Margaret were not of the most exciting newcomers
widely accepted at the time in this country – they were celebrated in Paris, but in men’s fashion week;
not here. Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh’s designs for textiles and embroidery left, Nicholas Daley’s A/W17
were incredible too. But they were outsiders at the time, and me and Tammy collection shows how he makes
relate to that.” connections through plaid, yarn
and the two-way influence
Kane secured permission to shoot the collection at Hill House, and the results inherent in the tribal uses of
are probably the prettiest he's ever produced. There’s a long white lace dress checked pattern across
embroidered with snake’s-head fritillaries. Dresses constructed from black continents to India and Africa
latticework or bold black-and-white verticals echo Mackintosh furniture shapes.
It’s subtle, though, and it all remeshes back into the design language Kane has 21
been building over the past 11 years. The grid pattern, for instance, clearly made
him revisit his own love of gingham. There’s a faded pink chiffon tiered dress,
trimmed in marabou, which is 100 per cent recognisable as part of Christopher
Kane’s subtle, continuous storytelling about his upbringing.

When he explains it, backstage at a show, journalists often stagger back in
surprise, not sure if they’ve quite heard right. The gingham, for instance: “It
makes us think of our mum going out slaving to clean in schools so we could
have things, in her gingham overall,” he says. “And that's why we put cleaner-
sponges in the shoes.” The Kanes’ mother, Christine, died suddenly in 2015,

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BREAKING BOUNDARIES: a shock which also registered in Kane’s emotional ‘Car Crash’ collection, right
above, Charles Jeffrey, after their loss. Christine Kane would not have thought herself anything out of
founder of Loverboy menswear the ordinary, but the talent she quietly nurtured from the family bungalow in
collective, is one of the most Newarthill is extraordinary. How many other house-proud mothers would have
exciting British designers tolerated young Christopher and Tammy coming home to make constant messes
working today (image courtesy on the sitting room floor for their art work? Instead of stifling them, Christine
of Thurstan Redding); Kane, fed up with trying to get glue and glitter out of her carpet, had the front
right, gender-blurring against room tiled over, so they could get on with it.
a backdrop of amazing sets,
part of the Loverboy aesthetic, Part of the appreciation of the value of creativity came from the fact that the
as seen at London Fashion Kanes’ father was a draughtsman, as well as a pub-owner. But the biggest
Week S/S18 accelerator was Christopher and Tammy Kane’s access to a fantastic Scottish
art education which put the siblings in the place they are today – as it has all
22 the designers mentioned above. By any measure, as England has first instituted
university fees and then continually raised them (as well as interest rates
on student loans), it is Scottish talent, never selected by wealth or class, and
educated undeterred by fees, which is pulling ahead now.

A visit to Newarthill’s community Taylor High School shows why. A dour-looking
brutalist hulk from the outside – the copper from the roof was long ago stripped
off and never replaced – it has the vibrant energy of an art school from the inside.
There's a music lab and a hairdressing salon for school leavers to learn a trade.
The art department, when Tammy and Christopher were there, had an
inspirational teacher who set textile projects and encouraged Christopher to
get on the train and go to life-drawing classes at Glasgow School of Art. It was
there, of course, that he was first immersed in the environment and aesthetics
of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Jonathan Saunders, five years older than
Christopher, had passed through here earlier, studying product design and then
switching to print. Saunders, who had been ostracised from his Jehovah’s Witness
family for being gay, could never have afforded art college if there had been fees.
As it was, he was already off to London to finish his education at Central Saint
Martins MA course, where Christopher soon followed him. Tammy, meanwhile,
had gone to Galashiels College of Art to study textiles, an incredible course which
continues to produce many experts who work behind the scenes in fashion.

Skills as well as imagination count in the fashion industry, and Scottish education
produces both excellently. Perhaps that's why, when you open the door of
Christopher Kane's pattern and sampling room – hidden way up in the edifice
of a red brick Victorian factory in London's Shacklewell Lane – a gale of Scottish
accents wafts out. These days, many fashion students graduate unable to sew.
You can't say that of the Scottish-educated, and the disciplines take them far.

Scottish entrepreneurship and self-reliance is very much part of it too – the work
ethic is taken for granted. When Charles Jeffrey left Glasgow to join the well-
trodden road to Central Saint Martins MA class, fees had come in. To pay them,
he discovered that the Loverboy club-night he'd started for college friends – so
everyone could dress up and dance for an entry fee of £5 – could actually earn
him £1,000 a go. Loverboy funded his degree, then post-graduation became a
collective, and a collection. Today, Loverboy is exuberantly breaking boundaries,
ignoring gender, throwing amazing sets and performances into an arena which
was once dominated by the sterile catwalk. In a time of gloom, it's this energy
which makes British fashion a beacon of light and creativity admired across
continents. But, PS, Scotland and its huge culture of art education should know
how much it is contributing to its success.

