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What sets today's leasing programs apart is the recognition that it's not just a product that clients want to rent but a service. At Classic Car Club, Thorne is invited to a weekly happy hour at its bar and lounge, and almost every week, he has the chance to participate in a range of special activities, including taking a spin in a race car on a road track. Oh, and when Thorne is in London, he can rent a Rolls-Royce through the club's reciprocal program there. Similarly, members of Exclusive Resorts are assigned a vacation planner...
...legacy of the name that created Chanel No. 5 is no small feat, but if anyone is up to the task, it's Jacques Polge, Chanel's talented perfumer since 1978. This month marks the introduction of Les Exclusifs de Chanel, an impressive fragrance collection comprising four classic scents?No. 22, Gardenia, Bois des Iles and Cuir de Russie?and six new ones created by Polge. Like many of Chanel's fragrances, all of the new scents, packaged in identical bottles, have names that relate uniquely to the iconography of the renowned house: 31 Rue Cambon is the address that...
Chanel, whose hand-sewn shoes take more than two days and 100 steps to make, based its classic two-tone flats on the beige-and-black pumps Coco designed to elongate the appearance of the leg. Now available in countless color combinations, they're sharing the spotlight with brands like Delman and Azzedine Alaďa. And while the traditional quilted suede and toe bows are as popular as ever, embellished adaptations are gaining traction. London Sole, a celebrity favorite, stocks in excess of 400 options, using fanciful materials like glitter and faux snakeskin. New classics include versions from...
...London fish restaurant has seen some famous faces over the years, including Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe. James Bond creator Ian Fleming discovered the delights of a martini, shaken not stirred, at the bar, while the joint was mentioned in the Hollywood classic The Great Escape as a dream destination after the war. It had lost its luster by the time it was acquired in 2005 by Caprice Holdings?owners of Le Caprice, the Ivy and J. Sheekey?and then closed for a multimillion-dollar renovation...
...can’t out-white white folks, and more importantly, our ancestors weren’t trying to either. The various civilizations of Africa had their own ideals and values by which they judged the quality of art, people, and societies. Some of these ideals resembled those of classic Western civilization, but some did not. So as we celebrate black history, we need to examine what it is we are celebrating and why. We should be celebrating black history for what it is, and not merely for its likeness to western European history...