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...It makes a change from quiet luxury. That isn’t Rousteing’s thing. “I’m just really afraid of quiet luxury and worried about it,” he says, tentatively....
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...But the hotel lobbies are good places to go if you want to just grab a quick bite – I like the Crystal Lounge in the Hermitage Hotel....
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...“Geneva being the main centre for auctions for luxury, for watches and jewellery, it makes sense to hold sales here,” says Benoît Repellin, worldwide head of jewellery at Phillips, which previously held...
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