Burberry launches travel line of menswear

Burberry has unveiled a new menswear offer — suits designed for men who travel. Burberry describes it as “a new type of tailoring,” with a focus on the travel consumer who wants to look sharp on the go.

The new suits feature “innovative lightweight construction” (the front panels of the suit), “lightweight shoulder construction,” and “naturally flexible fabrics.”

In reality the suit jacket has been designed to sit like a normal blazer, but with more modern canvassing, lending extra flexibility and rotation in the shoulder. The suits also feature a new Italian ‘memory fabric’, a 100% merino wool specially woven to resist creases and crumples.

Prices for the line start at $1,995 for the two-piece suits, with blazers available from $1,295.

Burberry is launching Travel Tailoring with a global digital campaign, shot in London. The brand has released a video which shows off some of the more innovative aspects, as well as an interactive online experience which allows you to explore the suits in more detail.

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The Macallan M Scotch Whisky released at $4,500 a bottle

The Macallan M, a rare, limited-edition bottle of single malt Scotch has been launched in the United States. To get a bottle of The Macallan M you’ll need to fork over $4,500.

The bottle is a collaboration of designer Fabien Baron, Lalique crystal, and Macallan, with Baron designing the whisky’s stunning crystal decanter. Each bottle is numbered and presented in a specially designed case. Only 1,750 decanters are to be released this year.

If you don’t fancy ponying up $4,500 for The Macallan M, you can always find it in a high-end whisky bar or restaurant where a 2-ounce pour will cost you about $300.

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Lamborghini Veneno Roadster unveiled

Lamborghini has unveiled the first details and images of the new Veneno Roadster. The Roadster is a convertible version of the Veneno coupe first revealed at the 2013 Geneva Motor show.

The Roadster is virtually identical to the coupe with a 6.5-liter V-12 that produces 740 horsepower. It will go from 0-62 mph in just 2.9 seconds. It has top speed of 220 mph. The car weighs 3,285 pounds, and has an all-wheel drive system.

Lamborghini is planning on building nine Veneno Roadsters, each priced at $4.5 million.

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Violin played as Titanic sank sold at auction for $1.45 million

The violin played by the bandmaster of the Titanic to calm passengers as it sank sold at auction for $1.45 million on Saturday, a world record fee for memorabilia from the doomed liner. The instrument belonging to Wallace Hartley was found strapped to his body after he drowned with his seven bandmates and some 1,500 others on board the supposedly unsinkable ship in 1912. It was sold to a British collector after a feverish 10-minute battle between telephone bidders at Titanic specialist auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, southwest England.

The instrument carries an inscription from the 33-year-old’s fiancee Maria Robinson to mark their engagement and was sold with its leather luggage case, initialled W.H.H, in which it was found. For decades the violin was believed lost but it was found in the attic of a house in northwest England in 2006, prompting a debate about its authenticity, which experts only recently resolved.

“We’re absolutely overjoyed,” Christine Aldridge, a spokeswoman for the auction house, said.

“It was sold to a UK collector who was bidding by telephone. The whole sale only took about 10 minutes.”

She said the final price including premiums paid to the auction house was £1,050,030.

Hartley’s band played the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” to try to calm passengers while they climbed into lifeboats as the Titanic sank beneath the icy waves in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg.

Hartley and his seven fellow band members all died after choosing to play on.

Bidding started at just £50 for the violin, with principal auctioneer Alan Aldridge joking that he was setting the price so low so that two of his friends could bid.

But within a few minutes it had passed the previous world record of £220,000 for a Titanic piece as competition between four telephone bidders hotted up.

There were gasps from the 200 people at the auction house as the price reached £350,000 and then a tense silence as the battle for the instrument narrowed to two telephone bidders.

It had a reserve price of £200,000 to £300,000.

‘He knew there would be no lifeboats’

Andrew Aldridge, a valuer with the auctioneer, said he hoped the violin would stay in Britain and go on exhibition.

“It symbolises love, with a young man strapping it to his body because it was an engagement present from his fiancee,” he said.

“It also epitomises bravery. He knew there would be no lifeboats. It symbolises everything that’s good about people, not just Wallace Hartley and his band, but all the men, women and children who lost their lives.”

Hartley was given the maple, spruce and ebony violin by his fiancee in 1910.

She had a silver plaque fixed to the instrument engraved with the words: “For Wallace, on the occasion of our engagement. From Maria.”

It is now thought that the instrument was inside a leather bag that was found strapped to his body 10 days after the sinking, and was then passed to Robinson.

