When it comes to matters of taste, fashion designers tend to be more discerning than most. This is why, when someone in fashion recommends an under-the-radar, family-owned hotel on a craggy Italian isle (see Roger Vivier creative director Gherardo Felloni’s pick), you know it’s worth the trek. For this group, it’s all in the details, whether it’s the striped cabana cushions at Villa Feltrinelli (“perfection” in the eyes of Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon) or the cinematic nature, per Thebe Magugu, of Cape Town’s Mount Nelson, a Belmond Hotel .
(“I feel like a character playing a role whenever I stay,” he says.) In celebration of peak out-of-office season, here, 18 fashion designers share their very favorite hotels around the world. Hotel Esencia Esencia is an absolute dream—my boyfriend and I have spent some of the most beautiful and romantic days there.
From the rooms to the food to the beach, everything is perfection. —Ludovic de Saint Sernin Post Ranch Inn I was recently brought to the Post Ranch Inn as a surprise and it was possibly one of the most magical places I have ever been. Mornings spent hiking the redwood trails, warm afternoons spent poolside amidst the the fog of high elevation clouds.
Dinners watching the sunset over the oceans to the song of night owls. Pure bliss. The very best place to unplug.
—Aurora James Passalacqua The minute I step out of the car at Passalacqua, I literally feel myself slip into a different energet.