In our weekly TWIL series, we bring you the latest in luxury news from around the world. This week’s highlights: Experience a Dolce&Gabbana summer at Twiga beach club, Chaumet’s L’Épi de Blé high jewellery collection shines with new jewels, and more.
Forte dei Marmi’s Iconic Twiga Beach Club Welcomes A Dolce&Gabbana Summer Makeover
Located amongst Forte dei Marmi’s gorgeous beaches and towering mountains, the iconic Twiga beach club breezes into Italy’s summer season with a new Banano print look, courtesy of Dolce&Gabbana. DG Resort’s creative takeover spans the entire club, shading its halls and sea-view restaurant in whites and deep greens. A Dolce&Gabbana pop-up store will also be open, featuring garments and accessories designed exclusively for Twiga. The club also hosts Vesta’s debut—a restaurant brand that emerges from LMDV Hospitality. Dedicated to gastronomic excellence, Vesta serves authentic Mediterranean cuisine with a contemporary and elegant twist, crafted by a skilled team of chefs.
L’Épi De Blé de Chaumet High Jewellery Collection Is Enhanced With New Pieces
In 1811, Chaumet created wheat tiaras favoured by the Empress Josephine, a motif embodying abundance, prosperity, and the poetry of nature. More than two centuries on, this motif continues to reign as one of the maison’s most beloved signatures and is reimagined through several stunning pieces, including earrings and a ring that appears as if it is swaying in the breeze. The parure, which would not appear amiss on a Greek goddess, consists of a contemporary bandeau tiara and a necklace featuring finely chiselled ears of wheat, as well as a ring dazzling with a two-carat, pear-shaped diamond, and a pair of earrings also set with one-carat, pear-shaped diamonds.
Discover The Latest At EQ Kuala Lumpur
From culinary collaborations to nostalgic pop-ups and curated art installations, have a look at the latest dining and lifestyle experience at this award-winning hotel.
Chef Xabier Goikoetxea Brings Basque And Mediterranean Flavours To Sabayon
Sabayon welcomes chef Xabier Goikoetxea—protégé of one of Spain’s most decorated chefs, Martín Berasategui—for an exclusive culinary showcase running until 9 August 2025. As executive chef of the Michelin-starred Oria restaurant in Barcelona, Goikoetxea brings 15 years of Basque mastery and Mediterranean flair to this special dinner residency. Guests can expect a refined tasting menu featuring dishes such as San Sebastián seafood broth, wild turbot with pil-pil and caviar, and a dessert of basil water, raw-almond cream, and lemon-peel frozen pearls. Priced at RM888+ per person, dinner runs from 6:30pm to 11pm nightly, with vegetarian options available.
For dining reservations, call +603 2789 7839, send a WhatsApp to +6012 583 5319, or email [email protected]. For corporate group experiences, email David Schnurr at [email protected].
Chalet Pop-Up Returns With A Taste Of Swiss Nostalgia
The hotel is reviving a beloved chapter of Malaysia’s fine dining heritage with Chalet, a limited-time pop-up at The Conservatory, Level 3, until 30 August 2025. First established in 1974 at the former Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur, Chalet was famed for its Swiss classics, tableside presentations, and European-style hospitality. This reimagined experience honours these traditions with gooey bites and hearty dishes such as raclette valaisanne, fondue au fromage, émincé de veau à la zurichoise, filet de boeuf wagyu, and the homard thermidor. Chalet’s showstopping centrepiece, canard à la presse, presents a whole roasted duck pressed tableside in a gleaming silver press, then finished in a rich sauce made from its juices—this signature dish is available by pre-order only and best shared between two diners. Desserts include crêpes suzette, hot strawberry soufflé, and specialty coffees, laced with liqueur and topped with whipped cream.
This experience is available for dinner only. For dining reservations, call +603 2789 7839, send a WhatsApp to +6012 583 5319, or email [email protected].
EQ’s Latest Seni Book Spotlights Local And Global Artists
To celebrate the launch of Seni, a new art publication by EQ Kuala Lumpur, the hotel recently unveiled a curated collection of artworks that speak to themes of renaissance and cultural continuity. The pieces—ranging from restored commissions to expressive sculptures and contemporary murals—reflect the hotel’s evolution from its storied past to its present-day reinvention. Highlights include Malaysian Life by Yan Sook Leong, a copper tooling masterpiece from 1974 restored to its original place in the hotel lobby; The Rise of the Phoenix by Kenji Chai, a large-scale mural constructed from 72 repurposed plates from the former Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur; Miza, Kika and Iwa and Sorok-Sorok by Nizam Abdullah, a series of bronze sculptures displayed at the porte-cochère; and The Striding Man by Mark Lee, a sculpture originally created for Robb Report Malaysia and Johnnie Walker Blue Label. In addition to these marquee pieces, the hotel also houses international works by artists from Japan, Indonesia, France, Canada, and Italy.
