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Inside London’s Gin Hotel

On London’s quaint and endearingly buzzy Portobello Road, The Distillery’s deep navy awnings serve as a beacon for what lies inside, though what lies inside can hardly be contained by the singularity of its name. There is indeed a full-blown subterranean distillery installed, but alongside it is a school of … Read more

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The Craziest Carnaval You’ve Never Heard Of

Northern France’s industrial port city of Dunkerque is known for several things: its eponymous battle (the subject of Christopher Nolan’s current film Dunkirk), its classification as part of the quirky “Ch’ti” region (which comes with its own dialects and all), and an absolutely insane iteration of the world’s carnivals that … Read more

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Paris Fashion Week Agenda

Every spring and fall, the global fashion hive congregates in Paris and Milan for a much hyped week or so of runway shows, parties, dinners, and celebrity sightings. In the Paris phase of the circuit it’s tough to score access to the shows unless you’re a bona fide fashion editor … Read more

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Toasting National Margarita Day in NYC

Nowadays, it seems as if there’s a holiday for everything. Some are more mundane than others (National Cabbage Day? Who knew?), but nothing begs to be honored quite like tequila’s most celebrated shaken concoction: the margarita. Technically, Cinco de Mayo does it justice, but if ever there was a perfect … Read more