Photo: Jonathan Taylor/Courtesy of Dior SpaWhat should you try?“What’s your main concern?” Freddy asked. “Getting older,” I replied. “Same, same,” he responded. Freddy gamely applied some antiaging products (long gone are the days when we all just pretended to be sanguine about...

What should you try?RAKxa offered me a litany of new sensations. I’ve never been in a hyperbaric chamber and I felt like the last astronaut in the escape pod of an Alien franchise installment, breathing extremely enthusiastically as the pressure shifted. I’ve never been...

This is a good day to wish that the world was a little bit more Alber Elbaz.More full, that is, of the joie de vivre, wit, intuition, empathy, and spontaneous flair that Elbaz brought to fashion. The kind of thinking he applied...

What should you try?“Our most requested treatments are the Renaissance Facial and the Serenity Facial,” Main tells me shortly before I arrive. “Crafting exclusive rituals and designing our facial protocols became the core focus as we developed the Spa.” She mentions that...

What’s the vibe?Sugar Beach (home of the Rainforest Spa) is a lush, flower-strewn hotel, spanning 130 butler-serviced rooms set over 100 acres. Each room is slightly different, but all boast a private plunge pool and four-poster beds that feel like a crisp,...

“Imagination is more important than knowledge,” LVMH chair and CEO Bernard Arnault said on Thursday, quoting Einstein at the group’s annual general meeting, while sporting a Louis Vuitton Tambour Einstein watch. Held at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, Arnault addressed key...

In the 40 years that Yves Saint Laurent helmed his namesake label, the designer took inspiration from art of all kinds: painting, dance, and poetry among them. But Saint Laurent—a renowned collector and a friend to many artists, including Andy Warhol and...

With three-day weekends on the (slightly distant, but just within reach) horizon, now’s the perfect time to plan your inaugural summer getaway. Before you do, it’s time to make a silent promise to yourself. Chaotic carry-on and stressful pre-flight deliberations, no more—this...

The world at large likes to tell us what art is and should be and, often, how it ought to be executed.In 1508, Pope Julius was telling Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel in Rome when all Michelangelo wanted to do was...

Welcome to the third iteration of Vogue’s global spa guide, a collection of the 100 best spas in the world, compiled based on first person reviews and careful editing. This year, we’ve renewed our focus on places that have established a reputation...