Centurion Australia Summer 2013

HOTELS EUROPE Grand

HOTELS EUROPE Grand Hotel Europe, St Petersburg, Russia Grand Hotel Timeo, Sicily, Italy Hotel Caruso, Ravello, Italy Hotel Cipriani, Venice, Italy Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz, France Hotel Ritz, Madrid, Spain Hotel Splendido and Splendido Mare, Portofino, Italy La Residencia, Mallorca, Spain Reid’s Palace, Madeira, Portugal Villa San Michele, Florence, Italy Villa Sant’Andrea, Sicily, Italy NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Casa de Sierra Nevada, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Charleston Place, South Carolina, USA El Encanto, Santa Barbara, California, USA The Inn at Perry Cabin, Maryland, USA La Samanna, St Martin, French West Indies Maroma Resort and Spa, Riviera Maya, Mexico AFRICA Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa SOUTH AMERICA Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hotel das Cataratas, Iguassu Falls, Brazil Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge, Machu Picchu, Peru Hotel Monasterio, Cusco, Peru Palacio Nazarenas, Cusco, Peru Hotel Rio Sagrado, Urubamba, Sacred Valley, Peru Miraflores Park Hotel, Lima, Peru ASIA Jimbaran Puri Bali, Bali, Indonesia La Résidence d’Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia La Résidence Phou Vao, Luang Prabang, Laos Napasai, Koh Samui, Thailand Ubud Hanging Gardens, Bali, Indonesia TRAINS & CRUISES Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, Europe Afloat in France, Burgundy and Canal du Midi The Royal Scotsman, Scotland Eastern & Oriental Express, Asia For more information or to make a booking, please call Centurion Travel on 1800 23 1889 OFFER TERMS AND CONDITIONS US00 credit is available for new bookings and travel from 1 October 2013 to 30 June 2014. A minimum stay of one night applies to hotel bookings and on journeys. Blackout dates apply and vary by property. Visit americanexpress.com.au/centurion or call Centurion Travel on 1800 23 1889 for full list of blackout dates and terms and conditions. Reservations are subject to availability and must be made in advance through Centurion Travel Services prior to arrival. Hotel credit of USD0 will be deducted from the Centurion members’ folio at time of check out. Train and Cruise credit of USD00 will be deducted at time of final payment. Credit is applicable on all room and cabin categories. No refund will be given to any unused portion of the credit. One redemption permitted per Centurion account during full duration of campaign. Valid only for Centurion members in selected markets. Offer is non-transferable and may not be redeemed for cash. Payment for the reservation must be made with an American Express Centurion Card under the Centurion member’s name. Offer includes all tax and mandatory service/administrative charges. Offer is valid for new bookings only. Offer is not valid for groups or conventions and may not be combined with other select offers, other than those expressly set forth in this agreement. Cancellation policies will apply according to the booking conditions. No back to back bookings and not combinable with other Centurion bookings redeemed jointly. *Blackout dates: Casa de Sierra Nevada: 28 December 2013 to 6 January 2014.Charleston Place: 28, 29, 30 and 31 December 2013; 14, 15, 27, 28 February 2014; 1 and 2 March 2014; 4, 5, 11, 12 April 2014; 9, 10, 23, 24 May 2014. Copacabana Palace: 28 to 31 December 2013; 1 and 2 January 2014; 28 February 2014 to 5 March 2014; 12 June 2014 to 13 July 2014. El Encanto: 29 and 30 November 2013; 24 December 2013 to 1 January 2014; 23 to 25 May 2014; 14 and 15 June 2014. Grand Hotel Europe: 29 December 2013 to 2 January 2014. Hôtel du Palais 31 December 2013. Hotel das Cataratas: 24 and 25 December 2013; 28 to 31 December 2013; 1 and 2 January 2014; 28 February to 5 March 2014; 19 to 21 April 2014. Hotel Monasterio: 20 December 2013 to 2 January 2014. Hotel Rio Sagrado: 20 December 2013 to 2 January 2014. Hotel Ritz, Madrid: 8 to 12 October 2013; 9 and 10 December 2013; 28 December 2013 to 1 January 2014. Jimbaran Puri Bali: 24 December 2013 to 2 January 2014; 28 January 2013 to 7 February 2014; 18 to 20 April 2014. La Résidence d’Angkor: 24 December 2013 to 2 January 2014; 28 January 2014 to 7 February 2014; 18 to 20 April 2014. La Résidence Phou Vao: 24 December 2013 to 2 January 2014; 28 January 2014 to 7 February 2014; 18 to 20 April 2014. La Samanna: 20 December 2013 to 2 January 2014. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons: 24, 25, 30, 31 December 2013. Machu Picchu Sancturary Lodge: 20 December 2013 to 2 January 2014. Maroma Resort and Spa: 20 December 2013 to 2 January 2014. Miraflores Park Hotel: 1 December 2013 to 31 March 2014. Mount Nelson Hotel: 22 December 2013 to 2 January 2014; 31 January 2014 to 17 February 2014. Napasai: 24 December 2013 to 2 January 2014; 28 January 2013 to 7 February 2014; 18 to 20 April 2014. Palacio Nazarenas: 20 December 2013 to 2 January 2014. Reid’s Palace: 26 to 29 October 2013; 29 December 2013 to 5 January 2014. Ubud Hanging Gardens: 24 December to 2 January 2014; 28 January 2013 to 7 February 2014; 18 to 20 April 2014. FINE HOTELS & RESORTS CENTURION HOTEL PROGRAMME TERMS AND CONDITIONS Member must travel on itinerary booked. Noon check-in and room upgrade based on availability. Certain room categories are not eligible for room upgrade; call Centurion Travel Service for details. Breakfast amenity varies by property, but will be at minimum a continental breakfast. Benefit restrictions vary by hotel and cannot be redeemed for cash, and may not be combined with other offers unless indicated. Benefits and promotions are applied at checkout and expire at check out. Limit one benefit package per room, per stay. Three room limit per Cardmember, per stay; back-to back stays within a 24-hour period at the same property considered one stay. Participating providers and benefits subject to change. Exclusive confirmed room upgrade at time of reservation subject to availability and replaces FINE HOTELS & RESORTS room upgrade at time of check-in. Orient-Express Hotels Gift Vouchers cannot be used as a credit toward or payment for the Centurion member’s accommodations. Travel services provided by American Express International, Inc. ABN 15 000 618 208. Incorporated with limited liability in Delaware, USA. Licensed Travel Agent, 12 Shelley Street, Sydney NSW. Licence No. ACT - 18800682, NSW - 2TA000113, VIC – TA-30233, QLD- 3497079, SA - 214584, WA - 9TA81, TAS - TAS064. Credit provided by American Express Australia Limited (ABN 92 108 952 085). ®Registered Trademark of American Express Company

