Photo Books We Love: Selected Works by Vincent Peters

Vincent Peters SELECTED WORKS immediately shows you why this fashion photographer has seen a career which started at a young age and took off. His artistic trajectory has allowed him to photograph some of the most iconic and well-known celebrities, designers, actors, and models from around the world, and for some of the largest and most prestigious magazines. That is The impact of the over 200 photographs he has selected for this edition in SELECTED WORKS. Peters has mastered the art of portrait photography in black-and-white, capturing hidden facets of each subject with precise lighting and technique, whether that subject is Jon Hamm in Los Angeles or Isabeli Fontana in Paris.

Peters’ selection of Emma Watson and her shoot from London for the book’s cover is inspired. Emma not only stare directly into the camera and dares it to see her as she is, but she also takes the white powder and base of makeup and smears it around as if it doesn’t really matter what she’s wearing or who, she’s still got the shot.

One thing that is delightful about this book is that although it has the names of the subjects and where the photograph was taken, it doesn’t add a year. In that way each photograph is rendered timeless. You don’t know if Amanda Seyfried was filmed in 2005 or 2020. The same is true for John Malkovich, Cindy Crawford, and Kristen Stewart. The date is irrelevant, only the photo is.

Teneues, 978-3961712281, Hardcover, 160 Pages

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Lotus Cars Releases the new luxury Emira Model for Serious Sportscar Drivers

Lotus is launching one of its latest super fast sports cars for people who love drive at high speeds around tight corners in luxury and comfort. The name is the Lotus Emira. The new model brings a combination of high design and technology, enhanced stability, and remarkable road handling with a low centre of gravity. The car also includes a powerful AMG turbocharged 4-cylinder engine to deliver ample acceleration and power.

The Emira recently made its debut appearance in the United States with Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button as the driver. Jenson put the all-new petrol-powered sports car through its paces at Laguna Seca Raceway. Like Lotus, Jenson was in California for Monterey Car Week, the Radford 62-2 – a reinterpretation of the Lotus Type 62 to be manufactured using Lotus technology – recently received its world premiere ahead of making its public debut with the Emira on the Lotus stand at The Quail, A Motorsport Gathering.

 

The Emira is an all-new mid-engined sports car that perfectly embodies the ongoing transformation of the iconic British sports car manufacturer. Its striking design is delivering exotic supercar appeal in sports car segment, with inspiration from the Lotus Evija hypercar clear in its fluid surfaces and crisp feature lines.

Two petrol engines are available, including a new-to-Lotus 2.0-litre turbocharged ‘i4’ from technical partner AMG as well as the much-loved and characterful 3.5-litre supercharged V6 from the critically acclaimed Evora GT.

 

A choice of manual, automatic and Dual Clutch Transmission is available, with power output from 360 to 400 hp at launch. All versions will hit 0-62mph (0-100km/h) in less than 4.5 seconds.

The United States and North America are key markets for the Emira as Lotus transforms into a truly global performance car company, and Lotus retailers across the country have already seen strong demand from potential customers.

For more information visit www.LotusCars.com

 

 

Tonino Lamborghini Debuts 3 New Watches in its Luxury Product Lineup

The Tonino Lamborghini company is celebrating their 40th anniversary. The company is known for a wide range of luxury products created with a beautiful Italian flare. Founded in 1981, Tonino Lamborghini has evolved into a luxurious lifestyle company that distributes their products around the world. They are known for their accessories such as sunglasses, smartphones, and of course, luxury watches. They also have restaurants, hotels, furniture, hospitality projects, and branded beverages that are distributed in 40 different countries.

Founder Tonino Lamborghini debuts a new line of watches during the Couture Show located at the Wynn in Vegas, and the new line is sure to dazzle the audience.

Says Tonino, “In 1981, I started up my new Tonino Lamborghini Style and Accessories company. At the time, I assisted my father in the family group, but I felt the need to do something exclusively of my own, different from the world of engines. I have always been interested in design and accessories, and I took inspiration from my engineering background.”