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BEAUTIFUL JEWELLERY WILL SHOW OFF YOUR
FACE TO BEST ADVANTAGE, SO IT MAKES
SENSE TO SPEND A BIT OF TIME LOOKING
AFTER YOUR FACE AND NECK, SO THAT SKIN
GLOWS WITH HEALTH AND VITALITY, AND NOT
JUST FROM THE REFLECTED LUSTRE OF YOUR
CHOSEN PIECES. AWARD-WINNING BEAUTY
WRITER ALICE HART-DAVIS SHARES HER
EXPERIENCE ON HOW YOU CAN REALLY MAKE
THE DIFFERENCE

Beauty
before age

Ihave spent almost 20 years writing about beauty, and along
the way I have gleaned a few ideas about how to improve
the look of your skin. You may be relieved to know that you
don’t have to go as far as injectable treatments in order to make
a real difference.
One thing that has changed over the years is what we want from
our faces. A decade ago, beauty treatments and products were
aggressively focused on anti-ageing, with promises to make us
look 10 years younger in as short a time as possible. Now, with
plenty of feisty baby-boomers declaring that 60 is the new 40,
we’re not so ‘anti’ ageing, though, heck, we still want to look
good. The present beauty-mood is not so much about turning
back the clock as looking the best version of ourselves, looking
youthful rather than young.
If that sounds like a good idea to you, then these are the
things worth considering.
The first is decent skincare, to make your skin look plumped up,
glowy and smooth, even if it is on the ‘mature’ side. Rather than
the old mantra of ‘cleanse, tone and moisturise’, think more
about exfoliating, hydrating and protecting your skin.

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PROTECTION HYDRATION

I’ll start with this. If you do nothing else for your face, This is vital to plump up skin cells, which get less good at hanging on to moisture as
wear sunscreen. Please. A moisturiser with sunscreen, they get older, and will have the added benefit of making fine lines on the face look
a hydrating primer with sunscreen, anything as long as less obvious. Look for products containing hyaluronic acid (a substance which is a
it shields your skin. Any dermatologist will tell you that natural part of the moisturising elements found in your own skin and holds many
90 per cent of what we think of as the signs of ageing – times its own weight in water) such as The Ordinary’s Hyaluronic Acid 2%
the wrinkles, rough texture, the age spots – is the direct (£5.60, www.victoriahealth.com) or Dr Sebagh’s luxurious Serum Repair
result of years of exposure to ultraviolet light. And not (£86.25, www.drsebagh.com). Use a few drops of this on your face in the morning
just the ‘burning’ UVB rays you get from hot sun and before your sunscreen, and in the evening before your night cream, and you will
holidays abroad, though this doesn’t help, but everyday soon see the difference.
exposure to boring old grey and drizzly daylight, which
bombards us with UVA light all year round (it travels DON'T FORGET YOUR NECK
through glass, too, so will catch you in the car, or at a
desk by the window). Whatever skincare you choose, take it all the way from your hairline to your
neckline. If you fancy trying a dedicated neck cream, Prai’s Ageless Throat and
So a product that protects against these rays will do Decolletage cream, £19.99 at Boots, is an absolute cracker (it promised to make
more than anything else to slow down the rate at which a visible improvement to my neck in seven days. I didn’t believe it would, but it
your skin is ageing. Two of my current favourites are did; the pictures are on my blog). And as an all-in-one shortcut to hydrate, protect
La Roche-Posay Anthelios Ultra-Light SPF50, £16.50 and replace make-up, Bareminerals’ Complexion Rescue Tinted Gel (£28, www.
at Boots, and Olay Regenerist Luminous Brightening bareminerals.co.uk) has few equals. It’s moisturising, it has SPF30, it gives skin a
Moisturiser, SPF20, £29.99. light wash of colour and it comes in 16 shades.

EXFOLIATION FACIALS-PLUS

Exfoliating your face is helpful because it gets rid of Should you want to take things a bit further, here’s a couple of what you might call
the dead cells that hang around on the skin’s surface. ‘facials-plus’, which will perk up your face more than a pampering salon treatment
Rather than using face scrubs, which I feel are a bit without going as far as Botox and fillers.
rough for older skin, try a product based on exfoliating
acids such as Alpha-H Liquid Gold (£33.50, www. The Hydrafacial deploys a pen-like device tipped with a whirling vortex of water
cultbeauty.co.uk), Vichy Idéalia Peeling (£30, www. to exfoliate the skin, extract debris, give the skin a light peel and flood it with
vichy.co.uk) and Beauty Pie Fruitizyme Five Minute hydrating serums (from £120, see www.hydrafacial.co.uk for salons). Afterwards,
Facial (this costs £5.86 if you’re a member of Beauty your skin looks fresh and glowing, and will be more receptive to whatever skincare
Pie’s subscription beauty club, £50 if you’re not) – and you are using.
use it twice a week. Don’t be put off by the word ‘acid’
– these won’t burn holes in your skin, but will gently Then there’s CACI Synergy, a treatment which combines electrical microcurrents
dissolve the bonds that are keeping the old skin cells that lift and tone the muscles in the skin with LED light therapy (this is soothing
stuck to the surface. Without this debris, your skin will and painless) that reduces pigmentation marks (from £80; for salons, see www.
look fresher and smoother. caci-international.co.uk). You’ll see the difference after one treatment, but doing a
course of these will give longer-lasting results.

And talking of skin pigment, which has a way of gathering itself into brown age-
spots on our faces and hands as we age, the most effective way to soften this is
with a treatment or two of Intense Pulsed Light (IPL), which uses bursts of light
to break up the pigment under the skin. It feels a bit like having an elastic band
flicked at you – not pleasant, but not intolerable – and costs around £80 a session
(search online to find salons that offer the treatment near you. It’s a well-
established and well-proven technology, and is widely available).

