Ever felt your inner self is at odds with your surroundings? Ever wondered if your true home and people are waiting for you somewhere, out there? Well, we’ve heard your subconscious cries, and we’ve come to the rescue. Read on to discover your spirit city aka which global destination your soul should really be calling home…
Paris
The sound of a popping champagne cork always brings a smile, you’re never fully dressed without kohl eyeliner, and Carine Roitfeld is your demigoddess. You fantasise about spending days sashaying around antique markets, and the evenings are torn between sampling rich, traditional gastronomy or more subtle, locavore palate-pleasing bites. Moody garage rock is your jam… Paris, in all its hyper-fashionable, gritty-glam beauty is your spiritual home.
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Barcelona
Fun and fruity, creative and design savvy, you’re always packing an old-fash camera to capture those riotous, Sangria-tinged disco moments and meandering city ambles. You’re all about bold and punchy energy, be it in your look, on your plate or in your surroundings. You like variety, colour and beauty, and thus zingy Spanish glamazon Barcelona is where your heart truly resides.
Beautiful, mysterious blue-skied bombshell Barcelona is at your fingertips with a LUXE City Guide…
New York City
Ambitious, adventurous and ever on the go, your Common Projects trainers are always close at hand, because you never know where you’ll be rushing to next. You’ll take museum shuffles and street eats by day, chorus lines and dirty martinis by night, but nothing says Friday like a rock star chef’s table followed by a sold-out show complete with a sighting of your forever girl-crush, Chloe Sevigny.
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Bali
You’re all about contradictions. Slowing the pace, but getting the blood pumping; craving local simplicity, but wanting to savour the best the world has to offer; seeking wholesome respite while looking for the party. Well hold onto your coconuts, Bali is beckoning. Sunrise, and you’re on the surfboard, or yoga mat; sunset’s nigh and it’s beers, beats and bold global eats. Welcome to the lush and laidback Isle of the Gods you healthy hedonist you.
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Melbourne
Going with the flow is your innate MO and you’re a creative, on-trend, tech-savvy kitten. You’ve a diverse taste for colourful cuisines spanning pan-Asian meets So-Am, to produce-driven, mod European, but when it comes to your fashion plate, black is where it’s at. You spend your time strolling through galleries, listening to Nick Cave’s dark lyrical rock, and uncovering laneway jewels, but first… coffee.
Pick up a LUXE Melbourne Guide, probe deep and this stealthy city is yours for the taking…
London
Come rain or shine your hearty laugh, witty repartee and edgy fash foot forward add a welcome dash of character to what can sometimes be dreary proceedings. You’ve got a village heart in an urban, trench-clad exterior and a taste for fresh market fare and gastropubbery. If tea and sympathy fails, you’ll try a Bloody Mary and some blue-eyed soul, thank you. That’s right, you’re a Britannia babe from London town deep down.
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Tokyo
Everything in its right place, and everything chic, understated and stylish. To you, simplicity reigns, but more fool anyone who mistakes it for effortlessness – this is refined and cultivated minimalism. From subtly balanced, precision-mixed cocktails to clean and prettily-plated superfood to art, design, fashion, music and more. It’s all about finding beauty amidst the madness, just like your true north, Tokyo.
Kimono-ver and discover the Nippon capital with the LUXE Tokyo Guide…
Updated November 2018.
