If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Geotagging yourself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is no longer cutting it. These days, refined travelers are turning to something a bit less tacky and a bit more tasteful when it comes to flaunting their globetrotting, Amex Platinum–having, passport stamp–collecting pursuits — by wearing that frequent-traveler status, quite literally, on their sleeves. We’re talking about the intimate, and relatively new, marriage between the world’s top hotels and luxury designers, which over the years has served a few key purposes: helping a particular resort’s top one percent of loyalists identify each other from Ibiza to Innsbruck and sending guests home with a more sophisticated souvenir than a fridge magnet, all while feeding into the universal obsession with collectibles (all the better if the items are mar...
Queen Letizia of Spain revived one of her Hugo Boss dresses for the 15th anniversary of Ethic magazine at Ortega-Marañón foundation headquarters in Madrid on Thursday. The queen consort wore a jade tone sleeveless dress with a belted waisted and exposed seams. The midi dress was crafted with a rounded neckline and visible seams down the front and sides of the piece, which carried through to the skirt of the look. Queen Letizia of Spain WireImage A black buckle belted waist provided silhouette definition for the modern dress, which included a slight slit at the center-front of the skirt. Illusion flap pockets also added further contemporary elements that served to elongate the dress with straight lines. Other elements of Queen Letizia’s attire for Thursday’s outing in Madrid included a pair of slingback pointed toe kitten heels in black and the Carolina H...