STYLE & BEAUTY A SEASONAL COMPENDIUM TO SARTORIAL FLAIR, ENCHANTING JEWELS AND HAUTE-HORLOGERIE On the palazzo’s upper terrace; the streets of Scicli; owners Farida Khelfa, couture director for the revived house of Schiaparelli; right: a sketch from Christian Lacroix’s homage collection to the designer Photos from left: Christophe roué, © schiaparelli High design A revival in Paris After nearly 60 years of silence, the house of Schiaparelli has returned to the couture scene – with big ambitions. By Avril Groom The scene inside Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs last July was like an emotional reunion. Christian Lacroix, one of the great talents of French fashion (who paradoxically no longer designs a commercial collection of his own) was receiving plaudits from friends and colleagues for designing the extraordinarily beautiful clothes displayed next to him – bright coats and matador jackets extravagantly beaded in black, billowing taffeta trousers and puffed-up peplums, boldly striped monochrome evening gowns and surreal fox fur hats shaped like cones or pompoms. Though the designs had all of Lacroix’s verve, they also echoed the long extinct work of Elsa Schiaparelli, a mould-breaking force in Paris couture during the 1930s, best known for her championing of shocking pink as a serious shade (lobster hats et al), and friend and collaborator of artists such as Dalí and Cocteau. Lacroix’s interpretations were the first clothes revealed in the long and muchanticipated rebirth of Schiaparelli, and although they were shown during CENTURION-Magazine.COM 65