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from left: Our party at Palazzo's fabulous Azure pool was an incredible success, made better by good friends like Kenny Ebalo, Alison Waite, and Rachael and Shane Sigsbee. Le Doux swimwear owner and
designer Juliana Renz helped Editor-in-Chief Andrea Bennett and me celebrate that terrific night.
As I wrIte thIs letter,
I'm sitting in Mandarin Oriental's
serene 23rd-f loor sky lobby, with its
unobstructed view up the Las Vegas
Strip. It is at moments like this,
when I'm afforded a bird's-eye view
of the developments in our city, that
I get to ref lect on just how exciting a
time this is for Las Vegas. Recently I
attended the blowout opening of
SLS, which promises to reinvigorate
the north end of the Strip, and I'm
watching workers place the last
letters of the Delano sign on top of
the new hotel (formerly THEhotel at
Mandalay Bay). Made L .V., from
Elizabeth Blau and her husband,
chef K im Canteenwalla, has opened
in Tivoli Village (Editor-in- Chief
Andrea Bennett's family and mine
tried nearly everything on the
menu—delicious!). Now open, too,
are amazing new retail offerings,
like Fred Segal at SLS, Robert
Graham at Grand Canal Shoppes,
and a beautiful new Breguet
boutique in Bellagio, among
many others. Plus, Downtown
Summerlin is opening now in a
healthy real estate market, and
Downtown continues its incredible
growth. Everything old is new
again, and plenty of undeveloped
area is new, too.
You might notice the fresh new
approach to our look. We're sprucing
up with an urbane new feel, keeping
pace with the increasingly cosmo-
politan nature of our city and the
sophisticated readers who visit and
live here. As you peruse our October
Men's Issue, I'm confident you'll
enjoy the gorgeous style section up
front, plus highlights of the people,
arts, and culture that make our
community so great.
Olivier Krug himself provided an exceptional Krug Champagne tasting—and a bit of family
history—at our event in the spectacular Louis Vuitton flagship inside The Shops at Crystals.
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