After announcing that Belmond’s latest train would be featured on the cover, LUXUS MAGAZINE is now revealing the contents of its new print edition, the summer issue (No. 11). This second quarterly issue focuses on travel, with a particular emphasis on slow travel. Available for pre-order now, take advantage of free shipping until July 7.
Back in winter, our columnist Hervé de Gouvion Saint Cyr announced on Luxus+ the travel trends for 2025 that he had identified at the International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM).
Our observations of the sector have confirmed his analysis, so we have devoted a large part of your magazine to wellness and, more specifically, to a fundamental phenomenon that is affecting the luxury sector and beyond: Slow Travel. This art of “traveling in slow motion”—both literally and figuratively—invites you to take the time to discover a destination with the help of the best tour operators there are: the local people.
It also means taking time for yourself, far from the pressure to do everything and see everything, and guilt-free indulging in a spa session, beauty or rejuvenating treatments, or even meditation.
In praise of slowness
“The journey is more important than the destination,” said Robert Louis Stevenson. And when it comes to Slow Travel, the author of Treasure Island, which has been a part of many children’s childhood memories, knew a thing or two. When his sweetheart left him to marry someone else and move to the New World, he decided to cross the Cévennes on a mule to forget his sad fate.
Fortunately, as our journalist Anthony Conan and our columnist Hervé de Gouvion Saint Cyr show, Slow Travel no longer has much to do with this type of ordeal and can even be extremely comfortable.
Belmond has just unveiled a luxury train, the Britannic Explorer, which is the first of its kind to travel through both England and Wales. We took the opportunity to talk to its managing director, Hendrik Huebner. As you will have gathered, sustainable travel, and train travel in particular, is a recurring theme in this issue.
Our shopping section also embraces this taste for wide open spaces and long-distance travel, featuring several legendary trains, each inviting you on an adventurous journey from Scotland to Asia via the Middle East.
Our journalist Lucile Gélébart met with Pascal Languillon, CEO of Luxe Wellness Club, an expert in this type of sustainable experience. He told us a little more about the best practices to adopt right now, as well as the destinations and establishments to prioritize.
Taking time for yourself is also the message from Swiss beauty specialist Valmont, which has just unveiled a travel kit that is as compact as it is elegant.
This long period of time is also essential for the aging of wine in the cellar. For the portrait section, Lucile Gélébart interviewed Frédéric Mairesse, CEO of Champagne Barons de Rothschild, a house celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
To help you enjoy the summer even more, our address book section has selected some of Europe’s top establishments that have developed a genuine culture of well-being.
New flavor enhancer
In terms of design and fashion, LUXUS MAGAZINE looks back at a trend – butter yellow– which can be seen on the catwalks, in shop windows (hello Jacquemus) and on the stage costumes of Sabrina Carpenter and in our homes. Omnipresent this summer—and since 2024—this butter yellow is already being presented as a new neutrality in a polarized world. In short, it’s a shimmering and effortless touch that is most welcome in light of the world’s upheavals, which our journalist Victor Gosselin has attempted to unravel without getting bogged down in details.
Meanwhile, the new consumption practices and expectations of Gen Z deserve to be decoded. Estelle Dinh, PhD in luxury management at the Glion Institute of Higher Education, takes up the challenge with her first column in our pages.
The other major topic this year is, of course, the bicentennial of a minor art form that has become a major one and, above all, the embodiment of the most opulent luxury still in existence today, which Victor Gosselin explores: Art Deco. Think of the Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby, the Chrysler Building, or the sparkling, colorful, and geometric jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels.
Revealed to the general public in 1925 at the Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, this aesthetic evokes fashion designer Paul Poiret, to whom the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is dedicating its first retrospective, as well as the Villa Noailles, home to the famous Festival d’Hyères, and bartender Frank Meier, the hero of the best-selling book The Barman of the Ritz, whose cocktail bible has finally been republished by Rizzoli. As you can see, it is this Art Deco style, which evokes memories of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker, and Tamara de Lempicka, that is at the heart of our “little story.”
Finally, this issue doesn’t forget its flagship features, with a saga devoted to Donald Trump and his family clan, a timeline devoted to Eurotunnel (we did tell you that trains were very much in evidence in this issue).
As for outings, we’re heading to the Louis Vuitton Foundation to cool off in David Hockney‘s swimming pools, listen to the latest album by Miley Cyrus, browse through Assouline’s Travel Series dedicated to the city of Rome, dance until dawn at the Tomorrowland electronic music festival (already 20 years old), or tremble in the dark with the return of the Jurassic Park saga, with Scarlett Johansson making a special appearance.
So, are you ready to make this 11th issue your faithful summer companion?
Pre-order now and enjoy free delivery until July 7.
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