ABOVE LEFT:
Alice Hart-Davis
recommends wearing a
moisturiser or hydrating
primer with sunscreen
to guard against
the ageing effects of
ultraviolet light

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TWEAKMENTS BELOW LEFT:
done subtly, aesthetic
From here, it’s only a deep breath and a hop and a skip treatments give lovely
on to cosmetic treatments that involve needles, such as results, and with many
Botox and fillers. These get a bad rap thanks to all the cosmetic doctors talk of
pictures of over-filled and over-smoothed celebrity faces ‘tweakments’ rather than
that litter the internet, but done subtly these give lovely ‘treatments’, needn’t
results, particularly since most cosmetic doctors are into be scary
‘micro-dosing’ and prefer to talk of ‘tweakments’ rather
than treatments. It’s what I prefer, too – small doses of “THE PRESENT BEAUTY-MOOD IS
Botox to ‘relax’ facial expressions rather than to smooth NOT SO MUCH ABOUT TURNING BACK
them away altogether, and just enough filler to stop my
face looking gaunt. THE CLOCK AS LOOKING THE BEST
VERSION OF OURSELVES”
And, to be honest, once a face has lost its youthful
fullness it is bound to look saggy and wrinkly, and only
a bit of plumping up with filler can restore that volume.
(Think of the ageing face as a plum that has withered to
a prune; even a face lift that tightened the skin would
only result in a tight prune of a face. To get those plum-
like contours means adding padding, from the inside.)

I know this whole area sounds scary but there are
hundreds of excellent cosmetic doctors across the UK and
if you look for someone who is registered with the British
College of Aesthetic Medicine, (www.bcam.ac.uk), the
British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.
baaps.org.uk), or the British Association of Cosmetic
Nurses (www.bacn.org.uk), you will be in good hands.

Finally, I don’t mean to nag, but our lifestyle has a huge
impact on how good our skin looks, whatever our age.
Get enough sleep, reduce your stress levels, eat a healthy
diet and avoid smoking and you’ll be doing your skin a
huge favour. Then the glow that your jewellery adds to
your face will just be the icing on the cake.

alicehartdavis.com

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FOPE, ITALIAN FINE JEWELLERY

FOPE is an Italian goldsmith which has evolved into an
international fine jewellery brand. Established in 1929
in Vicenza, near Venice, FOPE proudly combines the
work of skilled craftsmen to the precision of state-
of-the-art machines and continues to grow under
the guidance of the third and fourth generation of
the founding family.
All the FOPE collections share a sense of subtle
luxury which can be defined both as timeless and
contemporary. Every jewel is crafted in-house and
retains an unmistakable Italian style, while the signature
Flex’it lines also introduce an original groundbreaking
system which render the bracelets both elegant and
comfortable.

FOPE.COM

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It used to be that the phrase “fashion watch” was used in a slightly dismissive
manner, implying that fashion houses really can’t make timepieces of
substance; that they are just used as line extensions to allow more people to
buy into the brand.

If ever there was a brand that has subverted that notion it is Gucci. Since the
1970s, when the brand brought out its first watch collection, it has been an
integral part of the house, mirroring the codes of its ready-to-wear collections
and, with some details, such as the bamboo-bezelled watches, even employing
the same craftsmen.

As interwoven as the two strands of the business has been, it has never
been as obvious as it has now been since Alessandro Michele took the role of
creative director.

After his standout womenswear show in February 2015 featuring strange-
looking bohemian girls bedecked in what looked like the finds from their rich
grandmother’s attic, if their grandmother had once been a princess in ancient
Rome, there were questions, at Baselworld two months later, as to whether
Michele would be working the same magic on the brand’s watches and jewellery.

The answer, which was given at the fair a year later, was a resounding yes.
Gone were the bamboo bezels and horsebit bracelets and in their places, as
illustrated in the fabulous Le Marché des Merveilles collection, were bees, hearts,
stars, snakes and lions. The Gucci colours of red and white were there but coated
in plexiglass, on top of which was a see-through quartz dial. All of this was
accompanied by a campaign that had all the dreamy references of the ready-to-
wear collections; those same beautifully ethereal girls who looked as though they
had wandered in from a 1920s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream put
on by a group of aristocrat bohemians at a house party.

MMIRAACLNE
ALESSANDRO MICHELE HAS TURNED GUCCI FROM A
BRAND TIREDLY REHASHING ITS GREATEST HITS TO
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING FASHION BRANDS
AROUND TODAY. AND HE’S WORKED THE SAME
MAGIC ON THE WATCHES AND JEWELLERY TOO,
AS LAURA MCCREDDIE-DOAK EXPLAINS

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Having the same creative mind that was behind the ready-to-wear collections FAR LEFT: among
also bringing his inspiration to bear on the watches and jewellery had created this year’s Gucci watch
an exciting synergy between the two. The new design language was being releases was a model
shared and the results were like nothing else. that features a snake
crawling across the
There were automatics, complete with more sober leather straps and gold-plated leather strap onto
cases, but instead of indices there were stars, hearts and, Gucci’s new signature the dial.
animal, bees. Similarly, in jewellery, the superlative craftsmanship and stone-
setting were still in evidence but deployed making lions’ heads and skulls rather LEFT: a Nato strap
than petals and bows. emblazoned with the
brand’s new slogan,
It was a big, bold, beautiful collection and one that was to get its own ambassador ‘L’Aveugle Par Amour’
in the form of Florence Welch. Welch was the perfect role model for this new (blind for love)
incarnation. With her eclectic, opulent way of dressing and almost shamanic
stage presence, she already embodied the new world Michele had created and RIGHT: this year Gucci
looked perfectly at home adorned in his creations. added a moonphase
to its collection. It
Thankfully this wasn’t just a one-off. The correlation between what was on the has a date window
Gucci catwalk and what was being developed in accessories became even more at 6 o’clock, a quartz
entwined, so much so that Gucci became one of the few Houses to show the movement and is on
watches, as well as the jewellery, as part of its catwalk show. a leather strap

RIGHT: from the Art of This year saw Nato-style straps embroidered with the slogan ‘L’Aveugle Par
the GRG Fashion show Amour’ (or blind for love), which featured heavily in the S/S 17 ready-to-wear
collection, this plexiglass lines, resin lions’ heads that slid aside to reveal watch dials and an amazing dual
number has a visible time that had a snake for the second time-zone hand. However, the standout
quartz movement and piece from this year’s collection, and one that showed Gucci has just as much of
bracelet in Gucci colours a handle on the trends in the watch industry as it does those in sartorial sphere,
is the G-Timeless Moonphase.

