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...mall comprises not just a still-to-be-completed five-star hotel, a branch of London's Harvey Nichols and every designer boutique you can think of but also its own ski slope. Alanoud has graciously invited me to go along with her and her friend while they shop, grab a coffee and ski. Skiing, of course, is not normally part of their daily ritual, but in Dubai you have to do things when they are new. And new is a relative term in a place where there's always a bigger mall being built, boasting even more outrageous tenants...
...spot a Brioni suit at a distance because of the shape of the buttonhole, the gentle roll of the jacket collar and the light-handed topstitching. Both say they enjoy the contact with clients and have got more comfortable with the unusual requests, like the gentleman at a Paris hotel fitting who needed a special pocket. "Waist level, something heavy. He didn't say, and I didn't ask, but I assume it was a handgun," says Lovino...
...People believed in wealth that the eye could see," says Princess Esra Jah, the Turkish-born former wife of the grandson of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, over tea at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay. Her work for the family's ambitious restoration of Hyderabad's Chowmahalla Palace as a museum is much admired, and nobles hope the family will be allowed to display permanently the Nizam's fabled jewel collection, which was acquired by the Indian government...
...statistics available aren't too comforting. No one tracks the total number of incidents cruise ships report to U.S. law-enforcement agencies. The FBI opened just 305 cruise-crime investigations from 2000 to September 2005, suggesting that either those floating hotel-casinos are some of the safest places on earth or this caseload is just the tip of the iceberg. Evidence supporting the latter: the FBI generally won't look into an onboard theft unless the items stolen are worth more than...
...Marais district is a nice start. It's romantic and has a little bit of everything: magnificent architecture, trendy boutiques and cute little streets. Then have dinner at La Maison Blanche (15 Avenue Montaigne): it's got a chic atmosphere and a fabulous view. Afterward, pop over to the Hotel Plaza Ath?n?e down the street (25 Avenue Montaigne, pictured) for a drink?its decor is an attractive mix of modern glass and traditional woodwork...