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...jour at Thailand's Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, where guests learn how to interact with elephants. Paris-based shoe designer Christian Louboutin likes to escape to a house he built on the Nile in Luxor, Egypt. New York City--based wunderkind designer Zac Posen recently ventured to Istanbul (a city currently experiencing a major luxury boom) to collaborate on a special clothing collection for the Turkish luxury-goods company Vakko...
...ISTANBUL Turkish brand Gilan draws inspiration from the Topkapi Palace. Its eponymous boutique features the Chintamani ring ($1,200), fit for a queen...
...WEEKENDS, THE LINE AT ISTANBUL'S Mangerie, a hip rooftop restaurant with views over the Bosporus Strait, stretches three stories down the stairs toward the street. On a recent Sunday, Defne Kocabiyikoglu, 28, a design consultant, and her boyfriend, Baran Baran, 30, a motion-graphics animator, were settling into a Turkish brunch of kasar cheese and sesame-sprinkled simit pastries and expounding on the fashion constraints of the city. While Kocabiyikoglu can get any clothes she wants?favoring fashion-forward labels like Roksanda Ilincic and Tina Kalivas, which she buys online and mixes with local finds, she points...
...look at than your feet in this ancient city, although the poorly maintained sidewalks and snarled traffic do explain why freewheeling Istanbullus?as locals here are known?prefer to get around by boat when they can. Newly reinvigorated by a burgeoning young population of trendy, extravagant professionals like Kocabiyikoglu, Istanbul is suddenly the focus of luxury-goods purveyors looking to expand in what up to now has been a small market. Fendi has three retail doors with a fourth on the slate, Louis Vuitton is expanding its small store on the Asian side of the Bosporus next year, while Dolce...
...surprise that a young style maven like Kocabiyikoglu?who surfs style.com daily and currently has her heart set on a Christopher Kane minidress?is open to fashion forces from the wider world. After all, the city once known as Constantinople has been on trade routes since Byzantium. But Istanbul has experienced years of economic uncertainty, including Turkey's financial collapse in 2001, which analysts equate in severity to the U.S.'s Wall Street Crash of 1929. Fortunately, by 2005, inflation was brought into line and the Turkish currency?the lira?was revalued, offering a new stability...