| WEDNESDAY
MAY 27, 2009 |
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Aye The New |
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Missoni prepares for Edinburgh launch |
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In
an already oversaturated market, where
can you plant your flagship fashion hotel
and make a splash? With Armani Hotels
threatening to take over Milan and Dubai
(alongside Cavalli's eponymous club)
and Tommy Hilfiger in the "conceptual"
stages of hotelier-ing, Missoni have gone
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The
Edinburgh flagship for the Italian fashion
house is now taking bookings for its 136
black and white rooms. Have the purveyors
of zig-zagged colour joy lost their rainbow-bright
minds? Scotland's capital may be blessed
with more dour days than a spinster's
knickers, but it clearly hasn't sucked
the life out of Missoni's spirit.
Promising splashes of colour amongst
top interiors by the likes of Marcel Wanders
and Scot Charles Rennie Mackintosh, linens
from the Missoni Home collection, and
a proper Italian kitchen courtesy of Cucina,
Hotel Missoni is pushing warmth, comfort
and familiarity alongside huge bathrooms,
free wi-fi & premium movies, and healthy
minibar.
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Could
Scotland really be trading its 'bonny'
for a wee dose of 'bellissima'?
Today designer Missoni hotels; tomorrow
speedos, Vespas and "mwah-mwah-ciao-bella!"
You mark our words.
Hotel
Missoni - Bookings taken from
June 6, from £180
Armani
Hotels - opening in Milan 2009,
Dubai TBA
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TODAY'S
EVENT PICKS |
Wuthering
Heights hits the stage for a
balletic revival. 8pm, Linbury Studio,
Bow Street, WC2
. £7.50 - £19. |
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Engage
with power and resistance via art:
Feel
The Force. 12pm - 6pm, Café
Gallery, Southwark Park, SE16.
Free. |
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Latin
Fever courtesy of Strictly Stars.
7:30pm, Peacock Theatre, Portugal
St, WC2.
£15 - £42.50. |
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Celebrities
+ madcap DIY haute couture = House
of Diehl's Style Wars at Proud
Camden. 9pm. Chalk Farm Rd, NW1.
£10
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