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As is customary every August, Lyst Index has published the ranking of the most desired brands for this second four-month period, showing slight changes in consumer tastes and the appeal of each brand. Chanel maintains the leadership of this ranking, fueled by the excitement sparked by Matthieu Blazy. The launch of its Coco Beach and Métiers d’Arts 2026 collections has helped maintain interest in the French house, while searches on Lyst for Chanel sunglasses grew by more than 70 percent in the last quarter.

Imagine boarding a high-speed train and seeing how, in just a few hours, the landscape transforms into the blue of the Mediterranean, without effort or overcoming fatigue at the wheel. On board iryo, with spacious areas, gastronomy, and flexible schedules, the journey becomes the best option to start the holidays and access many of Spain’s holiday destinations. Now imagine that the destination you are heading to is Tarragona and its Costa Dorada, with so many places to discover and so many experiences to live in this area of the Catalan coast. There, the fine sand takes on a characteristic golden tone under the sun; hence its name.

There are few places capable of combining the idyllic image of kilometers of white sandy beach and a sea of crystal-clear waters with the vibrant atmosphere of beach clubs, restaurants, and chiringuitos like Playa d’en Bossa, in Eivissa.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that almost everything happens in Mallorca. Because, as photographer Ricardo Labougle observes, the largest of the Balearic Islands “is almost like a continent.” The truth is that the island has mountains that are covered in snow in winter and turquoise water beaches that are nothing to envy those of the Caribbean. In addition to cliffs, bays, capes, valleys, plains, tiny villages, and cities as splendid as Palma. But above all, Mallorca, as Labougle points out, “possesses an exceptional cultural richness, the fruit of a legacy of centuries of invasions and different inhabitants. It has always been the richest and most important of the archipelago and its architectural identity is a world apart: Palma, dominated by its great Gothic cathedral. The feudal ‘possessions’. The monasteries, such as Valldemossa and Lluc. The gardens… The feeling is that the entire Mediterranean has passed through there,” explains the photographer in a telephone conversation with the Magazine.

At eight in the evening, in a multi-purpose space of the Federació d’Entitats Calàbria 66 in Barcelona, about fifty men meet every Wednesday to sing. In recent months, they have been preparing Shampoo, a musical with which the Barcelona Gay Men’s Chorus occupied the stage of the Teatre Condal until June 21. In the room, accents from half a dozen countries resonate, a pair of singers rehearses an acrobatic figure à la Dirty Dancing next to a man with a plastered arm who didn’t want to miss the rehearsal.

Jannah Britt-Green had been in the Maldives for just under a month when she met Gianluca Benedetti. They quickly connected thanks to their common interests on the island, located approximately a thousand kilometers from Sri Lanka. Both were passionate about classical literature and chess, as well as being far from home —Italy, in Benedetti’s case, and anywhere in the world in Britt-Green’s, who grew up between Mexico, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, although today she divides her life between Barcelona and Menorca—. They felt they could understand each other and empathized with the demands of each other’s work.

A mantle of flowers dresses these days the most exclusive beach club on Larvotto beach, in Monte Carlo. It features daisies, chrysanthemums, roses, and poppies on a white background that envelops, with its celebration of spring, deck chairs, umbrellas, and tableware. The Flora print represents that implosion of gucciness that Demna Gvasalia so much celebrates and analyzes in every design he creates for the luxury brand since his appointment as creative director, in 2025.

Agreeing on the time to determine which is the most beautiful town in an area is not an easy task. Numerous conditions participate in the choice, although the subjective factor – the perception of beauty is something totally personal – is conclusive.

It is eight in the morning and the door of Dr. Joan Ramon Garcés at the Institut Dermatologia Garcés de la Teknon opens right on time. He prepares coffee. He is an empathetic, decisive, and cultured man, who lives in peace and is comfortable with himself. He says casually that he always sleeps through the night. Healthy envy. His face and gestures answer the questions before his voice does.

In summer, slowing down and letting go has become a priority. More and more, we seek quiet corners that evoke the essence of the Mediterranean; those magnetic terraces where you can enjoy without hurry, sharing moments and laughter under the light of the sunset.