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We know what you’re thinking: how on earth do I pick out the cream of the comedy and avoid the am-dram dullards at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe?
How do we know this? Because entertainer, comedian and all-round showmanship-wonder Chris Cox has been peering into his murky toughened glass ball, and he told us. Not via [...]
In the run-up to the launch of Mr & Mrs Smith’s new France hotel guidebook on 1 July, we’re bringing you a series of posts about one of our favourite European destinations. Today, we visit the romantic-weekend capital of the world with a peek at some of Paris’ hidden delights, courtesy of Francophile femme and [...]
With pieces in every wardrobe worth a walk in – from Hollywood royalty to just, well, royalty – Amanda Wakeley’s style queen status is undisputed (and, as demonstrated by her OBE earlier this year, even the Queen agrees).
We’re currently running a competition with Amanda’s sought-after fashion label – there’s £600 worth of chic womenswear [...]
Raquel Laneri, writer for Forbes and author of her own blog, Electric Warrior, packed an overnight back and grabbed her Mr Smith to blog for us from the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York
Exquisitely manicured, fantastically quiet and unusually secluded: Gramercy Park in New York City. You need a key to get in and [...]
Nicole Campoy-Leffler is a born-and-bred Angeleno, a one-time student of ballet and opera, a connoisseur of underground arts movements, and a writer for Fine Arts LA – there can be few people more qualified to serve up an insider slice of LA’s cultural scene. The Smith Travel Blog asked Nicole what she thought were the [...]
A while ago, we chatted with the Handpicked Collection about superiority in gift selection. With the 16th Best Day of the Year* for Lovers speedily approaching, comedian Sally Phillips gives us her take on what she’d really love for Cupid’s calendar moment…
Valentine’s Day. The day I try hardest not to look like a gerbil (difficulty [...]
It’s time to re-assess the wardrobe when the waitresses at the bar I’m in are wearing better outfits than me. OK, these weren’t just any old waitresses. In fact, I don’t think we’re even allowed to call them waitresses, they’re way too cool for that. These were glowing, silk-sheathed ‘hostesses’ serving Manhattan’s best martinis [...]
Not long ago, we dispatched travel blogger Heather Cowper on an anonymous review trip to the enchanting Hotel Heritage Av Liberdade in Portugal’s capital. Not only did she produce a terrific hotel review, but she also gave us a whistle-stop tasting tour of the city’s eats…
There are so many things I could tell you about [...]
This week, a lot of us will be bundling kids into cars, planes or trains and taking them to whichever lucky relatives have the pleasure this Christmas – or maybe even running away from it all to a hotel. To help avoid any ‘are we there yet?’-inspired infanticide, we asked Kayt Sukel, writer, mother, Smith [...]
No one has her fingers wrapped quite so tightly around the London fashion pulse as Smith’s roving stylista Toni Jones. Here’s her latest despatch from the front line…
Barbed wire is the latest precious metal. The prickly sheep-snaggler synonymous with prison blocks and Pammy Anderson is an unlikely style hero, but Burberry’s new barbed-wire jewellery collection [...]