Moonphases are everywhere this year – Cartier put an enlarged one in its men’s
hero watch the Drive de Cartier, while the must-own piece from the new IWC
Da Vinci collection contained this lunar complication. In Gucci’s version, the
lunar disc is in rainbow shades, while dotted around the black dial are multi-
coloured planets and shooting stars: it’s as if Willy Wonka went mad in a watch
factory. Michele has, in the past, spoken about a disregard for the rules, looking
for romance instead and that attitude is writ large in this watch. It is a moonphase
that could only have been created by someone outside of the watch industry and
all the better for it.

There is a sense that Michele is applying the same magpie irreverence to the
watches and jewellery as he does to Gucci’s clothing. Everything is inspiration
and there to be absorbed and refracted through his particular prism. In a recent
interview with Vogue Italia, Michele said that he felt this easy plundering of
history was a result of a certain quirk of his father’s. “I grew up with a father
who didn’t wear a watch,” he said. “And this has permanently marked my
relationship with time.”

Despite this, if the past two years are anything to go by, he certainly has an
intimate knowledge of how to make a great timepiece. Looks like Gucci has
managed, almost single-handedly, to change the meaning of the phrase ‘fashion
watch’. Certainly no one’s being dismissive now.

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KING GIN

WITH TWO NEW RELEASES A WEEK – There’s no question that we are in the grip of a modern gin craze – and a very different
JUST IN THE UK – GIN HAS BECOME THE one from the gin madness that swept the country in the 18th century when London and
POPULAR DRINK DU JOUR. BUT HOW DID IT other big cities were awash with cheap and noxious spirit.
REINVENT ITSELF AFTER THE DARK DAYS
OF DECLINE THAT STARTED IN THE 1970S? It’s astonishing, but very welcome. I published my first book on gin in 1997, and I often claim,
FAR FROM BEING AN OVERNIGHT SUCCESS not entirely jokingly, that the only people, back then, who were seriously interested in the juniper
elixir were me and Desmond Payne, Beefeater’s hugely respected master distiller. We still have a
STORY, IT HAS INVOLVED A COMING cackle about how the gin world has changed.
TOGETHER OF SEVERAL KEY TRENDS.
GERALDINE COATES TRACES THE ZIG-ZAG Back then, one would walk into any high street off licence or supermarket and find a few dusty
PATH WE’VE TAKEN TO ARRIVE AT THE bottles: Gordon’s, certainly; Beefeater, possibly; and, if it was an upmarket sort of place, Bombay
Sapphire. Now, online drinks retailers usually have over 300 gins on offer. That doesn’t include
GREAT GIN CRAZE, MARK 2 the many tiny brands sold in person the length and the breadth of the country. Then, gin was in
a slow but steady decline, losing market share and, crucially, the youth market. But in 2017, sales
of gin in the UK broke through the £1 billion barrier, whilst in the US, British gin’s biggest export
market, sales have increased by 553% in the last decade. The number of gin distilleries in the UK
is double what it was in 2010 and, as I write, another will surely be opening.

So what happened? How did gin, once the world’s most popular white spirit, reinvent itself after
the dark days of steady decline that started in the 1970s? It’s certainly not been an overnight
success story, and it has involved a coming together of several key trends.

First, and not to be underestimated, is the commercial savviness of Bombay Sapphire who
basically recreated gin for a new generation with a less juniper-heavy spirit designed to lure
younger drinkers away from vodka. Its success inspired others like Hendrick’s, whose floral
taste profile attracted those who used to say “I don’t like gin”. Others have picked up the baton.
New entrants to the market have been massively rewarded with ever-increasing sales and, in the

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LONDON OR WHAT?

The idea that gin can be divided into craft gin and
mass-produced gin is a fallacy. Whether you’re
making two cases of gin a week or 2,000, production
is exactly the same – neutral spirit is re-distilled
together with a range of botanical ingredients such as
natural berries, seeds, barks and spices, with juniper
predominant.
Most bottles of decent quality gin will bear two
signifiers on their labels – ‘London Dry’ and ‘Distilled
Gin’. These cause immense confusion as many people
think that London Dry means the gin is made in
London. Not so. The description came about because,
when gin evolved from cheap rotgut to an elegant
spirit in the 1850s, many of the distillers making
the new, non-sweetened (aka dry) gin were based in
London. London Dry described a style of gin then,
and it still does.
To qualify as a London Dry Gin, according to EU law,
ethyl alcohol of specified quality must be distilled in a
traditional still with the botanicals. The flavourings
used must be natural, no flavourings or colour can
be added after distillation and the only additions
allowed are further spirit, a small amount of
sweetening and water to reduce the gin to its bottling
strength. Most of the classic gins, like Beefeater, are
made this way.

