StyleChic founder Aly Scott has created two hotel packages exclusively for The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles, which will help you uncover fashion and style secrets across the city.

Aly Scott is famous for being a celebrity stylist for stars such as Scarlett Johansson, Dave Matthews and Jane Seymour, and as the former associate publisher for six different fashion magazines.

With 10 years of fashion industry experience and as the founder of StyleChic, Aly is now also working with the Ritz in Los Angeles as a personal stylist and fashion consultant. The packages she created are not just about fashion, but also about getting a taste of the glitzy and glam fashion lifestyle that stars and celebrities enjoy.

So in between trips to jewelry designers and vintage boutiques in a chauffeured luxury car, a sample StyleChic itinerary would include a champagne welcome in the VIP terrace lounge at Tods on Rodeo Drive and lunch at The Ivy in West Hollywood.

And of course, a stay at The Ritz-Carlton, with dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s WP24 Restaurant & Lounge on the hotel’s 24th floor and unwinding in The Ritz-Carlton Spa.

The 123 guestrooms and other facilities the Ritz-Carlton offers are located in Downtown Los Angeles on the upper floors of a 54-story tower which the hotel shares with the The Ritz-Carlton Residences and the JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE, steps away from the Staples Center.

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On Aug 18, 2010, Target took over 155 rooms at The Standard Hotel in New York and turned a fashion show into a show of fashion exhibitionism.

Target Fashion Spectacular at The Standard Hotel New York

The hotel’s rooms have clear see-through glass walls, so the entire show was visible from the High Line Park below. The 66 dancers showing off Target’s fall line performed a spectacular choreography in sync with flashing lights and music.

The official name of the event was Target Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular. Room rates at The Standard Hotel start from $295 per night, so Target paid around $46,000 for the rooms alone. Even assuming a bulk rate along with other services rendered, it’s still a lot of money. 

On top of that, the cost of the program itself and the lighting arrangements will surely have been even more astronomical. Composer Sam Spiegel came up with an original score for the show which required a live 30-piece orchestra, and the dance program was handled by Los Angeles based choreographer Sir Ryan Heffington.

This show also takes hotel’s penchant for see-through exhibitionism to new levels. Exactly one year ago The Standard Hotel was in hot water because people visiting or passing by in the High Line Park down below were treated to an eyeful of naked bodies clearly visible through the glass, a scene that was caught on camera and plastered all over the news.

Photo – standardny

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 The opening of the world’s first Armani brand hotel in the world’s tallest building has been delayed again – from April 21 to April 27. This time the blame lies on the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland.

Giorgio Armani & Burj Khalifa in Dubai

Apparently Giorgio Armani is unable to get to his own hotel’s opening in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, since the volcano’s eruption sent a dark cloud of volcanic ash over Europe, resulting in the cancellation of thousands of flights to and from Europe.

With the ash cloud preventing Giorgio Armani and invited guests for the opening from making it to Dubai, a spokesman for Armani Hotels & Resorts put out this statement:

“Due to the unforeseen closure of European Aerospace and the subsequent cancellation of international flights, the much anticipated grand opening of Armani Hotel Dubai has been postponed.”

Much anticipated is right, and the grand opening better be grand, after all the hype and delays.

This is the third date in the last two months that Armani Hotels and their Dubai based partners Emaar have announced for the opening of the Armani Dubai.

The launch was initially scheduled for March 18, then postponed again to April 21 because Dubai was facing some financial woes and the building apparently wasn’t as ready as they thought it was. Now they tell us its been pushed back to April 27.

Note to Armani - We understand your pain, since Dubai going bankrupt or a stupid volcano that chose this particular moment to wake up and start burping ash is absolutely not your fault.

But this dog eat the homework routine isn’t fun anymore, and if your hotel doesn’t open on April 27.. let’s just say we’re about ready to give up on the opening of the world’s first Armani Hotel which refuses to open.

Giorgio Armani photo by Jan Schroeder; Burj Khalifa picture – Joi

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New York’s fashion world finally gets what the world’s fashion capitals Paris, Milan and even Dubai already have – a fashion hotel with a creative mix of designer decor, art and cutting-edge hotel technology.

Fashion 26

Fashion 26 is a 280-room Wyndham hotel in Chelsea, located in a 22-story glass and steel tower across from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Designer Glen Coben has added some fine touches, such as the custom-designed wooden reception desk in the hotel’s lobby, made to look like a fashion studio cutting-room table.

The corridors are lined with exhibits of photography created by FIT students, topped off by the hotel’s own installation made up of spools of colored thread – a very sophisticated touch which combines both art and fashion.

Fashion 26 seems to take great pleasure in turning simple things like getting out of a car, opening a room door and eating a burger into a big production. 

The hotel has it’s own private driveway where you can pull in and out at your own sweet pace, unlike most other hotels in New York where you and your luggage get dumped on the sidewalk when you arrive or leave.

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