Luxury & Lifestyle

By Julia Roxan From supplying integral EPM parts to competing Formula One teams, Mulholland Automotive has now unveiled its Legend 480 coupe, with plans to produce a broader range of models. Revered for their meticulous eye for detail, the niche British sports car company, Mulholland Automotive prides itself not only in supplying integral EPM parts to competing Formula One team but...

Nigeria's leading luxury fashion destination Polo Avenue has secured sole rights to retail Gucci Ready-to-Wear clothing in Nigeria and West Africa. A spokesperson for Polo Avenue made the announcement today during a media briefing held at Victoria Island Lagos. The spokesperson noted that Polo Avenue has successfully established itself as the gatekeeper for luxury brands in West Africa. This successful establishment...

Venice-based studio Nuvolari Lenard’s 14-seat luxury hybrid water taxi has ‘obtained complete approval by the classification bodies’ after a test period of about a year. Built at Cantieri Vizianello in Venice, the 9.2m luxury water taxi was conceived by Carlo Nuvolari and Dan Lenard, who organized a forum at last year’s Venice Boat Show to discuss potential designs for a...

By Miracle Nwankwo We are in a time where our fashion priorities are no longer dressing to look good but to keep safe. I remember walking into a supermarket recently to get some groceries, and I was sent back because I had no mask on. I was forced to take a few miles back home to get my face mask if...

Being quarantined in the house, and having to take those 2 am zoom lectures which are often awkward and boring, can be mildly soul-destroying. Maybe you’re running low on funds after using online shopping as a coping mechanism. You’re here because you need a distraction from this new normal. Start by considering these 25 ways to stay active and hustle...

By Lauren Schwahn In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, millions of Americans are shifting to remote jobs or conducting their employment searches entirely from home. Job hunting has always been a little stressful. OK, a lot stressful. A global pandemic certainly hasn’t remedied that. Rather, it’s changing the landscape. For one, it’s heating up the competition. Millions of newly out-of-work Americans are...

By Alder Yarrow It’s been 11 years since I first visited South Africa. And after writing that sentence, I went back to find the post I wrote, capturing my impressions of the country’s wines. In the intervening decade, I’ve followed the trajectory of the industry as best I can, through trade tastings, samples and reading, but the combination of these is...

Many Parisians consider the area a no-go zone of prostitutes, drug dealers and petty criminals. It's also seen clashes between youngsters and French police — and, in July, anti-discrimination protests, inspired by the Black Lives Matters movement in the United States.  But Jacqueline Ngo Mpii's "Little Africa" walking tour instead showcases the talent and energy of the neighbourhood's African diaspora. "Barbes is...

You also need to pay more attention to yourself and be mindful of how you spend time with yourself. That way, you’ll be able to recognise when that ‘alone time’ is turning into ‘lonely time’, or when staying at home is making you feel isolated. The recent Coronavirus pandemic and this self-isolation period has, to an extent, shown many of...

Anxious thoughts can be more difficult to escape in sustained isolation, such as the widespread lockdown measures due to the coronavirus pandemic, but arts and crafts have been shown to help distract from these feelings.  The coronavirus has so far infected more than 1.9 million people worldwide, with 119,686 deaths, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.  The scale...