Top 10 Designer Hotels
Haute Hotels Make the Ultimate Fashion Statement
Slide 1 of 11: Our top 10 runway-ready hotels designed by fashion's elite (think Lagerfeld, Lauren, and Lacroix) are guaranteed to have a shelf-life that will easily outlast yesterday’s catwalk collection.
© Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà
Slide 2 of 11: Bulgari and Marriott joined forces to create the cliff-top Bulgari Resort Bali, featuring 59 oceanview villas with hand-cut volcanic stones and exotic hardwoods.
© Bulgari Resort
Slide 3 of 11: Many of the rooms at Dino Facchini's Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà in Verona radiate a rainbow of neon with four-post coronet beds dressed in swirl-patterned fabrics.
© Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà
Slide 4 of 11: One of the lounges at Galway’s whimsical g Hotel, designed by hat designer Philip Treacy, boasts a huge circular rug with hypnotic black and white swirls.
© The g Hotel
Slide 5 of 11: Waikiki’s Halekulani Hotel is home to a massive, one-of-a-kind Vera Wang Suite, bedecked with accessories hand-picked by its namesake Chinese-American designer.
© Halekulani Hotel
Slide 6 of 11: Each of the 17 rooms at Christian Lacroix's Hotel du Petit Moulin in Paris wear a different look – some, like the one pictured, feature walls splashed with Lacroix’s metaphysical fashion sketches.
© Hotel du Petit Moulin
Slide 7 of 11: Edinburgh’s 136-room Hotel Missoni flaunts a patterned palette that’s straight out of a Missoni spread – and puts minimalist mantras to shame.
© Hotel Missoni
Slide 8 of 11: Every item in the 204 carefully appointed rooms at Palazzo Versace, the world's first fashion-branded hotel, is “unmistakably Versace.”
© Palazzo Versace
Slide 9 of 11: Ralph Lauren redesigned the 36 oceanfront suites in the Pineapple House at Jamaica’s Round Hill Hotel & Villas with a white palette and furnishings from his home collection.
© Round Hill Hotel and Villas
Slide 10 of 11: Chanel's own Karl Lagerfeld revamped The Schlosshotel Berlin, blending luscious finishes and svelte lines. The result: timeless glamour.
© The Schlosshotel
Slide 11 of 11: Cartagena’s Tcherassi Hotel + Spa, the brainchild of Latin designer Silvia Tcherassi (pictured here), features walls dusted with real gold and custom-made amenities by the designer.
© Tcherassi Hotel & Spa