Make Your Next Tea Stop At TWG’s New Tea Salon & Boutique
Luxury teahouse chain TWG Tea has just opened its flagship Tea Salon & Boutique at The Gardens Mall. The gleaming 1,700 sqft space features a refreshed salon concept with rich hues, mirrored surfaces, sculptural lighting, and opulent touches such as etched glass, Italian marble, and hand-gilded teapots. Inside, guests can explore more than 1,000 single-estate harvests, signature blends, and haute couture tea collections, including Silver Moon Tea, French Earl Grey, and 1837 Black Tea. Tea lovers will also find curated gift sets, whimsical TWG Tea Teddies, and a Takeaway Tea bar.
Dewan Filharmonik Petronas Unveils Exciting Concerts For Quarter 4 of 2025
Malaysia’s premier concert hall, dedicated to classical music and the home of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, will play host to numerous concert presentations to cater to a range of refined tastes during the last quarter of the year. On 11 October, catch the second instalment of the Chopin Festival led by Rune Bergmann and pianist Martin Garcia Garcia. Next on the calendar is a performance of Mahler’s epic Symphony No.4 and masterpieces by Rossini featuring soprano Hera Hyesang Park and conductor cum MPO Music Director Junichi Hirokami on 8 November. Meanwhile, ballet devotees can look forward to Swan Lake on 5 and 6 December, followed by The Nutcracker on 12 and 13 December featuring the Ballet Stars of Moscow and led by Stanislav Kochanovsky.
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Artist Leon Leong To Present His First Solo Exhibition At Wei-Ling Gallery
Leon Leong will showcase his first solo presentation at Wei-Ling Gallery, titled Making Room, from 2 to 30 August 2025. It will exhibit a suite of miniatures against a wooden skeletal frame, its structure recounting the huts that once populated Kampung Baru in Kuala Lumpur. His meditation on memory is enriched by the gallery’s physical space, a heritage shophouse transformed into a site dedicated to cultivating Malaysia’s contemporary art scene. Growing up as the son of a diaspora in Ipoh’s multiracial community, the artist occupies liminal spaces in life and art. Leong’s exhibitions are esteemed: his previous work, Stilt Houses—The Floating World of Kampung Baru 2022, earned the jury prize at the IX Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Obsessed with the idiosyncratic clashes between past and present, he continues to locate their lingering traces in our environment.
Visit the exhibition at Wei-Ling Gallery, 8, Jalan Scott, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur.
Volvo Hosts Malaysia’s Biggest Padel Tournament
Volvo was the first automotive brand in Malaysia to offer a full range of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) for all of its models. Besides making waves in the automotive world, Volvo also played host to Malaysia’s largest and most exciting padel tournament, the Volvo Padel Open 2025, in support of inclusivity, wellness, and connection. Players in the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced categories competed during six thrilling weekends for prizes worth more than RM180,000, including a seven-day experience in a fully electric Volvo. Back for its highly anticipated second edition, the tournament drew a record-breaking turnout of more than 400 players.
Vivo Debuts Its First Foldable Smartphone In Malaysia, The X Fold5
This week, Vivo Malaysia launched the X Fold5, its first foldable smartphone in our market. For RM6,999, you get a plethora of features, including 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, a 6,000 mAh battery, a 6.53-inch cover display, an 8.03-inch main display, a Zeiss co-engineered imaging system, and more—all in a package that weighs 217g and is 9.2mm thick when folded and 4.3mm when unfolded. Its svelte profile should not be underestimated, as it has IPX8 and IPX9 water resistance, IP5X dust resistance, and low temperature resistance of up to -20°C. In addition, it has a Carbon Fiber Keel Hinge that vivo’s lab boffins say can withstand up to 600,000 folds. Both of its displays boast up to 4,500 nits of local peak brightness, while the aforementioned imaging system includes a 50-megapixel Zeiss telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom and 100x HyperZoom, a 50MP Ultra-Sensing VCS Bionic Main Camera, and a 50MP ultra-wide-angle camera. And what’s a gadget these days without an army of AI tools? The vivo X Fold5 comes with an extensive productivity suite, including Origin Workbench, vivo DocMaster, Smart Call Assistant, and AI Transcript Assist, just to name a few. All of this is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform.
