Day: 14 October 2017

ALERT ALERT! Another Monaqasque royal has popped up in the front rows of Milan Fashion Week. While her niece Charlotte Casiraghi was gracing the Gucci Spring Summer 18 show in the Italian fashion capitol, aunt Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene was on the other side of town catching the Giorgio Armani show.

Back in 2011, the Italian designer was responsible for her wedding dress, which took three seamstresses and 2,500 hours to make, as well as her dress for the dinner and ball that followed. Sitting front row next to Giorgio’s niece, Roberta Armani, who is also the director of PR for the fashion house, Princess Charlene was joined by Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett.

The Princess kept it neutral in a stone snakeskin trench coat, navy jumpsuit, snakeskin mules and a Giorgio Armani Ecurie bag.

Friday however the Princess was feeling a little bit more adventurous in her fashion choices.

Clearly HSH got the memo early that the Versace Spring Summer 18 show was going to be nothing less than iconic and she pulled out all the stops. Sitting front row next to F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, whom she and Prince Albert spent time with during last year’s Monaco Grand Prix, HSH took in the tribute to Gianni Versace.

In a silver chain mail dress complete with cut outs and a black leather Moto jacket, the Princess was more than happy to shatter all your expectations of how a royal should dress. Seeming to be the second act to the silver sequinned Atelier Versace jumpsuit she wore back in July at the Red Cross gala it seems Charlene + Versace is the perfect style match to get people talking.

Instagram sensation and style blogger Louis Pisano writes SuperficialLivingDiary.com. Article first published September 21, 2017. All images with permission. Article first published September 25, 2017. 

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French President Emmanuel Macron’s abolition of the wealth tax soon after he took office was designed to stem the flow of millionaires from the country, but following a sustained outcry from his critics – who have called him “President of the rich” – his government is planning to introduce a tax on luxury yachts, supercars and precious metals in the 2018 budget.

The wealth tax was brought in by the Socialists in the 1980s, and was levied on individuals with assets above €1.3 million. Although there were plans to replace it with a real estate tax, yachts, luxury cars and jewellery were supposed to escape the levy.

“The idea of the wealth tax reform was that there should not be a brake on contributors to economic production, that we suppress taxes that deter investors,” Richard Ferrand, leader of the Republic on the Move parliamentary group, has said.

“Taxing real estate wealth is compatible with this, but goods such as yachts, luxury cars or precious metals do not contribute to the productive economy either.”

The 2018 budget bill will be studied by parliament’s finance commission this week.

Meanwhile, Tuesday, October 10, will see another national day of strike action against the President’s changes to France’s labour laws. Expect delays and cancellations for regional train service in and out of Monaco until 8 am on Wednesday, October 11.

Additionally, over this same period, there is a French air traffic control strike which will affect Nice airport. See the airport’s website for real-time flight arrivals and departures.

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