Vanessa Threapleton-Horrocks
Blessed from birth with a macrocosmic view of the world, from her part South-American, part-English parentage, Vanessa has racked up more airmiles in visiting family and friends before reaching prep-school age, than Imelda Marcos has reheeling her evening shoes! Reheel?!
Arash Farboud
In addition to designing, building and unveiling the Farboud GTS sports car, Arash has managed to build up quite a collection of super cars. His passion for cars and racing lead him to develop his own marque which became so promising that Chris Marsh of Marcos agreed to work with Arash to put the GTS into production.
Doug Richard
Doug Richard renowned for his appearances as a judge on BBC2's TV show Dragons' Den is the founder and Chairman of Library House, and Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge Angels.
Al Fox
With the term “luxury” being used to describe more and more travel experiences these days, Al feels his mission is to separate the wheat from the chaff and discover which destinations actually live up to their promise. Highlights so far include paragliding over Swiss mountains, dining on a millionaire’s super yacht in the West Indies, and sleeping in minus six degrees in Sweden’s Ice Hotel.
David Unwin
Dave Unwin is (as well as being Lusso's Flight Editor) the Editor of Today's Pilot magazine. Dave has been flying for 20 years, and has logged around 3,800 hours in about 150 different styles.
Oliver Walston
Oliver's day job is to look after his 2000 acre farm near Cambridge, in his role as a self styled ‘barley baron’. In his large amounts of time off he enjoys writing and broadcasting about controversial farming issues, often enraging his agricultural contemporaries in the process.
Anthony ffrench-Constant
Originally a qualified architect, he is not, by birth, a motoring anorak, writing instead for those who would prefer to hear about actually living with a car rather than what you’ll find under the bonnet.
Louis Vuitton buys Yacht Manufacturer
The Louis Vuitton Group, LVMH, has purchased Dutch yacht manufacturer Royal van Lent. The yacht company make ultra high end yachts, with an average selling price of 30 million euros. The sellers are Dutch investment firm Egeria and the acquisition price is worth approximiately 11 times net profit.
Asics Inner Muscle Revolutionises Sport Clothing
High end sports clothing has recently gone down the route of tight elastic tops and shorts that initially appear about 4 sizes too small for the athlete. The theory is that the tops provide more overall support to muscles, which improves performance. Asics, a leading trainer company, has taken this technology one step further. Lusso took a look.
Topper chosen for Champion of Champions event
Topper Sailboats offer a range of 12 different boats for all abilities of sailor. They are highly regarded as having excellent construction quality and design. They have been chosen to be the craft of choice for the Endeavour Trophy at least up until 2010 and probably further into the future. Lusso have taken a closer look at this company to see how they do it.
Did Russian billionaire buy 496 million euro property?
Recently, it was reported that Villa Leopolda was sold to a Russian billionaire for just under 500 million euros. It soon revealed that Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov was behind the sale. As is the habit with Russian oligarchs, Prokhorov made his billions in precious metals. In 2007 he launched a $17 billion private investment fund, so he was definitely wealthy enough to purchase the property.
Issue 15, Available December 2008.
Travel Special
The ultimate in peace and quite. Lusso Magazine investigates the best island resorts in the world - it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.
Ultimate Toys
Super yacht tenders, powerboats, motorbikes and super cars, we serve up the usual dose of high octane machinery.
And the regulars...
Brian Ebbesen, Arash Farboud, Nick English and others all share their views
The Value for Luxury Market
“Doug,Very interested in your article on EOS and this is something I am trying to re-create ...” By Nigel Worrall 27 September 2008
