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FOLIO.YVR

Celebrating West Coast Luxury Lifestyle | Elevated Consciousness

Category / ☆ Issue #02 – May

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Folio.YVR Issue #2: Loewe Totes at Milan Fashion Week Create Desire

Outside of the Loewe atelier, the stone-lined streets of the Quadrilatero d’Oro jostled with rushes of people. All trying to get by those stopping to smoke or chat, others in the street dodging scooters and pedicabs. Each in search of the next ‘must-visit’ location as dictated in the Fuorisalone 2019 guide (which contained 1,350 events)....

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Folio.YVR Issue #2: Looms at Antico Setificio Fiorentino Create History for Stefano Ricci

Through the wrought-iron gate in Via Bartolini n° 4, under the shadow of the abundant wisteria, the Antico Setificio Fiorentino produces the finest silk fabric in Italy, perhaps in the world. At this hilly location for the past 233 years, the atelier was initially assembled in 1780, and its name has been synonymous with luxury...

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Folio.YVR Issue #2: Christopher Bates: Canadian Designer

It all started with a ‘kiss on a collar’ that solidified the name ‘Christopher Bates’ into the Canadian consciousness. This cheeky design catapulted Bates from novice to expert and launched a business that consistently delivers sophisticated yet edgy men’s wear in the highest quality Italian fabrics. Bates visited Vancouver in April for back-to-back meetings and...

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Folio.YVR Issue #2: The Lambano Sanctuary Offers a Better Life in S. Africa

In Gauteng, South Africa a team of twenty dedicated medically trained staff provide full-time care for children who live with life-limiting HIV and other threatening illnesses. Theirs is a calling of dedication and sacrifice to ensure the quality of treatment provided is the best that it can be to children so limited in options. Aged...

Folio.YVR Issue #2: West Lake Journey to Four Seasons Hangzhou

To visit the incredible Four Seasons Hangzhou, guests usually arrive by taxi or private car. On a recent visit, I rethought this approach. Why shouldn’t the trip be worth the reward? I chose instead to begin at the legendary West Lake. An iconic and inspirational place is where myth and romance reside amidst forested hills just...

Folio.YVR Issue #2: Armani Casa Launches 2019 Collection

On a brisk April evening, less than 24-hours before the official launch of Salone del Mobile, legendary design icon Giorgio Armani presented his 2019 Armani/Casa collection in the spectacular Armani/Teatro. The Brutalist space, created by Japanese designer Tadao Ando in 2000, was beautifully transformed into an intense otherworldly environment. As the event unfolded, Mr. Armani,...

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Folio.YVR Issue #2: Angelo Caroli is Italy’s King of Vintage

Everyone in business has to start somewhere. For a teenage Angelo Caroli in the mid-1970s, it was offering styling advice on a local radio station which led selling secondhand American denim and military jackets at a hawkers market in the centre of his hometown. The awareness of the ‘Made in Italy’ label was still in...

Folio.YVR Issue #2: Loewe ‘Baskets’ Exhibition at Salon del Mobile.Milan Captivates

The stone-lined streets of the Quadrilatero d’Oro jostled with rushes of people – all trying to get by those stopping to smoke a cigarette or chat, others in the street dodging scooters and pedicabs. Each in search of the next ‘must-visit’ location as dictated in the Fuorisalone 2019 Guide – which happened to contain 1,350...

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Folio.YVR Issue #2: Florence’s Antico Setificio Fiorentino Atelier Creates Luxury

Beyond the iron gate at Via Bartolini n° 4, under the shadow of abundant wisteria, the Antico Setificio Fiorentino produces the finest silk fabric in Italy, perhaps in the world. As our town car departs, the Director of Communications for Stefano Ricci begins to graciously weave the incredible and fascinating history of this business. We...

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Folio.YVR Issue #2: An Evening with Dea Fortuna at Ultra-Luxury Stefano Ricci

GOLDEN GOOSE Behold the delicious Golden Goose. Conceived and crafted by Andrew Fletcher, Operations & Creative Beverage Director of private members club Dea Fortuna. A gorgeous cocktail topped with edible flowers and flakes of gold, and served in a slender coupette to our VIP guests at the Stefano Ricci boutique in Vancouver’s ‘Luxury Zone.’ With...

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