Joelle Lifestyle - The World at Home

Standing at the door of the legendary family boutique, tanned with a large smile on his face, young Costanzo the Italian grand son of Amedeo Canfora the three generation house of hand made sandals looks at me straight in the eyes. His grandfather Amedeo Canfora in the 1960’s dressed the feet of famous women like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn.

At Bochic, they are not afraid to dare, reuse, recycle, reinvent, reconstruct, or recreate. Like in Bohemia, it is all about the atmosphere, a way of life, a mental state of mind. Just like poets, painters, absinthe drinkers, or dandies, their work is timeless in movement where ethnicity and classical elegance blend in with natural nonchalance.

More evidence today from the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie that the watch category has become a focus for innovative thinking in the luxury industry.

At the next Cannes Film Festival, Your VIP Services is offering to its important clients a prestigious package during AMFAR Event 2008 being held on May 22 at Le Moulin de Mougins.

Last Thursday Louis Vuitton officially revealed its new design; ‘monogramouflage’ created in collaboration between Takashi Murakami, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton.

In a luxury market that seems to know no boundaries in terms of setting new standards in product and service, the recently opened Town House Galleria in Milan has wasted no time propelling itself to the top of the pile of being Europe’s first seven-star hotel.

The large diamond will be offered at auction by Sothebys in Hong Kong on April 8, 2008, during its Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Sale. Large enough to fill a tablespoon the diamond is expected to fetch US $10-13 million dollars.

Soon it will be UNESCO World Book Day, so it felt like a timely moment to mention that - to some people - the arrangement of a book collection is increasingly as important as the contents of a book collection.