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Welcome to the
influencer airline
Instafabulous? Well, welcome to Willa Air, the new
airline solely for influencers — soz, plebs. On its
maiden flight last weekend it flew to (where else)
Coachella: home of flower crowns, ripped denim
and cultural appropriation. Experiential perks
(for the slim cargo of 12 passengers) included
a champagne breakfast (possibly wall-to-wall
avocado toast?) and festival recovery with IV
vitamin drips in the company lounge in Venice
Beach. “We launched Willa Air to provide
superfast and convenient travel for the content
creators who are jetting off to events across the
US,” says the co-founder Aron Levin. And if the
term “content creators” hasn’t got you reaching for
the glue gun, the promo video is chock full of social
media bêtes noires from the Keeping Up with the
Kardashians playbook: blinding white teeth,
millennial pink sunsets and platters of grapes. Yikes.All hail horticore!
There’s only one waiting list that’s harder to get
on than the one for the Birkin bag: an allotment. So
it’s no wonder gardening has inspired the latest
high-fashion trend: horticore. At Chanel it was all
chunky cardies (for brisk mornings en plein air) and
trousers tucked into wellies. Isabel Marant layered
dungarees over prairie blouses and fluffy jumpers,
Ferragamo luxed up the boiler suit, and khaki utility
jackets (with pockets for gardening kit) spread faster
than an aphid swarm. For real-world inspiration,
follow stylish gardeners (compost binfluencers, if
you will) @thehackneygardener, @poppyokotcha
(above left) and @kittengraysonflowers —
the latter is collaborating with Grenson on a floral
gardening boot (out in May).The dinner party power
move: sorbet alfresco
As the weather turns, so should your dinner
party menu: the happiest endings are
summery sorbets. Out on May 5, The Last Bite
by Anna Higham (Dorling Kindersley £22),
executive pastry chef at the River Café, has
sorbet recipes galore: the stone fruit (below) is
a winner, and the nebbiolo will impress foodie
guests. If you don’t have an ice-cream maker,
try her granitas — mulberry or clementine.
Elsewhere, follow @lagrottaices for surprising
flavour combinations by the ice-cream wizard
Kitty Travers (her book, La Grotta Ices, is a
marvel too). Serve your sorbet in a
hollowed-out fruit, like the
much-Instagrammed
orange at the cool
London restaurant
Sessions Arts Club.The Barometer
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