Elite Traveler January-February 2015

CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE’S GLOBE-TROTTING TEAM

2 NewOrleans Photographer Paul Costello Originally from California, Costello moved to the Garden District of New Orleans with his wife and children in 2010. In between shooting for Vanity Fair and Victoria’s Secret, he took time out to pick some of his favorite pictures of the city (see page 139), capturing the unique atmosphere and special places that lured him to Louisiana.

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Shanghai Writer Amy Fabris-Shi

“Living in Shanghai can sometimes feel like living in the future,” says Fabris-Shi, who has been based in the city for 11 years and writes about it for Condé Nast Traveler , National Geographic and MO Magazine . On page 124, she reveals the trends, coolest hang-outs and hidden ways to make the most of the ultimate 21st-century destination.

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Buenos Aires Barman Tato Giovannoni Argentina’s master mixologist transformed the Buenos Aires bar scene when he opened his now-legendary “immigrant bar” Floreria Atlántico. So who better to pick the city’s best drinking dens? Read about Giovannoni’s top five spots in the city on page 69.

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Cape Town Writer Sarah Khan Capetonian Khan confesses to being a woman of many words, so it was a challenge to capture the best of the Western Cape in just a few pages. “Don’t miss the architecture, the culinary feats or the winelands scenery,” she summises, in her tip-filled romp around the region on page 132. 6

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Iceland Writer Tom Robbins

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As travel editor of the Financial Times and author of White Weekends , a book about skiing, Robbins’ pursuit of snow has taken him from Antarctica to the Himalayas, via 150-odd ski resorts, including Iceland, for this issue of Elite Traveler . Read about his experience in “heli-skiing’s must-go destination” on page 110.

As well as Elite Traveler , Garrett’s career has seen him shoot for W , Elle and Vogue . He says of our shoot: “The aesthetic of the Mondrian, with its gritty copper public areas, luminous spa, and surreal Thames ‘beach’ with St Paul’s in the background, served to heighten the fashion Anat Dychtwald found for the story.”