JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. The team were chosen both as they are friends of the brand and also because they were interesting, sartorially sophisticated and accomplished men. The hotel has received plenty of attention and plaudits of late as it is very difficult to find modern hotels which seek to both be modern but also retain the most treasured traditions of old-fashioned hospitality.
The dress code was Timeless Elegance, and we all took it seriously. We headed for the Croisette and up to the penthouse of the Martinez where Chopard have their HQ for the festival, for an evening hosted by Caroline and Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, and catered by Cipriani of Venice, with an exhibition of tailoring by Lorenzo Cifonelli.
The food was the Cipriani favourites, from beef carpaccio to their famous vanilla meringue cake. The festival has only just started but it began in the most tasteful possible way, and The Rake were proud to play our part. The store will not work correctly when cookies are disabled. About Subscribe Select Country. Editorial Similar Articles.
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