Father Christmas is a TOTAL Daddy
Santa – who you may know from such classics as your chimney, Miracle on 34th Street, that grotto down the Arndale Centre and kissing yo Mamma underneath the mistletoe – has come out as gay.
Soho House round your house
Now, we’d all like to live in Soho House. Some of us practically do, and we blame them for making that perfectly acceptable house red so reasonable.
One-Minute Hotel / Five Acre Barn, Suffolk
A reasonably-priced architectural gem in the countryside perfect for a high-style getaway? Where are those wellies?
Look hot while doing sweet, sweet nothing
Orlebar Brown have launched their very first, very luxury loungewear collection, a very clever, stylish, soft-to-the-touch reaction to our NWOL (New Way Of Living).
Love Edinburgh, love a townhouse, totally gonna love Gleneagles Townhouse.
Gleneagles Townhouse – yep, same people! – will open this coming spring, having taken over the former British Linen Bank in St Andrew Square in Edinburgh’s glittering and very zhuzhy New Town.
Capri’s getting this hotel. Now we’re talking.
Oetker Collection has unveiled its Italian job, and we’re so on board.
Design, you say? District, you say? Canteen, you say?
It’s not often we get down to Greenwich Peninsula. Maybe it takes Diana Ross at The O2 to do it. Or a Jake maybe, like we used to do on those rooftops at those luxury apartments. But that was then, this is now and we think we have the perfect excuse…
It’s a very Carnaby Christmas 2021. Dust off your baubles!
Christmas – one of our all-time favourite C words – is apparently making a return this year, and always hot-to-trot on the act is London’s glittering Carnaby Street-and-environs.
Dame Joan Collins is Unapologetic… Well, we knew that!
Remember that night at The May Fair where we had Dame Joan Collins all to ourselves? How she read from her new book? How she submitted to an interview from her best friend (and our founder) Ivan Massow? How she laid herself open to our questions, no matter how impertinent?
Maybe it’s because it’s The Londoner
A question for you: when is a boutique hotel not a boutique hotel? When it’s a super-boutique hotel, silly!
A gay Aesop room of one’s own
Love an Aesop, don’t you? Anyone who can combine a Greek fabulist (they never gave us that option during career’s advice! Rude!) and gorgeous things that make us scientifically more beautiful already has our vote.
Young, Gifted and Fabulous… Why we loved the 70s
‘For ten glorious years, I had the best seat in the house,’ says Bruce as he introduces us to a skinny-as-a-whippet Chaka without so much as a weave…
One-Minute Hotel / Mondrian Shoreditch, London
A little slice of New York City right slap bang in the middle of London’s newly-glittering East End? Oh, go on then.
Who wants to see the final trailer for James Bond? There’s a lot going on.
Colour, movement, hair, make-up, pouting, you know the drill.
One-Minute Hotel / Nobis Hotel, Copenhagen
Colour, style and the most perfect location: just three things that make this our favourite designery Danish digs.
Sweet smell o’ sexy
We don’t know about you, but what you can’t tell about a man by the way he smells isn’t worth knicker elastic. Or something.
One-Minute Hotel / Sinner, Paris
Probably Paris’s coolest new hotel. Definitely Paris’s coolest new hotel.
Money off Russell Tovey. That’s pricked up your ears!
Michael Longhurst – Artistic Director of Donmar Warehouse, a place that isn’t afraid of a star turn - has roped in the loveliest gay in showbiz, Russell Tovey, and Omari Douglas off-of It’s A Sin (who we’re sure is also lovely but we haven’t had the pleasure) to star in his interpretation of Constellations at London’s glittering Vauderville Theatre.
One-Minute Hotel / 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, NYC
A real oasis - and we don’t go to the ‘o’ word very often - of greenery and sustainability with views across the city that never sleeps... and never stops going on about how it never sleeps. Insomnia, much?
Life is a you-know-what, old chum
When it comes to musicals, we have a very definite top 5. In no particular order they are: Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, Chicago, Evita and, of course, Cabaret.