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ARC VECTOR Leads the Electric Motorcycle Pack with Luxurious Sleekness

For over 13 years, Vancouver’s Luxury & Supercar event has celebrated automotive excellence by presenting the finest vehicles from the past, present, and future. At the 2023 edition, held at the Richmond Olympic Oval Riverside Place, a new UK marque joined the main-stays – Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, McLaren, Rolls-Royce, Audi, Land Rover, and others. ARC...

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Spectre: Rolls-Royce Launches the World Most Desired EV at Monterey Car Week

Less than two years after Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced to the world its move towards electrification, the brand revealed – Spectre – its first fully electric offering to North America during Monterey Car Week 2023. Spectre, featuring a beautiful Aero two-tone finish of Black over Morganite, makes its appearance during ‘The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering.’...

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Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia: Exquisite Collab with Iris van Herpen

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has unveiled the Phantom Syntopia. An intricate, haute couture-inspired masterpiece created in collaboration with renowned Dutch fashion designer and haute couturière Iris van Herpen. Based on Phantom Extended – the ultimate blank canvas for personalization – it is the most technically complex commission ever undertaken by the Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective. Now, after...

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From British Vogue to Rolls-Royce Anniversary: Carolily Jewelry is Making a Statement

When an accessory is so divine, one can only wonder how much love, patience, and care went into its creation. Carolily Jewelry was created out of love. Donna and Danielle Scheven, the mother-daughter team behind the West Kelowna-based design house, launched Carolily to honour two exceptional women in their lives who guided them and taught...

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Issue #18 – Publisher’s Message by Helen Siwak, EIC

Welcome to Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine‘s celebration of my favourite season – Spring! A time when new designer collections are released, goals for the new year are now (hopefully) part of our routine, and nature is bursting with life. With this issue, I am pleased to share our second story in the Showcase Pianos Presents...

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Rolls-Royce x Iris Van Herpen: Phantom Syntopia

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Goodwood: Celebrating 20-Years of Rolls-Royce Excellence

When Rolls-Royce Motor Cars began manufacturing at Goodwood, it produced only one model: the original, 7th generation Phantom. The first completed motor car was handed over to its new owner in a special ceremony one-minute past midnight on the 1st of January 2003. Since that historic moment, no fewer than 20 different models and variants...

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Rolls-Royce Launches World’s 1st Ultra-Luxury Electric Super Coupé: Spectre

In 1900, Rolls-Royce co-founder, Charles Rolls, prophesied an electric future for the motor car, recognizing the clean, noiseless alternative to the internal combustion engine – providing there was sufficient infrastructure to support it. Today, more than 120 years later, the time has come for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars to fulfil the prophecy of its founding father...

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Rolls-Royce | Black Badge Ghost ☆ Folio.YVR Issue 14

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars have always attracted subversive clients – rebellious people who build their success by breaking the rules, taking risks and challenging conventions. In the 2020s, a new client has emerged who engages with luxury products on their terms. This generation rejects suits for streetwear, uses blockchain, not banks and influences the analogue world...

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Rundle Bar: A Heart of Cocktails & Class ☆ Folio.YVR Issue 14

After arriving at Fairmont Banff Springs, we recommend a process: check-in, direct luggage to your suite, then retreat to the Rundle Bar on the main floor to relax and plan the evening. Considered the ‘living room’ or ‘heart’ of the hotel, Rundle Bar emulates a sense of luxury and elegance while also being a welcoming...