Fortnum & Mason’s Sailboat Chocolate is Bringing You 99% Emission-Free Luxury Chocolate

If you think things are moving too fast, then Fortnum & Mason has some news for you. They not only get their own chocolate direct from the source in the Caribbean, but they also do it on their own sailboat! That’s right, a slow-going sailboat. A luxury sailboat.

The general idea is that this helps make the brand the world’s first ’farm to store’ 99% emission-free chocolate. The project is a collaboration between Fortnum & Mason, and the Grenada Chocolate Company in partnership with Chantal Coady OBE.

In addition to the wind-powered boats delivering the chocolate made from Trinitario Cocoa beans, they also come in fully-recyclable boxes.

We’re waiting for the client option to sail on the boat in the Caribbean while eating bars of this sustainable chocolate. (hint, hint)

Fashion Film: LOUIS VUITTON’s Men’s Fall-Winter Fashion Show

Great fashion houses continue to create not just great fashion, but also great fashion films in place of their once-live fashion shows.

A perfect example is this film for Louis Vuitton’s Men’s Fall and Winter collection.

The Film is by Virgil Abloh And ‘moved By The Motion’, and stars yasiin bey, Saul Williams and Kai Isaiah Jamal. It was directed by Wu Tsang

Original Film Score by Asma Maroof.

Italian Fashion Designer FARHAD RE premieres Capsule Collection “Le dernier papillon au monde” in Paris

FARHAD RE

Roman-born designer Farhad Re debuted his newest collection in a series of artistic photographs set in a natural environment and entitled, “Le dernier papillon au monde,” which translates as the Last Butterfly in the World.

Showing now in Paris, Farhad is a darling of the European fashion set, designing elegant compositions for celebrity names such as Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Princess Soraya.

His latest collection, featuring model Tiffany Fournier, includes a poetic statement that places it in context.

Le dernier Papillon au Monde, The Last Butterfly in the World

“Faced with the disastrous state of the planet, trying to make fashion virtuous, from its production to its distribution, is no longer enough … We must scream, while nature is dying, silently.

A symbol. This is how Farhad Re wanted this capsule collection, recalling that without nature, culture would not exist. A flutter of butterfly wings capable of triggering a tornado halfway around the world? The metaphor is worn, knowing that he is the only man responsible for the annihilation of the living … What will happen then when the last wing flap of the last butterfly in the world occurs?

Hope is in art. Three months of work were necessary for each creation, entirely cut, painted and embroidered by hand … By transforming the woman in the most majestic of insects, sublime chrysalis with bright and iridescent hues, emerging from pollution like a purified renewal in creations made of silk organza and integrating recycled plastic, seeming to come alive when worn, like an extension of the flesh, – perfect fusion between the woman and what clothes her – Farhad Re wants to believe in the heralding vital forces more radiant auspices, and delivers us an essential message: beauty alone can save the world.”

 

Photography Greg Alexander for MÉPHISTOPHÉLÈS Productions
Art director Sebastien Vienne
Hair & make up Carine Larchet for Eugène Perma & LaRochePosay
Model Tiffany Fournier

DOMAINE DE TASTE Virtual Wine Tasting with R&B Cellars

Virtual Wine Tasting

Join us in tasting the new ultra limited edition wine, DOMAINE DE TASTE: The Gift, with R&B Cellars. DOMAINE DE TASTE is a collab between R&B Cellars and TasteTV, created in honor of the TASTE AWARDS

The tasting with winery founders Kevin and Barbara Brown explores the creation of the wine, the grapes and terroir, as well as the flavors and notes and food with which it pairs.

Find out more about DOMAINE DE TASTE, or get your own bottle at www.DomaineDeTaste.com. Only 100 bottles produced of this edition, The Gift

 

TasteTV Gift Guide: 4 Inexpensive Tools for the Home Office That You Can’t Believe You Didn’t Have

The Home Office has gone from a nice optional addition to a must have productivity space. To stay welcoming, comfortable and productive, it needs to organized. Even if the space is open to other areas without privacy, any way that you can reduce the feeling that there’s a bunch of junk everywhere is going to make you feel a lot better, and increase your self confidence.

The problem is that some of the easiest and obvious things we can do are often the last we get to unless prodded.

Consider this your official prodding.

D-Line White Cable Tube

You probably don’t even see them anymore, but your office is cluttered with cords. Cords from your computer, cords from your monitor, cords from your chargers, cords from your humidifier. What have we left out? It’s a cord Armageddon, but this inexpensive plastic tube works miracles. You just slip the entire bunch into it, and suddenly everything appears a lot more “under control.”

We all want a bit more control these days.

Find it on Amazon

Omoton Adjustable Cell Phone Stand

We don’t even need to explain how useful this is. Your hands and wrists will thank you, though.

Rest your phone in it facing you, and go about your daily business without constantly picking it up to check the latest news, grams or texts. The Omoton stand also comes in different sizes for different types of smartphones and tablets.

Find it Here.

Bookends

For your books.

Because you can’t just stack them everywhere.

Find them on Amazon

Office Paper Shredder:

It doesn’t need to take up all of the space on your floor, but it does need to be able securely clean up all of those private documents and credit card statements you’ve been piling up.

Find it on Amazon