case of London-based Sipsmith, a once-niche small brand, a £50 million buyout. The cocktail ‘Distilled Gin’ is slightly different in that it may refer
revival of the 1990s inspired hip bartenders to revisit gin. Bartenders love gin because of its to a gin that is distilled in the traditional way and
mixability and the fact that most of the world’s great cocktails, such as the Dry Martini and the be a London Dry style too. Or the gin might be a
White Lady, were invented with gin in mind. Properly made, classic cocktails are now a big thing new-style gin, such as Hendrick’s or Martin Miller’s,
for a whole new generation and even that old stalwart the G and T has had a makeover, with where flavourings are added after distillation,
hundreds of different gin, tonic water and garnish combos on offer. in which case the label won’t say ‘London Dry’.
That’s not to say it’s of inferior quality. Sometimes
On a practical level, gin is a relatively easy spirit to produce. It does not require ageing, so the entry particular flavours, cucumber for example, can only
barriers to setting up a small distillery are low. Once the stills have been acquired and the recipe be added after distillation for technical reasons.
developed, you can start distilling. And a week after that you can be selling your product in all As a bit of a gin purist I always look for another
kinds of new ways – online, at farmers’ markets or at food and drink festivals. Scottish distillers clue: the wording ‘100% grain spirit’. In theory,
who already have traditional stills and vast experience have not been slow to see this and gins like the neutral base alcohol in gin can be made from
Caorunn from Speyside and The Botanist from Islay are big hits amongst the gin cognoscenti. a variety of substances and today there are gins
that use potatoes, apples or grapes. Traditionally,
THE MANY FACES OF however, gin’s heart has always been a high quality
GIN-MAKING: above neutral grain spirit, and I’m afraid I can usually spot
left, raw organic juniper when it’s something else.
berries; above clockwise
from top left, stills at the 33
Kyoto Distillery, Japan’s
first dedicated artisanal gin
distillery; Desmond Payne,
Beefeater’s master distiller;
processing of The Botanist,
the first dry gin from
the island of Islay; right,
botanicals are hand-picked
and sorted at Caorunn

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“THE IDEA THAT YOU CAN BUY THE GIN GINS TO SEEK OUT
FOR YOUR G AND T FROM A DISTILLERY
UP THE ROAD, MADE FROM INGREDIENTS There are currently at least two new gins being launched every
THAT GROW LO CALLY, IS ALMOST MAGICAL week, and that’s just in the UK. But too much choice can be as
IN OUR INCREASINGLY MECHANISED, bad as too little, so here’s a quick, very personal guide to a few to
FACTORY-FARMED FO OD WORLD” watch out for. Some are only available from specialist sellers like
Gerry’s Wines or the Master of Malt.
But perhaps the most important reason why gin has captivated new audiences
and now seems on an unstoppable roll is the total revolution in consumer habits. PICKERING'S GIN
Modern consumers actively seek out drinks that have heritage, authentic flavour
and local provenance. Gin ticks all those boxes. It’s a particularly British drink, Edinburgh is becoming a hub of the craft distillery scene. One of
whose chequered history is closely linked to key moments of our history such as its the most interesting is Pickering’s Gin, made in a small distillery
introduction as Dutch genever when William of Orange acceded to the British throne that was once dog kennels at the former Vet School campus,
in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Unlike vodka, it’s a spirit of flavour with a huge now the Summerhall arts centre. Its label-making machine is
range of taste combinations. And the idea that you can buy the gin for your G and seen in action, below.
T from a distillery up the road, made from ingredients that grow locally, is almost
magical in our increasingly mechanised, factory-farmed food world. KIRSTY'S GIN
But, but, but: whether all this gin activity is sustainable is another matter. There’s
always the danger of ever more ludicrous claims that cause consumer backlash. A genuine ‘field to glass’ spirit, defining the artisan approach,
Recently I’ve been told, via enthusiastic press releases, about a gin made with dragon’s with grain for the 100% grain spirit grown on the farmland
eye fruit to increase male potency, a gin made with Cornish clotted cream, a gin that surrounding the distillery on the scenic Arbikie estate in Angus,
uses ants as its signature botanical and – the one that really grabbed my attention Scotland.
for its unlikeliness – Collagin, an anti-ageing, collagen-infused brew that prevents
wrinkles. As you drink it, presumably. If only. LUSSA GIN
Gin: A Toast to the Most Aromatic of Spirits by Geraldine Coates is published by Carlton.
gintime.com Also in Scotland, the islands have been getting in on the gin act
in a big way. Lussa Gin from the Ardlussa Estate on Jura is a
floaty, floral gin made with botanicals that are locally foraged
on the island.

HEPPLE GIN

From the wilds of Northumberland, Hepple Gin, a collaboration
between chef Valentine Warner and drinks guru Nick Strangeway,
is a watchmaker’s gin for the purist.

KI NO BI GIN

Japanese distillers make whisky to rival Scotch and a new
Japanese gin, Ki No Bi (the Beauty of the Seasons), made with
Japanese botanicals like yuzu and green tea, is an impressive
first release from the Kyoto Distillery founded by Marcin Miller.

NO. 3 LONDON DRY GIN

Produced by Berry Bros & Rudd, this is a classic, beautifully-
made and stylishly-packaged gin with a juniper punch that
diehard gin fans love. London is now also home to The East
London Liquor Company and the City of London Distillery
(COLD), which produce excellent gins and liqueurs.

VIDDA TORR GIN

Our European neighbours have only recently acquired a taste for
gin but now distil with brio. Vidda Torr Gin from Norway is a
new star on the scene – a breath of fresh Nordic mountain air.

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technology

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&DESIGN INNOVATION

SINCE 1963

Ferruccio Lamborghini was a trendsetter, who pushed the boundaries and refused
ever to accept that he couldn’t create a better car. He established his business in
Sant’Agata Bolognese, in 1963, determined to build a better super sports car than
was available at the time. Every model, from the 350 GT, through icons such as the Miura,
Countach and Diablo, to the ‘original’ luxury SUV, the LM002, proved that Automobili
Lamborghini could combine extraordinary performance, groundbreaking design and the
most emotional driving experience.

