THINK OF ALL THAT TIME YOU’VE SAVED… May 16, 2012 Tiny Wings | 69p | iOS Have a few minutes to spare? Then try playing Tiny Wings. The game is incredibly simple: press the screen to make your flightless bird charge down cliffs. Insanely addicitve: don’t play it on the circle line, you’ll be going round all day. Minecraft | £4.99 | iOS and Android [...]
Mellow yellow: adding warmth to chilly spring May 16, 2012 Mango scarf print dress, £34.99, mango.com Ultra-chic, this belted dress manages to evoke the golden hue of summer while keeping a solid work-worthy respectability. The mosaic is very on trend. Massimo Polomba Ella Narcissus yellow tote, £350, asos.com Hand-crafted in Italy, this gorgeous tote will carry your life in it easily – without looking sloppy. [...]
FX30d aims for Infiniti and beyond May 15, 2012 It’s possible that you haven’t heard of Infiniti but it’s a company that’s prepared to kidnap a colour in the pursuit of brand awareness. How very modern. Infiniti wants to render us all unable to see the colour purple without thinking about its brand. During lunch, even my mashed potatoes were purple. Launched 20 years [...]
CAR TALK May 15, 2012 Ferrari looks to its famous racing day Ferrari is aiming to paint the track red in September when its famous Ferrari Racing Days weekend returns to Silverstone. Vintage F1 Ferraris and iconic models – including the FXX and 599XX – will all undertake demonstration laps. Ferrari owners will get a chance to race their own [...]
Cocooned in style at the Ritz’s Salon May 15, 2012 THE Salon is a little known part of the Ritz, up on the seventh floor. It’s a surprisingly unguilded haven – plainly decorated, and quiet but for the civilised murmur of ladies having their hair and nails done and the odd door closing softly behind someone going in for a treatment. Into this rarefied atmosphere [...]
Prep for summer with Rodial’s new sculpt treatment May 15, 2012 FIT IN THE CITY This week I continue my search for the city’s best beach shape-up regimes. TRIED & TESTED: THE POWER PLATE/RODIAL SUMMER SCULPT Every so often a collaboration occurs that’s so sexy you sign up for it without really knowing what it is. This summer’s sexiest link-up is between Power Plate (www.powerplate.com/uk) and [...]
The Empress takes a sow’s ear and ends up with a silk purse May 14, 2012 RESTAURANT THE EMPRESS 130 Lauriston Road, Hackney, E9 7LH FOOD **** SERVICE *** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £25 Somewhere along the line, gentrification became a contentious topic. It tends to mean rapidly climbing property prices and lots of nice new coffee shops filled with prams that smell of Ribena and baby vomit. [...]
Mascara to keep you floating on through spring’s rainiest days May 14, 2012 Hypnose Doll Eyes by Lancome If you can forgive the name, this Hypnose edition gives massive curl and volume. £21, at Debenhams Exaggerated lashes mascara by Yves Saint Laurent YSL is one of the daddies of the mascara department. Always good for volume and separation, this is one of the best. £15-23 at Debenhams Faux [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS May 14, 2012 Grab a Tortilla next time you’re in Wimbledon Posh Mexican take-away Tortilla has continued its expansion with a new branch on Wimbledon’s The Broadway. The grill specialist now has stores in eight locations across the capital, including Leadenhall Market, Canary Wharf and Southwark. If freshly prepared burritos and fajitas are your thing, this is the [...]
The return of the Old Fashioned is proof of a cocktail renaissance May 14, 2012 FADS in cocktails come and go, but with each movement something of the best is kept, or later rediscovered. Quality endures. And thankfully we’re drinking through something of a renaissance, with no resurgence as welcome as that of the Old Fashioned. The Old Fashioned represents everything that’s good and true. Its name derives from around [...]