Claire Adler is a journalist based in London. As well as contributing regularly to Campden FB, she writes for the Financial Times, The Spectator, Hong Kong Tatler, WGSN.com and London based magazines Canary Wharf, The City and IN London. Her work has also appeared in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Economist Intelligent Life, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and Wallpaper*.
Today’s watch collectors range from Wall Street hedgies to European royalty. So just how easy is it to start a collection?
Artist Charlotte Mann grew up around people talking about art. Her parents are both landscape painters and her brother is a photographer and film-maker. “Ever since I was a child, we’d always have an input in our father’s paintings,” she says.
From a hotel manager penning personal notes to clients to a cabaret performer spying for the British and diamond pebble massages, Claire Adler speaks to families who own some of the world’s most sumptuous spas
Opportunities for social climbing while shopping have never looked this good. While sales of expensive jewellery now take place outside the boutique, knowing your jeweller up close has become a dinner party topic all of its own.
Founded in Switzerland, the home of luxury watches, Rotary has been providing timepieces for its clientele for over a century. Claire Adler finds out about the brand’s focus on fashion,the introduction of diamonds and an elaborate treasure hunt