Today’s product range continues the tradition of innovation, with the sound of Lamborghini’s
naturally-aspirated engines and unmistakable design always turning heads. The V12
Aventador S, launched in 2017, succeeds the original Aventador – its prowess denoted by
the ‘S’ for ‘spinto’, or ‘pushed’. With its new aerodynamic design, redeveloped chassis and
suspension, increased power of 740 hp and new driving dynamics including rear-wheel
steering, this is a model of vastly improved performance.

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The Lamborghini Huracán replaced the Gallardo, and in its four wheel and two wheel- LAMBORGHINI EDINBURGH
drive coupé and convertible Spyder iterations, continues the naturally-aspirated V10’s
success worldwide. The most recent Huracán to be unleashed is the Performante. Lamborghini Edinburgh is currently celebrating its
Featuring lightweight carbon fibre engineering, 640 hp and acceleration from 0 to 10th anniversary, together with its friends and fellow
60 mph in just 2.9 seconds with a top speed over 200 mph, the car’s striking looks Lamborghini owners. A loyal following, Lamborghini's
herald its dynamic abilities. A patented, active aerodynamics system, Aerodinamica clients enjoy more than just a knowledgeable and
Lamborghini Attiva, electronically controls airflow around the car, depending on friendly sales and after-sales service; they can also
driving conditions and whether maximum downforce or top speed is required, take up opportunities to attend events and experience
allowing the car to corner and handle in the most efficient way. days, in Scotland, Italy and beyond. “Lamborghini
owners are part of an informal club, a family,” says
Although Ferruccio Lamborghini famously wanted to focus on GT and road-going sales manager Andy Canning. “They’re from all walks
cars rather than motor racing, Lamborghini today shares technologies between the of life, all ages, with different interests, but share a
world of motorsport and its road cars, with its successful single-make series the Super common fascination for Lamborghini super sports
Trofeo now running in three continents: Europe, the Americas and Asia. The new cars. The Urus’s arrival with us in 2018 will provide
Super Trofeo EVO launched in autumn 2017 will not only race in the Super Trofeo an exclusive opportunity for those passionate about
series but will compete with customers in international GT and endurance races. the brand, who want to drive a new class of super
The launch of the new race car also coincides with the announcement of a new SUV. We look forward to celebrating with friends old
partnership with luxury Swiss watchmaker Roger Dubuis, starting in 2018. and new.”

Next year is a landmark one for the Lamborghini brand: its new luxury Super SUV the
Urus launches, taking Ferruccio Lamborghini’s company from Sant’ Agata Bolognese
to a three-model line-up. Promising the Lamborghini DNA of pure design, dynamic
road performance as well as significant off-road capabilities, the Urus pushes new
boundaries, sets new benchmarks, and creates a new class of its own. Ferruccio
Lamborghini would be proud.

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SPIRIT GARDENING // INSIDE OUT AND OUTSIDE IN

of the age In Silicon Valley, so valued are the digigeeks that interior and
exterior spaces seamlessly connect to avoid breaking their train
If you want to be ahead of the zeitgeist, look no further. of thought when walking from place to place. Modern homes also
KAROLINE NEWMAN takes a lighthearted look feature this blurring of boundaries between house and garden
at six strong lifestyle trends for 2018 as we move fluidly from inside out and outside in. Even our
furniture is blurring boundaries, as sofas and beanbags appear
on exterior decking and the garden aesthetic moves indoors.
Surely the most extreme example is the kitchen worktop beside
the cooker, that runs along the wall inside and continues,
beyond a plate glass window, into the garden to finish beside
the built-in BBQ. Just add sunshine.

LIFESTYLE // COMEBACK NAMES

Move over Apple and Peaches, hip and cool fruits on the register.
In keeping with the vintage vibe, parents are even upcycling
names from a previous era for their newly-minted babies.
Class rolls are filling up with Wilfred and Herbert, Mabel and
Martha, Edith and Ethel. Little gems like Ruby and Pearl rub
shoulders with heroic Percivals and Edmunds. In an age of
uncertainty, these names feel reliable and suggest a sense of
permanence. When optimism finally prevails over realism, can
we also expect to see Grace, Patience and Constance making their
triumphant comeback?

FASHION // SHOES THAT LACE

Zips and Velcro are so unforgiving! Lacing, on the other hand, gives a little lassitude
when it comes to proper fitting. But there is an anomaly. Whilst laced corsets, basques
and even bridal gowns – with their air of suggested innocence – gain a frisson of
fetishism from their tightly-pulled, interwoven ribbons, there is little that’s sexy about
a pair of practical lace-up shoes. Except that branded trainers run off the retailers’
shelves as fast as Usain Bolt and plimsolls in various guises are perennially popular.
Whilst Rosa Klebb in ‘From Russia with Love’ and Nurse Ratched in ‘One Flew Over
The Cuckoo’s Nest’ gained notoriety in their shoes, they also created a negative image.
Now, a new generation of fashionistas are heralding a comeback for the lace-up, as a
comfortable and trendsetting fashion accessory.

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TIME OFF // HIVE TALKIN' WITH THE BEES

Take a guess at the number of bees buzzing around
in the UK… The answer is amazing: 25 species
of bumble bee, 260 species of solitary bee and
one species of honey bee. But there’s a sting! Bee
populations are declining, and with 70% of the crop
types that provide 90% of the world’s food relying
on bees for pollination, we really need to look out
and care for our nectar-seeking friends. Plant more
flowers; do less weeding; mow the lawn infrequently;
and create little watering places. Even better,
take up beekeeping as your new go-to pastime.
Notwithstanding the thousands of frenzied bee miles
that go into filling every hexagonal honey cell, honey
is the ultimate slow food – medicinal, calming and
full of the scent of your own garden. A truly stress-
busting diversion.