The three types of watches that are premiering are the Spyderleggero Chrono Automatic, the Spyder Chrono Watch, and the Cuscinetto Automatic. Each design has a striking and sleek look; perfect for a person who loves style and luxury. The watches certainly make a statement and are made to be extremely high quality.

 

Spyderleggero Chrono automatic

Like the Spyderleggero Skeleton, this watch incarnates the ambitious, determined, competing, and combative personality of the Italian Tonino Lamborghini bull brand. The Chrono version with day and date complications is the Tonino Lamborghini Swiss Watches 2019/2020 line model. It summarizes all the special features of the new branded timepieces: stylistic sophistication, bold design, manufacturing research, light materials, ergonomics, and performance. The minutes and hours dials recall the image of a sandglass, epitomizing the passage of time because – as Latins used to say – “Tempus fugit” (time flies).

 

Spyder Chrono Watch

The Spyder watch, developed in 2007 by the Centro Stile Tonino Lamborghini, was created as a homage to the shield that encloses the famous “Miura raging bull” in the brand’s logo. The latest version for the new collection features a dial with a double pattern: carbon fiber in the upper half and côte de Genève in the lower one. The deployant buckle is also personalized with the Tonino Lamborghini writing and a 3D version of the Bull, present in all the sports models. 

Cuscinetto automatic

Cuscinetto dates back to 1983 when Tonino Lamborghini created one of his first watch models taking inspiration from a mechanical element, the ball bearing (in Italian, cuscinetto). He created this model using a special bidirectional rotating bezel with a design recalling the machine element that constrains relative movement to the desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts. 38 years later it has been redesigned with the case in titanium with Torx® screws and four different colour variations, mounted a new movement, and inserted a branded deployant buckle.

Find out more at https://www.lamborghini.it/

Review by Kylee Shafer

Vinfolio Creates a Program to Manage Investments in Fine Wine

 

Vinfolio, one of the country’s leading fine wine companies, recently announced the launch of a new cutting-edge fine wine investment program. Now, in addition to securing some of the most sought after wines by the bottle, Vinfolio clients can also gain access to a selection of investment-grade stock in original cases directly on the company’s e-commerce platform, or by working directly with Vinfolio’s executive team to build a bespoke fine wine investment portfolio.

“From the time of my initial investment in Vinfolio back in 2016, it seemed that the U.S. market was lacking a player who could bring the idea of fine wine as an investment opportunity to the mainstream in a clear and accessible way,” says Don St. Pierre, Executive Chairman of Vinfolio. “Now, with the addition of more than 5,000 cases of investment-grade wines to our platform and the launch of our full-service investment program, we are proudly assuming that mantle.”

“Historically speaking, fine wine has outperformed many of the traditional asset classes available and we are seeing more and more people looking to diversify by building a wine portfolio,” Vinfolio President Adam Lapierre says. “We believe we are in a unique position to support clients embarking on this journey thanks to our deep knowledge of the collectible fine wine market, unmatched global network of suppliers and innovative business model. I’m particularly excited by our full-service investment program: the process is extremely simple, fully transparent and, at the same time, low cost to the investor. It’s a game-changer.”

Vinfolio’s strength lies not just in the sourcing of fine wines at the best prices, but also in its use of technology to create a platform that provides both buyers and sellers with all the requisite tools and intelligence to successfully build and liquidate a wine portfolio. In addition to its marketplace platform, Vinfolio has proprietary access to crucial flow-data which lies at the heart of all our decision-making. The company’s algorithm dynamically looks at current U.S. retail listings, auction sale prices, and sales on its own platform to determine what is the current fair market value of a given wine. From there, Vinfolio can trigger buy or sell activities to ensure a sound investment and a healthy return.

Over the last three decades, investment-grade wine has performed very strongly against just about all major asset classes. Analysis of a representative selection of the foremost traded investment-grade wines reveals a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 11 percent since 1988. In context, the returns for U.S. Equities (DJIA), U.K. equities (FTSE), Asia equities (Hang Seng), Gold, and Oil for the same period were materially lower.

