CAFÉ COUTURE No place in London swings quite like Café Royal. Set in the heart of the West End a few steps from Piccadilly, the hotel has unimpeachable provenance: guests over the course of its nearly 150-year history have ranged from debauched literary luminaries – Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle – to rock-era titans, including Ziggy Stardust, who threw his retirement bash here. Our shoot took place in the newly unveiled historic suites, which interweave the hotel’s storied past with David Chipperfield’s supremely elegant contemporary design. Perched above Regent Street, the six suites offer grandeur in all its forms, from the Francophile Club Suite with its Napoleonic mouldings to the capacious Empire Suite (200sq m) and the louderthan-life Dome Suite, whose curvaceous LED-infused confines include a DJ booth. hotelcaferoyal.com 78 CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM
HAIR KEIICHIRO HIRANO/DAVID ARTISTS; MAKE-UP MARCO ANTONIO/DAVID ARTISTS; MODEL IOANNA NTENTI/OUI MANAGEMENT; DIGITAL OPERATOR BEN OTTOWEL; PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANTS JACK WILSMORE AND BONNY SADR TORY BURCH shiny silk dress featuring a botanical print KARL LAGERFELD leather jacket MAX MARA green patent leather sandals ROBERTO COIN yellow gold necklaces from the Chic & Shine collection; yellow gold ring set with yellow quartz and yellow gold ring set with fumé quartz OPPOSITE: MATTHEW WILLIAMSON wild botanical georgette embroidered gown CHOPARD white gold and diamond necklace set with a cushion-shaped rubellite tourmaline, from the High Jewellery collection MOUSSAIEFF white gold medallion bangle featuring rubies and diamonds CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM 79
