Our biweekly newsletter is your source for travel inspiration from Virtuoso’s editorial team.

Urban Influence

For Virtuoso, The Magazine’s City issue, we made a botanical splash at one of CDMX’s chicest hotels, Casa Polanco, before diving into the surrounding neighborhood’s modern arts scene. Writer Alexandra Owens shares a compelling case for why art and design lovers should visit now. If fromage is more your thing, we’ve also got a new guide to eating your way through Paris, one cheese at a time. Scroll down for the goods.

A New Wave of Modern Design Is Heating Up Polanco

Get to know the Mexico City neighborhood through its coolest galleries and shops.

Where to Find the Best Cheese in Paris

Follow the city’s master cheesemakers to taste the future of French fromage.

The sexy desert retreat does high camp with style.

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Thebe Magugu, founder and creative director of his eponymous fashion brand, shares what he’s been loving lately.

Packing: A Chanel silk headscarf, which I use as a do-rag to protect my hair on flights, and the Thebe Magugu sterling Sisterhood pendant. It’s a good luck charm of mine.

Reading: Good to Great by Jim Collins.

Watching: Weapons and The Substance are two of my favorite recent movies – they’re both quite intelligent horror.

Dreaming of: Japan. Every time I’ve been due to visit, something ridiculous happens, the last being contracting chickenpox. I’m hoping for no disease or plague this time!

The White Lotus heads to Saint-Tropez: The show will reportedly film at Château de La Messardière this summer. The days of using airline-provided headphones are over. Until we’re back in Seoul, we’re into this at-home alternative to a Korean body scrub. Tour Chilean painter Matta’s preserved Italian home. Skip the hot toddy: Drink one of these bartender-recommended warm cocktails instead.

Ready to travel? Let’s go.

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