ABOUT VINFOLIO

Vinfolio is majority-owned by Executive Chairman Don St. Pierre Jr. and his business partner and good friend Allan Warburg, co-founder and co-CEO of Bestseller Fashion Group China. St. Pierre is the recipient of numerous wine industry accolades, including being named number seven on Decanter magazine’s 2011 Top 50 global wine industry power players and selected by Wine Enthusiast Magazine as the 2011 International Man of the Year. In 2012, the French government awarded St. Pierre Jr. the degree of Knight in the French Ordre du Mérite Agricole, and in 2015, he was appointed as a member of the supervisory board of Vinexpo Overseas. Vinfolio’s ownership also includes Jean-Michel Valette, who chairs the Education and Examination Board (EEB) of the Institute of Masters of Wine and is former chairman of Robert Mondavi Corporation and Peet’s Coffee, Jon Moramarco, former CEO of Constellation Brands, and Steve Case, founder of AOL and co-founder at venture capital firm Revolution

Visit https://www.vinfolio.com/wine-investing for more details on Vinfolio’s new investment initiative.

Madre Mezcal Secures $3 Million Series A Round to Grow Top Mezcal Brand

Madre Mezcal, one of the fastest growing mezcal brands in America, recently raised $3,000,000 to apply to the brand’s growth strategy to new products and new markets. The Series A round was led by Room 9, a NYC-based venture capital studio that specializes in investing in the consumer sector.

Amid an increasingly competitive mezcal category, Madre has found success through a grassroots strategy aimed at introducing new consumers to the mezcal category. With the additional funding, Madre is being poised to expand its word-of-mouth campaign, largely driven by in-person activations and online engagement. The priorities of the funded Madre brand will be to expand its product range to target new consumption occasions, while also expanding its distribution and marketing efforts in new countries, US states, and online.

“Beyond a great-tasting, easy-to-drink mezcal, Madre’s success has been a result of working closely with the communities that have driven word-of-mouth for the brand,” says Chris Stephenson, CEO of Madre. “For us to expand while continuing this successful path, we needed a partner that recognizes the cultural authenticity that fuels our approach. With Room 9, we’ve found a partner that understands the growth opportunities through product, geography and digital expansion, and encourages the brand development through cultural engagement.”

Room 9 is an early-stage venture capital studio whose selective portfolio spans across the consumer, food, beverage and technology sectors and includes Jot Coffee, Los Sundays Tequila and Cleancult. Room 9 Founder, Anish Bhatia previously led fundraising efforts for Los Sundays, an award-winning tequila brand based out of Orange County, CA, and currently sits on their Advisory Board.

About Madre
Distilled with both the newcomer and the seasoned consumer in mind, Madre is a ‘gateway mezcal that offers beautifully well-balanced flavor with smooth finish. With less smoke than most mezcals, Madre opens palates to a new market of consumers thanks to its signature blend of espadin and cuishe. Madre is a certified artisanal product from Mexico, hand made by mezcaleros in open air palanques located in the rural hills of Oaxaca. Using local water and natural airborne yeast, Madre’s flavor is directly tied to the earth it comes from. https://www.madremezcal.com/

About Room 9
Room Nine is not your typical early-stage VC. Our Creative Agency + Venture Studio model is for the misfits who create, deviants who innovate and dreamers who dare tell their stories. Our generation craves authenticity more than ever and at Room Nine we celebrate their fearless pursuit of design and culture. Room Nine’s portfolio spans across consumer, food, beverage and technology sectors. Our mission is to discover, partner with and fund authentic brands and founders.

After Meghan Markle & Prince Harry’s Amazing Oprah Interview It’s time for God Save the Queen

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah was definitely eye-openining, nay, shocking! It gives a lot more insight into the challenges of marrying royalty, and even more into being a biracial person in the British tabloid spotlight.

Perfect time we might say for this classic little ditty from the Sex Pistols, “God Save the Queen.”