FITNESS // AIRBOARDING

In this Facebook age, those with an inflated ego and desire for social mobility (admittedly
downward), who wish to draw attention to themselves, now have the perfect winter
sport. First there were sleighing and tobogganing, then the luge (popularised by Olympic
champion Amy Williams); and now we are told airboarding will be the hottest – or should
that be coolest – trend on the mountains. Just imagine the adrenalin rush of travelling
headfirst at up to 80 miles per hour down the piste on a tech-invested, semi-steerable,
pressurised cushion. It puts soft furnishing in a whole new light. You can do it at Chill
Factore in Manchester – home to the UK’s longest indoor skiing and snowboarding slope;
or in the vrai French Alps, at Alpe d'Huez - where at least you can revert to skiing when
you’ve had enough. Next up: sofa surfing?

ART & CRAFT // SUNDIALS Sundial designed by Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd, carved by Ben Jones

Once upon a time a carriage clock was the standard
long-service retirement present. But in a digital age,
when time is measured to a millisecond, a wrist gadget
that chronicles your every movement, calorie intake
and sleep pattern is hardly conducive to the anticipated
years of rest and relaxation. Instead, a sundial will
mark the slower passage of the day in rhythm with the
solar cycle, as Apollo rides his chariot across the sky.
It'll feel even better if you commission a master letter
carver painstakingly to inscribe it. A unique and
cherished garden ornament like this will give a general
indication of when it’s a fitting time to open a bottle
and (unlike a carriage clock) unwind.

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TAKE ONE BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT V8 S.
DRIVE IT FROM ABERDEEN TO BREITLING
(SWITZERLAND). GO FLYING WITH A JET

DISPLAY TEAM. DRIVE HOME. THE ULTIMATE
2,000-MILE THREE-DAY ROADTRIP?

ALEX DOAK CLEARLY THOUGHT SO

A BF R O M 2

[with wings on]

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conveyed cross-continent on a tidal wave of refinement. The miles tumble away,
and we are delivered to Switzerland with our minds still keen for more. In any
other car, you’d arrive at Neuchâtel’s Hotel Beau-Rivage feeling exhausted and
ready for bed. In the Bentley, you may as well have popped to the shops and back.

To experience the Swiss Jura’s sweeping, switchback roads and lush, panoramic
slopes with Bentley’s 4.0-litre V8 beast growling in front is pure exhilaration.
Where there are mountains involved, there are always roads worth driving.
Spring has just sprung, and with the roof stowed, our senses are overwhelmed
by the distant burble of melted snow and the heady zest of pine sap. No doubt
every bystander’s own senses are stirred by the sight and sound of the car’s
pillarbox-red paint scheme, muscular stance and snarly exhaust note, as we pass
through strangely municipal Swiss villages and contrastingly lush landscapes of
clanking cowbells and misty evergreen.

Our destination, La Chaux-de-Fonds, is perched all the way up in the Jura
mountains, a stone’s throw from the French border. Fondly known as the
cradle of Swiss watchmaking, it’s the highest city in Europe, as well as one of
the most remote.

White-tiled floors you could eat your dinner off. Studied We are here to witness how Breitling has switched from using tried-and-trusted
handcraftsmanship practised alongside precision robotics. chronographs sourced from Swatch Group to its own newfangled ‘B01’ design –
Luxurious marvels of engineering coming off the production a move that takes vast technical know-how, investment in the tens of millions,
line. All accompanied by an invigorating whiff of warm oil. Bentley’s historic, and a truckload of guts.
squeaky-clean manufacturing plant in Crewe is always a feast for the senses.
But boy, has it been worth the effort. From the batteries of five-axis CNC milling
Only we’re not in Crewe at all. We’re 740 miles south-east, at Breitling’s shiny machines, their heat-exchange units keeping the factory warm in the bleak Swiss
Chronométrie watch factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland – a place that winter, to the sushi-bar assembly line, delivering movements and pre-assembled
might possibly rank as the world’s most high-end industrial estate, with Cartier, parts to watchmakers via a magazine system pioneered by a German blood-
Tissot, Bell & Ross and Chanel all down the road. analysis lab, the ‘Swiss lever’ watch – still based on centuries-old mechanical
principles – has never been manufactured in such a cutting-edge manner.
I’m here to observe Bentley’s watchmaking partner (of 14 years) doing what few
others could hope to achieve: make its own precision mechanical movements ABOVE: the author at
entirely autonomously. the wheel (Breitling for
Bentley watch criminally
But to rewind and explain a few things first. We’re making this three-day, 2,000- obscured), clearly enjoying
mile round-trip in a Bentley – the stonking Continental GTC V8 S, in fact – the unbridled joy of an
starting at Edinburgh’s Bentley dealership, with a stop at Finnie’s in Aberdeen open-top Continental
to collect our engines for the wrist: a Breitling-for-Bentley titanium-cased GMT GTC on the continental
Lightbody with the B04 GMT in-house-movement, its voluptuous case knurled open road
with Bentley’s famous cross-hatched grille texture.
RIGHT: the 49mm-
Chronographs duly started with that satisfying ‘click’, it’s a multi-péage A-road diameter, titanium-cased
whoosh through France before we finally hit the twisty roads out of Besançon, Breitling for Bentley
towards the heights of the Jura. Heading for our first overnight stay on Lac GMT Light Body B04
Neuchâtel, on the other side of the crumpled landscape, we really start to test the (£10,500), kitted out
V8 S’s sprightly, torquey agility about the winding tarmac. Despite the car’s heft, with the watch atelier’s
it feels as precise as one of Breitling’s chronometers. proprietary chronograph
movement, fitted with a
second-time-zone module,
itself indicated by the big
red hours hand