Robinson never married and after her death in 1939, her sister donated the violin to her local Salvation Army band, where it passed to a music teacher and then the unnamed owner in whose house it was discovered in Lancashire, northwest England.

After seven years of testing including MRI scans, researchers said in March this year that the instrument was genuine.

It has already been on show at Titanic Branson and Titanic Pigeon Forge in the United States, the largest Titanic museums in the world, and later at Titanic Belfast, a tourist site in Northern Ireland.

The Titanic was built in Belfast and set sail from Southampton, southern England, for New York on April 10, 1912, before hitting an iceberg days later.

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Nicki Minaj’s Lamborghini Aventador gets a pink makeover

This is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness which highlights Pink as the color of the moment. But that has nothing to do with Nicki Minaj posing in her bright pink Lamborghini Aventador.

The head-turning four-wheel beast was given a flashy pink makeover to co-inside with the launch of her eponymous clothing line for Kmart. The rapper cruised in her $400,000 pink Lamborghini Aventador which is the latest addition to her pink fleet of supercars like Bentley Continental and Range Rover.

The lady arrived at the L.A. venue and generously posed, pouting and grinning, with her pink lambo with complementing custom Forgiato wheels to grab attention. Renowned for outlandish style, the songstress offset the bubblegum pink overdose by wearing a tiny blue blazer with a pair of black high-waisted leggings and added bling with a gold-chained belt.

The singer hopped in the pinked-out car along with her boyfriend Safaree tagging behind in a red Mercedes. She even dared to grab the attention of the police as she rode in and out of the location with Barbie-hued gull-wing doors open.

However, Nicki will get our thumbs up for daring to paint her supercar pink if she donates it for auction to raise funds to help breast cancer victims.

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Have you ever heard of Coodo Mobile living?

The relatively new company, known by many as Company Coodo Mobile Living, is breaking into the world of mobile living, interesting people who want to travel the world while not remaining stuck in hotel rooms all the time.

Coodo Mobile believes that the best way to counteract the effects of stress, due to modern day living, can be found in living closer to nature… and what better way than to live in a mobile home, tucked away in the woods or in a field? Coodo Mobile Living provides its clientele with seven versions of the Coodo Series. Two hollowed-out series are named Pergola and Pavilion, both available in 10 and 16 square meters. The last model, deemed the most luxurious of them all, is the water coodo which works both as a houseboat and is attached to a pontoon… more on that later.
Every model can be customized to satisfy certain clients’ requirements, and land-based products can be stacked up to three condos high. Here is a breakdown of the best products presented by Company Coodo Mobile Living.

First off is the Coodo Pergola, available with wooden ceilings and floors. The Coodo Pergola can be bought for $49,800 or $13,500 (depending on measurement sizes and materials used). As for Coodo Pavilion, it is made with fiber-reinforced plastic and is perfect for customers who seek outdoor leisure and display versions. The Coodo Pavilion can be acquired for $19,500 or for $25,500, again depending on measurement requirements. As for Coodo 24, it can be used as a guest house, a garden shed or as an office space. Coodo 24 can be attained for prices ranging between $65, 800 and $82,000. This model is land-based.

Coodo 32 offers a variety of benefits, such as a space that can accommodate up to two people, includes a bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, an extendable sofa ideal for over-night guests, and is made of fiber-reinforced plastic. Coodo 32 can be bought for $99,000. This model is also land-based. As for Coodo 47, this option can comfortably house two to four people, has a larger living and sleeping space, and once again is made with fiber-reinforced materials. Coodo 47 is priced at $122,000.

Now on to Coodo 55. Coodo 55 is the largest condo of all the products, with two bedrooms, a living room, and a dining room. Compared to the other models, Coodo 55 is the most luxurious and prestigious of them all and comes at $135,000. What about Coodo 32? This model is the afore-mentioned watercoodo. Placed on a waterlogged platform, the model is perfect for a couple (in other words, two people). Watercoodo versions come between $165,000 and $190,000, once again depending on what customers necessitate.

So far, the Coodo Mobile homes have attained widespread success. In Russia, the homes have been used as private vacation homes, while some of the company’s Pergolas have been employed as information booths at Barclay’s Summertime Festival located in Hyde Park, London. Currently, the company is going back to the drawing board to brainstorm more and more ideas about better and more versatile homes which should suit numerous purposes. The new homes should have rooftop sales or an exhibit office, a retreat community, as well as an artists’ studio and a vacation home.

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