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Oakridge Park Is Open — And Vancouver’s Luxury Map Just Got Twice as Interesting

Let us get straight to the question every serious shopper was already asking: why make the trek up to Oakridge Park on Cambie when Alberni Street already delivers Cartier, Gucci, Saint Laurent, and Bottega Veneta within a few elegant city blocks? It is a fair question. It also has a very satisfying answer. The brands...

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Vancouver’s Best Bars and the Memories Nobody Ranked

I keep a mental list of the best cocktails I have ever had. Not written down anywhere, not catalogued or ranked — just held quietly, the way good things tend to be. And along with each chilled glass comes something else entirely: a fleeting impression of the room, the quality of the light, the person...

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Where Crete’s Heritage Meets the Demands of a Modern Stay

For nearly six decades, one address has quietly defined what it means to arrive in Heraklion with purpose. Aquila Atlantis Hotel, a 2026 Luxury Lifestyle Awards winner in in Crete of the Bleisure Hotel category, has earned its place among Greece’s most distinguished properties not through spectacle, but through a sustained commitment to refinement, attentive...

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The Effortless Summer Edit: Five Pieces Doing All the Work

Hello Beauties! Are you ready for the effortless summer looks that are on trend right now? We have been putting five Shapermint Essentials pieces through their paces — and spoiler: every single one earns a permanent spot in the summer rotation. Whether you are layering, transitioning from a morning walk to an afternoon patio, or...

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Pour With Purpose: The Rewild Story – From Australia with Love

National Pinot Grigio Day arrives on May 17th, and there is no better reason to reach for a bottle that earns its place on the table — and beyond it. Rewild’s Pinot Grigio, crafted in Australia’s Southern Murray Darling, opens with fresh pear and green apple aromas that feel made for warm afternoons. The palate...

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Ballet Vancouver Announces Its Inaugural 2026/27 Season

Vancouver’s arts and culture landscape has a compelling new presence. Ballet Vancouver, led by Artistic Director Joshua Beamish, arrives as a non-profit charitable company with a singular mandate: to revitalize the city’s access to professional classical, neoclassical, and narrative ballet. It is not simply another addition to the performance calendar. It is a deliberate, long-overdue...

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Where the Whales Come to Find Us: Baja Expeditions Adventure in San Ignacio Lagoon

“A life lived comfortably, is not a life fully lived.” Sit with that for a moment. Not because it is provocative — though it is — but because it demands an honest reckoning with how much of what we call luxury is simply avoidance dressed in thread count and room service. San Ignacio Lagoon, deep...

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The Solo Travel Collection: Where the Sky Comes Alive: A Finland Northern Lights Journey

Packing a bag, boarding a plane alone, arriving somewhere wholly new — not beside a partner or within the comfort of a familiar group, but simply as oneself, open and unscripted. Nadine Paulo, Founder and CEO of The Solo Travel Collection, has built her entire life’s work around this act. “I created The Solo Travel...

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Paris Fashion Week: Matières Fécales: The Ones Who Rewrote the Rules

With their debut Paris Fashion Week collection The Other, Montreal’s Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran did not just arrive on fashion’s biggest stage — they reshaped it. There is a particular kind of poetic justice in the fact that we first met Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran not at a show,...

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Find Your Hideaway: DAMARA Day Spa at Pan Pacific Vancouver

Downtown Vancouver has a remarkable ability to reward those who know where to look. Tucked into the Cruise Ship Level of Pan Pacific Vancouver, DAMARA Day Spa exists quietly on the waterfront like a secret that the most self-aware women in this city have already discovered. For those who live downtown, work downtown, or are...