FAR RIGHT: precision
mechanical movements
are made entirely
autonomously at
Breitling’s ‘Chronometrie’
watch factory in
La Chaux-de-Fonds,
Switzerland

It’s all too easy to become caught-up in the capabilities denoted by that ‘S’. The
really impressive ability of this car is what binds every Bentley that leaves Crewe,
and what allows the ‘whoosh’ through France to be barely noticeable, despite
the relentlessly featureless miles. Ensconced in a hushed leather bubble, we are

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“TO EXPERIENCE THE SWISS JURA’S SWEEPING, BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT V8 S
SWITCHBACK ROADS AND LUSH, PANORAMIC SLOPES
The most formidable iteration of
WITH BENTLEY’S 4.0-LITRE V8 BEAST GROWLING IN Bentley’s grand tourer-cum-coupé
FRONT IS PURE EXHILARATION”
ENGINE / CYLINDERS / VALVES

V / 8 / 48

FUEL MANAGEMENT

Direct injection

MAX TORQUE @ ENGINE SPEED

680 Nm / 502 lb.ft @ 1700 rpm

POWER OUTPUT @ ENGINE SPEED

528 PS / 520 bhp / 388 kw @ 6000 rpm

TOP SPEED

192 mph / 309 km/h

ACCELERATION

0-60 mph / 4.3 sec

FUEL CONSUMPTION

Urban
26.4 mpg 10.7 litres/100km
Extra urban
18.0 mpg 15.7 litres/100km
Combined consumption / range 1
36.2 mpg 7.8 litres/100km

CO2 EMISSIONS (COMBINED)

250 g/km

From £149,800
bentleymotors.com

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BELOW: Breitling talk WATCH THESE SPACES
the talk and fly the walk,
boasting a display team It isn’t just Breitling Chronométrie
of seven L39 Albatros (breitling.com) that welcomes careful
military trainers, piloted drivers. Dotted throughout the Swiss
by highly experienced Jura are some of the world’s finest watch
ex-French Navy hotshots. factories, with facilities that – if you
If you’re lucky enough, and navigate the winding foothills
your stomach is strong successfully – reward the mildest of
enough, you can ride along curiosities…

LONGINES

Tucked into the quaint village of St Imier,
north-east of La Chaux-de-Fonds and at
the tip of ‘Watch Valley’, Longines has
been here for all of its 180-plus years,
and its history is duly celebrated by a
museum of great variety and richness.

There’s even a laboratory where chemists, physicists and mathematicians scrutinise and improve
the tiniest things with electron microscopes and torque meters. One robot analyses the ‘feel’ of
Breitling’s chronograph pushbuttons – just as Bentley has honed the exact ‘clunk’ of its doors.

This is high-end industry all right: in keeping with a brand that has also developed strong ties to
the skies. Our factory tour guide, suave vice-president Jean-Paul Girardin, commutes to work
from Grenchen in an Explorer 900 helicopter. “At Breitling,” he says nonchalantly, “we’re not
just talking about aviation, we’re living it!”

On the way back north, we take the opportunity to make a diversion via Dijon for the final part TISSOT
of our immersion into all things Breitling and Bentley. It’s here that Breitling’s aviation link goes
way beyond the vice-president choppering into work every morning. As if we were in any doubt Head the other way from Breitling down
about the brand’s flyboy credentials (despite the fact most professional pilots wear a slide-rule Watch Valley, and you’ll quickly reach
Navitimer pilot’s watch as a rule), Breitling operates its very own jet display team. Obviously. Le Locle, where another extraordinary
cluster of brands is concentrated. Tissot
So, abandoning our muddied GTC at Dijon Air Base, we put our chronographs (and stomachs) to is the biggest – it’s one of only three Swiss
the test at 6,000 feet, under 5g. It certainly is an extravagant bit of marketing, a jet display team. brands in the so-called ‘Billion Club’,
Probably even more extravagant than using John Travolta to front your ad campaigns. But when named after its total production over the
you begin to piece things together – everything from the Bentley connection, to the state-of-the- years – and its brand-new roboticised
art factory, to hiring seven ex-Navy pilots and buying seven L39 Albatros military trainers – you logistics and parts storage facility is like
soon realise that Breitling simply want to do everything ‘right’, and in the finest way possible. something out of a sci-fi epic.

And if it takes a three-day roadtrip in a GTC V8 S through mountain scenery wearing a cool watch
and doing a loop-the-loop in a jet along the way to come to that realisation, then so be it.

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IN THE LUXURY HOTEL WORLD,
DESIGN HAS BECOME AN INTEGRAL

PART OF THE EXPERIENCE.
FROM COWBOY SADDLES REINVENTED

AS BAR STOOLS OR POTATO CRATES
UPCYCLED INTO COFFEE TABLES,
TO GLASS WILDERNESS PODS,

TEAK-LIVERIED HOTEL BOATS AND
STATEMENT SWIMMING POOLS,

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UPCYCLING breathes
new life into old objects:
left, at Artist Residence
London; right, at the
Ranch at Rock Creek in
Montana, where cowboy
saddles are reinvented as
bar stools; below right, at
The Pig at Combe where
crates double as tables;
and bottom left, at Casa
Uxua in Brazil, where
leather trunks open to
reveal flatscreen TVs
FLOATING HOTELS:
opposite, the exterior of
Four Seasons Explorer,
a three-deck luxury
catamaran operating in
the Maldives

EIGHT PODS combine
external wilderness with
interior luxury at The
Highlands in Tanzania,
above left and right,
on the forested edge
of the Olmoti volcano
within the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area

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