Style Picnic

Stuck in the rut when you should have been out wooing the sun or chasing those waves? Break free right now, in style, spirit and mind, and you will find yourself transported to your favourite destination in the landscape of your mind.

Destination: Relaxation!

I take a mini vacation every night. A dip in the tub. A whiff of lavender oil on my pillow. A glass of fine red wine. Looking at the stars through my telescope. Looking through my jewellery and arranging and re-arranging. There’s a lot that makes me unwind. But in style. And you?

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Destination: Solitude

I love my own company. But I hate being lonely. If I didn’t shut out the world once in a while, how would I understand it? How often do you date yourself?

Destination: Dream

I love dreaming random dreams, like catching a blue marlin in Kona, Hawaii, or about angling in Florida, and shopping in Champs Elysées. It feels like an instant holiday. And my next splurge is going to be a hammock, a couple of lounge decks and a slice of ocean. So that I can indulge in angling anytime. Who says I can’t dream?

Destination: Exploration

Have you counted those stars lately? Have you ever counted the legs of the caterpillar with a child? Have you had an elephant spurt some water on you? Have you picked up those binoculars ever?

“I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.” —Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real relaxation and comfort.” —Jane Austen

“It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.” —Paulo Coelho

“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” —Jean-Paul Sartre

“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” —Audrey Hepburn

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” —Aldous Huxley

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” —Judith Thurman

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” —Oscar Wilde

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour and catch the trade winds in your sails.” —Mark Twain

“No one realises how beautiful it is to travel and explore until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” —Lin Yutang

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” —Henry Miller

Photographs by Ashish Chawla. Styling by Aakanksha Jain. Model: Leno (Vogati Talents). Hair and makeup: Monsoon Salon & Spa. Location: JW Marriott, Aerocity, New Delhi.

From the May 2014 issue of L’Officiel India.