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Buying Grumpy Mule luxury Organic Sumatra Fairtrade Coffee is a great way to support one of the best ethical causes in the world plus it’s currently Fairtrade Fortnight, so no excuses now!

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Designer Henry Holland has managed to create one of Britain’s most unique luxury fashion brands over the last few years and he showed his brand new Autmun Winter 2010 collection at London Fashion Week just yesterday. It was not a disappointment!

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The famous Tanglewood Jazz Festival will be selling tickets to the public on 14 Febuary, however anticipation has led to the ticket hotline crashing and the Boston Symbony Orchestra website being overrun with record levels of traffic.

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Baby Baskett (less than two months of age), son of athlete Hank Baskett and Playmate Kendra Wilkinson will be watching the Indianapolis Colts and his NFL dad from a luxury box at the Super Bowl.  Dad, Hank told the press that altough he won’t remember the game, he will at least be present to witness his dad playing in his first Super Bowl.  Not only will he be lucky enough to watch his dad at his first game, but he gets to spend it in a luxury box reserved for VIPs.

New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week will be taking over Manhattan February  11- 18. Designers, models, photographers and fans will be crowding around Bryant Park with excitement and one common love, fashion. Designers are nervous with anticipation of the reviews written almost immediately after the last model has strutted off the runway. Will their vision seep through into the minds of the drunk with power writers who hold infinite power over their careers? Will the chosen faces and bodies representing each garment be accepted as matched properly? Once described as “hangers walking down the runway” by Karl Lagerfeld, the models are pressured to be at their thinnest, have energy, sparkle and most importantly, put on an incredible, memorable show. Don’t trip! Tickets to the main tents at Bryant Park are coveted, exclusive and rather hard to come by. Celebrities, socialites and elite fashion executives are the general crowd encompassing the audience of the runway. Photographers sit at the end of the runway, more than just snapping photos, they capture the essence of the collection and share it with the rest of the world, wishing that one day they too will be a part of the few magical moments of a runway show. Under this category, you will see hanging around the tents, tourists from all over the world, fashion students, and fans. Cameras in hand, rising at the crack of dawn, bundled up with gloves, scarfs and hot coco, these people are the heart of Bryant Park. Passion brings them loitering around the security infused tents with hopes of seeing any canvas bag holding accessories that might walk down the powerful, white catwalk. In this small square of Manhattan, during this particular week, a covered clothes rack is more than a clothes rack. It’s a secret only a small, exclusive society of people, sworn to secrecy, have had the privilege  to preview. And in just hours, minutes, seconds, it will be exposed and become vulnerable to the scrutiny of the entire world. A picture of a covered clothes rack pushed by a man with crazy hair and black, skinny jeans means nothing. A picture of a covered clothes rack pushed by a man with crazy hair and black, skinny jeans up the steps of Bryant Park during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion week is a dream about to be unveiled for the world to judge. Excited? I am.

Premium beauty brand Clinique have just launched their biggest counter ever at world famous department store Selfridges.

There’s a whopping 880 square foot space dedicated to all things Clinique in store now and it’s a shopping experience to beat all others!

No longer are the Clinique wonder products hidden away behind a counter they are now on display where you can pick them up and test them of your own free will.

There are also fabulous free consultations with fully trained Clinique professionals on offer. This service is ideal if you’d like fresher brighter skin but you’re not sure of your skin type!

The new space is all about providing a bespoke beauty service to customers. Clinique say “This new shopping experience will provide customers with a one-of-a-kind, custom fit experience. New features will include Clinique’s diagnostic consultation areas which feature Clinique’s two way mirrors, makeup bars that encourage consumers to test and select products on their own and stand-alone makeup and skin care browsing areas.”

So 40 years on from the very start of Clinique they are still up there at the forefront of revolutionary products and services.

You can click here to shop the whole Clinique range of perfumes, skin care and make up online.

Miss Moss is back for another season with her Autumn and Winter Collection, which is going on sale in Topshop 27th August. The model and designer has been successful since collaborating with high street flagship store Topshop, and her Autumn/Winter collection is set to be flying off the rails. The collection embraces everything 80’s inspired with heaps of glamour. On sale will be pieces such as statement fur coats, beautiful butterfly prints on floaty fabric, and black slinky dresses embracing rock chic. The garments are flawless, and absolutely stunning. and in my opinion her best collection to date.

The Maltese Artist, Count Amadeo Preziosi (1816-1882) produced a stunning sketchbook from 1875 whilst on his travels from Constantinople amid France and Italy to Malta. The paintings capture seascapes to landscapes, and encompass everything feminine and beautiful. The intimate collection of 80 watercolours are entitled ‘Souvenir de mon dernier voyage’ and it is on sale, courtesy of company Bohams on the 16 September in New Bond Street, sure to be purchased for between £320,000-500,000.

Absolutely, stunning motor cars once owned by well known names, are being auctioned in Calafornia by company Bonhams. The cars are very much classical by nature and golden in price, and includes a beautiful 1939 Auto Union model belonging to deceased German racing car driver Hans Stuck. Others among the rare collection are  Frank Sinatra’s 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, and the most glamorous piece being the 1933 Duesenberg Model J Torpedo Victoria Convertible, which was first cruised in by the famous ‘Hopalong Cassidy’. This is a once in a lifetime auction, oozing stylish and classical history.

Italy’s Lottery game know as the Suprenalotto declares it’s first winner, as a male from Tuscany who won £127 million. There was a One in 622 million chance to match all 6 numbers to claim the million pound jackpot. Italy has been receiving a lot of attention since the opening of the Suprenalotto, at the beginning of this year, and the interest has generated over £1.7 billion.