23 February, 2012
Travel

Four stylish hotels fit for any fashionista!

23 February, 2012

With London Fashion Week just over, Milan in full swing, and Paris set to preen next week, boutique hotel experts Mr & Mrs Smith tip you four of the most fashion-forward places to bed down. So, if the catwalk looks streaming in from New York and London Fashion Week have sent you weak at the knees, grab your Louis Vuitton luggage kit and book a style-savvy stay in one of the worldโ€™s couture capitals.

Crosby Street Hotel, New York
Style
Plucky charm
Setting
Cobbled SoHo streets

British interiors whiz Kit Kemp has brought her kitsch-but-classy, classic-meets-contemporary English elegance Stateside, with Crosby Street Hotel in New York. Decked out in a quirky mix of textured wall coverings, lavish fabrics and colourful artworks, the 86 rooms are a favourite among fashionistas, who flock to this SoHo hot spot. Manhattanโ€™s style set mingles here for everything from champagne breakfasts and evening martinis to private film screenings in the basement-level cinema. The socialising spills out onto a patio on Lafayette Street, lending the whole place an enviable, in-the-know buzz.

The Metropolitan London, London
Style
Heights of fashion
Setting
Pride of park-side Mayfair

With its prime position overlooking Hyde Park, The Metropolitan London boutique hotel has become a byword for stylish stays in the capital. A capsule of contemporary cool, this 144-room bolthole flaunts jaw-dropping views through floor-to-ceiling windows, offering priceless parkland snapshots that cry out for an Instagram upload. If you can tear yourself away from those vistas, see-and-be-seen dining and drinking dens beckon, including sleek Japanese fine diner Nobu and the recently refurbished Met Bar, an intimate, sexy space with wow-worthy cocktails. The location is also handy for shopping jaunts to fashion-fabulous department stores Selfridges and Harvey Nichols.

Maison Moschino, Milan
Style
Fanciful fashion house
Setting
Cosmopolitan Corso Como

Label lovers need look no further than Maison Moschino hotel in Milan for a fashionable crash-pad. Housed in the cityโ€™s first rail station, with haute-couture allure and deliciously avant-garde decor, this dreamy destination is home to 65 rooms with fairy-tale themes such as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella. The left-of-centre design aesthetic continues in the starkly sleek restaurant, Il Clandestino Milano, and the chic bar by the reception area, where marble floors and metal stools are offset by lights crafted from stiletto boots. Donโ€™t miss cool concept store 10 Corso Como nearby, Carla Sozzaniโ€™s cutting-edge boutique, cafe and art gallery.

Hotel le Bellechasse, Paris
Style
Luxuriously Lacroix
Setting
Lively Left Bank

Flamboyantly styled by French fashion legend Christian Lacroix, Hotel le Bellechasse in Paris sits pretty in St Germain, just a skip from the Musee dโ€™Orsay. As youโ€™d expect from the daring designer, the interiors are lavish-luxe, with a heady blend of gold leaf, zebra print, butterfly wallpaper and mesmerising murals. While youโ€™ll want to pack your finest threads for sashaying around here, you can forget trying to squeeze into a model-esque size zero after a breakfast of rolls, pastries, fruit, scrambled eggs and freshly squeezed juice, served in the charming breakfast room or your bold and beautiful boudoir.

To book any of Mr & Mrs Smithโ€™s stylish boutique hotels, visit www.mrandmrssmith.com or call the expert Travel Team on 800 905 326. Whatโ€™s more, BlackSmith membership is now free for life, so sign up today to receive life-enhancing extras and exclusive offers at more than 850 hotels and holiday houses around the world.

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