Please Welcome TWL’s New UK Correspondent – Anish Bhatt!
We are delighted to announce another fantastic addition to our ever-growing editorial team here at The Watch Lounge in the form of our new UK Correspondent sapphire watches supplier Anish Bhatt!
After determining that a Pharmacology degree wasn’t really for him Anish decided to jump head first into the luxury watch market. That was more than a decade ago now and he hasn’t looked back since!
Although based in London he travels the globe regularly and has amassed a rich knowledge of many aspects of the horology business along the way which he has promised to share with us and you!
When he’s not partying with the jet set or writing for TWL Anish also runs the popular and egotistically titled (his words replica watches not ours!) Tumblr watch blog; Watch Anish. Make sure you check it out if you haven’t already but be warned glashutte replica watches it’s addictive!
Please join us again in welcoming Anish to the TWL team and keep your eyes out for some of his fresh new content in the very near future.
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With a fine jewelry collection, a shoe line, and a handful of endorsements under her belt (last night’s was a skinny metallic one), Ivanka Trump has proven herself a capable businesswoman. But judging by the bustling crowd that packed the fifth floor of Lord & Taylor last night (dad Donald and mom Ivana included), she also knows what it takes to fill a room. The occasion: the new mom’s first-ever ready-to-wear collection and runway show, hosted by Lord & Taylor president Bonnie Brooks. Trump, dressed in a bright orange top and white riding pants from her collection, told the front row that her goal was “to create a high-quality product at an affordable price, for the chic, modern, working woman.” What followed was a set of 37 predominantly neutral looks—with the occasional pop of cobalt, pink, and red—to be worn from day to night. There were work-appropriate suits and cocktail dresses, weekend-ready embroidered tunics, and tailored shorts paired with fedoras and straw wedges also of Trump’s design. Also shown were a variety of trenchcoats, some with eyelet detailing, bright coral wrap dresses, and paisley separates that are likely to appeal to an older customer. Ready-to-wear can be daunting, but Brooks proudly revealed that her new designer should have no reason to fear. She said that the line, which hovers in the $50 to $225 price range and is already on the sales floor (the collection launched exclusively at Lord & Taylor and is currently available at other retailers, including Nordstrom, Macy’s, and Ivanka’s own online boutique), has been selling briskly. Brooks also reported that Ivanka is “the number one designer search on Lordandtaylor.com.” Those are the kind of credentials—plus, of course, regular TV appearances on Dad’s program for a little message-spreading—that demand future ventures. After the show, Trump hinted at upcoming forays into fragrance, eyewear, and perhaps a children’s clothing line.—Jessica Minkoff
Karl Lagerfeld’s newest muse is model/actress/Mick Jagger baby mama Jerry Hall , who seduces a younger man and gets the quilted purse. Tough life. 
Even at the surf shop, there’s no off season. “We surf when it’s 30 degrees in January,” Saturdays Surf co-founder Morgan Collett said with a laugh at yesterday’s preview of the shop’s expanding house label. Not everyone may be so bold (or so reckless), but the Fall collection he designed with partners Josh Rosen and Colin Tunstall—the first the brand has shown, debuting exclusively on Style.com—is inspired nevertheless by “surfing in the wintertime—but keeping your NYC lifestyle.”Board short-style swim trunks are available year-round, in other words (the best here in black-on-black or navy-on-navy tonal stripe the guys call “jailbird”), but for the first time, so are outerwear pieces like shearling-lined parkas, Harrington-style Goose jackets, and knit beanies. Flannel shirts join poplins and oxfords (all subtly embroidered on the placket with the Saturdays slash); French terry sweatshirts and cotton/wool knits are a larger part of the range; and a new series of Saturdays tees joins the existing options. “In southern California, surf shops don’t have their own labels, but every one has its own T-shirt,” Collett explained. (The Saturdays T-shirts are becoming a signature piece for the shop: They were recently picked up by J.Crew, which now offers them in its Spring catalog.) The pricing remains regular-guy friendly: Outerwear tops at $325, with shirts in the $100 range and tees starting at $35.Not bad for three guys less than three seasons into their own collection. The Saturdays store, bolstered by word of mouth, New York’s revived interest in surf culture, and one of the best coffee machines on Crosby Street (the bar at the front part of the shop pulls espressos daily until 7 p.m.), is more and more a destination on the retail map; and the in-house collection is now large enough to fill it completely, pushing most of the store’s outside merchandise (Levi’s denim, Lightning Bolt tees, and sportswear by the SoCal label Riviera Club) to online-only. (It’s TBD if they’ll eventually return to the bricks-and-mortar retail space.) And next week, a second Saturdays opens: as a pop-up at the Bio-Top space of the cult Japanese boutique Adam et Ropé in Tokyo.—Matthew Schneier
After taking his show on the road to Paris the past two seasons, Zac Posen is bringing it all back home to New York. He’ll present his mainline collection at Lincoln Center on September 11, and last night, he cut the ribbon on his first-ever retail store, for the Z Spoke diffusion line, in the Meatpacking District.Measuring just 725 square feet, the space didn’t take long to fill up with a coterie of Posen muses like Coco Rocha, Crystal Renn, and Anna and Pat Cleveland. Despite its compact size, the store manages to pack in the entire Z Spoke spread, including Illesteva shades and bags that look way more expensive than their under-$700 price tags. Posen brought in storied book collector Michael Gallagher to add a few rare fashion reads to the boutique’s shelves, like Cecil Beaton’s Memoirs of the 40’s and Isabella Rossellini’s Some of Me. “I collect old issues of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and grew up haunting his store,” the designer told Style.com. Now that he’s set up his own shop, Posen can focus on putting the final touches on his namesake collection for its reintroduction to the bedlam that is NYFW. “I’m incredibly thrilled to be back,” he said. “I’m excited to appeal to the fantasy side of the American woman again.”Z Spoke by Zac Posen, 875 Washington St., NYC. For more information, visit www.zspoke.us.