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 Fashion and
hotel business as concepts should have met at some stage since they observe the
same aspiration, same interests and concerns, and the same passion to make
everything beautiful. For the last ten years a dozen of new designer hotels are
founded in the world. The hotels are presented as complexes with the interior
and exterior fully created by the leading designers of the world.
The Italian
designer, Donatella Versace, was first to set trend for the construction of the
private hotel and in 2000 she opened the multi-exclusive Palazzo Versace (Main
Beach Queensland 4217) on the sunny shore of Australia. Her luxury hotel decorated
with the rich gilding and Medusa heads, permanent symbols of the designer
House, turned out to be profitable and leaded in the market being the excellent
example to follow to the competing companies. Versace was followed by the other
reputed designers who also opened their hotels, including Ralph Lauren, Oscar
de la Renta,
Christian Lacroix, Giorgio Armani and the Missoni. Fashion Time presents the
seven wanders of the world, the unique haute couture hotels.
1. Palazzo
Versace
Five-star Palazzo
Versace (palace from the Italian) is the joint project of the Italian House of Versace
and Sunland Group Ltd Companies and Emirates Investments Group Australia Pty
Ltd. Five-storey hotels opened on the golden shore of Queensland in 2000 and
included in the elite network of The Leading Hotels of the World, consists of
205 elite rooms of the main complex, 72 condominiums, three restaurants and the
private harbor. Donatella Versace considers the interior of the hotel seems
like «the luxury of Renaissance». The hotel was widely in print in the society
column and world mass media in 2006, when Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid, the ruler
of Dubai reigning for many years, died in the hotel in inadequate circumstances
from the heart attack. In the soonest time the second hotel of the future hotel
network will be opened in Dubai
that intrigued the society with the availability of the frozen beach, the
phenomena of the world.
Price: $495
USD and higher for a night.
2. Hotel du
Petit Moulin by Christian Lacroix
The master of
the theater design, Christian Lacroix, widened the scope of his works the
previous year. Now his works are available on the walls of one of the ancient
houses in Paris.
A small private Hotel du Petit Moulin (29/31 Rue du Poitou 75003, Paris) was
founded where the ancient bakery was there, in the most beautiful and bohemian
quarter of Loire-les-Marais. In spite of the modern furnishing of every single
room out of seventeen, the hotel remained the spirit and atmosphere of France
of XVII century. Christian Lacroix furnished the rooms personally, and every room
is devoted to a particular detail of life of the average Frenchman: some rooms
are full of heart-shaped images looking at visitors from walls and mirrors, the
other rooms are decorated with flowers and trees, some walls demonstrate people
playing in petank, or cause to listen to relaxing jazz sounds. «I liked the idea
of the hotel, kind of travel through the rooms, throughout the lives of guests,
their tempers, - says Christian Lacroix. This project is like the fashion, when
the harmony is reached when various particles of inspiration and imagination
are matched».
Price: 190 Euros
and higher for a night.
3. Tortuga
Bay Private Beach and Vacation Villas by Oscar de la Renta
This is the
hotel of The Small Leading Hotels of the World network, the superb Tortuga Bay
Private Beach and Vacation Villas' (Tortuga Bay Private Beach and Vacation
Villas, Punta Cana, Higüey) situated in the most picturesque part of Dominican
Republic, on the famous resort Punta Cana. Oscar de la Renta, the couturier from America,
is the all-the-times master of the classic elegance, designed the interior of
the cozy and luxury hotel, located not so far away from his residence, with the
tropic patterns and accessories and the relaxed atmosphere of Latin America. The
coziness is created with the sandy marble, snow-white furniture, golden satin of
sofas, and cane chairs «To my mind, the hotel gives the energy of Cuba of 50s,
- says the designer favored by Sarah Jessica Parker, who spends some time on
the resorts, as reported in mass media, consisting of fifteen villas deep
inside the tropic gardens of the Caribbean island. - I would like guests to
feel as if they were at my place».
Price: $300
USD and higher for a night.
4. Round
Hill Hotel by Ralph Lauren
The American
designer Ralph Lauren is the co-owner of the luxury Round Hill Hotel, John
Pringle Drive, Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies within over twenty years,
though several years ago he took a part in the regular planned repair works and
re-design of interior even that cost 6 million dollars. Montego Bay in Jamaica, located on the western end of the legendary
Bay turned into the privileged resort from the modern plantation of cocoa nuts
and pineapples in Jamaica
supervised by Lauren, and consisting of 36 rooms with the view to the ocean and
27 private villas with swimming pools. The relaxing atmosphere of the resort
and the brand «Lauren» design with pseudo colonial American accent, plenty of
trees and white stone fill the air of Round Hill with the aroma of the summer
days.
Price: $410
USD and higher for a night.
5. The G
Hotel by Philip Treacy
The G
Hotel, Wellpark, Galway, Co Galway, Ireland is the ode of the legendary
milliner Philip Treacy to his favorite designers and artists. «I have a goal to
entertain and surprise, and make people happy with my unusual ideas, - says Treacy,
welcoming the guests of the exclusive online hotel. And on the top of it, I
would like to create the glamour ambience as it is». The capital «G» in the
hotel name is from the British word «glam». The designer believes that the stay
in the hotel furnished and decorated by him is equal to passing along the red
carpet. The Pink Salon is his favorite place in the hotel, where glamour is
seen in its concentrated form, presenting the lounge with chairs painted as the
camouflage print, white-and-black carpet with the effect of whirlpool and
shocking pink walls.
Price: 150 Euros
and higher for a night.
6. Hotel Missoni
Dominated in
the core of the Golden Mile, the historical region in Edinburgh, the first hotel of the Italian Fashion
House Missoni is opened in June this year. The glorious view is provided from
the cozy terrace to the historic Edinburgh,
and 136 spacious rooms are decorated in the brand style of the company that is
reputed in the master technique of the color gamut. Hotel Missoni, 1 George IV
Bridge, launched by Missoni in concert with the Scandinavian Rezidor Hotel Group is personally supervised
by the creative director of the House, Rosita Missoni, who promised to open
another hotel in Kuwait to the end of 2009, and to invite her first visitors to
the brand hotel in Oman by 2012.
Price: 213 Euros
and higher for a night.
7. Armani
Hotels
Giorgio
Armani Fashion House signed the agreement with Emaar Properties developers in 2004. In compliance with
the contract provisions, the Fashion House in Milan was promised to open ten hotels and
four resorts during seven coming years. However, the crisis suspended the project
for an indefinite time. The first hotel of the luxury network was planned Armani
Dubai, that would consist of 37 first grounds of the legendary sky-scraper Burj
Dubai in the main commercial center of UAE. As rumors say, Giorgio Armani drew
the design project of the hotel and even assigned the individual collection of
furniture for the hotel interior of Armani Casa, but still, financing investments
are anticipated to further the project.
Inessa
Hyder
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