SUNDAY TRAVEL
We’ve tracked down three travel essentials — this week, stylish umbrellas — with three price options.
ECONOMY: New Zealand company Stella + Gemma sell a range of beautiful accessories including a great range of umbrellas. We are particularly taken with this black one with gold lightning bolts — better on the brolly than in the sky above you.
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BUSINESS: You’ve probably heard of Hunter gumboots but did you know this famous British company makes umbrellas too? Their range of transparent Moustache Bubble Umbrellas come in seven colours including this Pale Blue Colourblock; each has a bold, coloured trim on the canopy in the The US has welcomed Guinness production back to America for the first time since 1954 with the opening of the country’s first-ever purpose-built Guinness brewery in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, this month. The Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House is brewing Guinness Blonde American Lager for the North American market as well as up to six experimental beers to sell on-site, such as the Guinness Cherry Stout and the Guinness Guava Wit. It also doubles as a visitor centre with a stylish taproom, food, merchandise and brewery tours.
shape of the Hunter moustache from the company’s Original Tall boot.
About $73 from FIRST CLASS: Another Kiwi company making amazing umbrellas is Blunt, which is sweeping the world with its stylish but functional range of umbrellas. Blunt also experiments with collaborators and we love the limited edition Wildflowers design created in collaboration with fashion designer Karen Walker’s 2018 signature print inspired by eccentric English country gardens. $119 from We can’t decide who is hotter in this picture — is it R&B legend Alicia Keys or the stylish BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports car she’s posing with at either Disney’s Cars Land (unlikely) or somewhere in a US desert? Keys is a bit of a petrolhead and often posts images with awesome cars, although they have got her and husband Swizz Beatz in trouble. The pair recently avoided a US$16.5 million ($24m) lawsuit that accused Swizz of reselling or fraudulently using luxury cars leased in his name after defaulting on the leases.