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HTSI Jen Rubio’s favourite dining destinations

The co-founder of the luggage brand Away talks sustainability with supermodels in Paris and celebrates success over Old Fashioneds in San Francisco

HTSI Tata Harper’s Vermont

The natural-beauty pioneer led the global “farm-to-face” movement with her much-lauded skincare brand that eschews synthetic ingredients

HTSI Alberto Morillas talks more personal taste

The master perfumer concludes his list of likes with the dangerously delicious chocolate almonds, shopping in Knightsbridge and Seville’s Feria de Abril

HTSI Alain Ducasse’s Monaco

The long-time master of refined contemporary French gastronomy continues to be one of the most revered Michelin-starred chefs in the world, with 28 restaurants to his name

HTSI Sara Prentice talks personal taste

The jewellery maven, who previously designed for Graff, Cartier and Fabergé, has brought a modern vibrancy to Garrard during her tenure as creative director

HTSI Sara Prentice talks more personal taste

The jewellery designer concludes her list of likes with her style inspiration Grace Coddington, the medieval towers of San Gimignano and shopping in the King’s Road

HTSI Margaret de Heinrich de Omorovicza talks personal taste

The former US diplomat is co-founder of Omorovicza, which uses the healing waters of Budapest’s thermal springs in its skincare

HTSI Margaret de Heinrich de Omorovicza talks more personal taste

The co-founder of Omorovicza concludes her list of likes with the attractions of Budapest, seafood on the Amalfi Coast and reflexology

HTSI Anne-Sophie Pic’s Valence

The French restaurateur, who received no formal training, holds more Michelin stars than any other female chef – her seventh for London’s La Dame de Pic, which opened last year.

HTSI Nathan Outlaw’s Cornwall

The celebrated seafood connoisseur has five restaurants, including outposts in Cornwall, London and Dubai, and a constellation of Michelin stars

HTSI Christophe Robin’s Brittany

The world-renowned hair colourist travels the globe for his elite clientele and has a salon and boutique on Paris’s Rue Bachaumont

HTSI Hakan Rosenius talks more personal taste

The artistic director of Asprey continues his list of likes with shopping in Stockholm, Steve McQueen’s style and the graphic art of Ed Ruscha

HTSI Kilian Hennessy talks more personal taste

The man behind the By Kilian fragrance brand continues his list of likes with Klimt, chocolatiers and The Connaught

HTSI Pierre Marcolini's Brussels

Chocolatier Pierre Marcolini shares his insider’s guide to what to see and where to eat

HTSI Paula Gerbase talks more personal taste

The Savile Row-trained designer rounds up her list of likes with Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, shopping on the Left Bank and the artist Agnes Martin

HTSI Bill Granger’s Sydney

The Melbourne-born chef and food writer’s legendary brunches are served at his Granger & Co restaurants in Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul and London’s Notting Hill, Clerkenwell and King’s Cross

HTSI Thierry Wasser’s Côte d’Azur

The Swiss-born perfumer was made house perfumer at Guerlain in 2008, a role previously held by members of the Guerlain family

HTSI Aerin Lauder’s Aspen

The granddaughter of Estée Lauder is the founder of Aerin, a global luxury lifestyle brand of beauty products, fashion accessories and home décor collections

HTSI Christine d’Ornano talks personal taste Part I

Christine d’Ornano is global vice president of her family-owned beauty brand Sisley

HTSI Christine d’Ornano personal taste Part II

The Sisley vice president concludes her list of likes with Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, The River Café and London’s Pimlico Road

HTSI Hussein Chalayan’s Istanbul

The UK-based Turkish Cypriot conceptual fashion designer combines precision tailoring and technical innovation to elegantly minimalistic effect

HTSI Pilar Corrias personal style Part I

Art dealer Pilar Corrias made her name showing pieces by Keith Tyson and Anish Kapoor and has a Rem Koolhaas-designed gallery in Fitzrovia

HTSI Pilar Corrias personal style Part II

The art dealer concludes her list of likes with biodynamic wine, classic Italian bollito and the best sushi outside Japan

HTSI Jo Malone’s London

The self-taught scent maestro launched Jo Loves in 2011, 12 years after selling Jo Malone London, the kitchen-table business that burgeoned into a multimillion-pound brand

HTSI Natalia Vodianova talks personal taste Part I

Model and founder of the Naked Heart Foundation Natalia Vodianova is campaigning to transform the lives of children with special needs in Russia

HTSI Natalia Vodianova talks personal taste: Part II

The Russian model concludes her list of likes with the view from her Paris balcony, Chelsea Clinton’s It’s Your World and the best burger in LA

HTSI Pierre Hardy talks personal taste Part I

Pierre Hardy’s eponymous line is loved for its sculptural shoes and colour-block bags. Last year he celebrated 25 years as Hermès creative director of shoes

HTSI Pierre Hardy talks personal taste Part II

The French designer concludes his list of likes with the elegance of La Nouvelle Vague, cake and caviar in Le Marais, and BLTs and Bloody Marys in the West Village

HTSI Lara Bohinc talks personal taste Part One

Slovenian-born jewellery and accessories designer Lara Bohinc trained in industrial design and brings a beguiling sculptural modernity to her pieces

HTSI Lara Bohinc talks personal taste Part II

The jewellery and accessories designer concludes her list of likes with vintage kimonos, The Beaumont hotel and Berlin

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HTSI Skye Gyngell’s London

The Australian chef was catapulted into the limelight in 2011 when Petersham Nurseries Café, where she was head chef, won a Michelin star. She opened Spring restaurant last October

HTSI Melissa Odabash’s Jupiter and Palm Beach

The American-born, London-based bikini model-turned-swimwear designer is known for her über-glamorous cover-ups and flattering one-pieces

HTSI Georgina Chapman’s Westport, Connecticut

The British-born creative director of Marchesa

HTSI Roja Dove talks personal taste Part I

Master perfumer Roja Dove is the founder of the Haute Parfumerie in Harrods and launched his own line of scents, Roja Parfums, in 2011

HTSI Roja Dove talks personal taste Part II

The master perfumer ties up his list of likes with the Brighton Lanes, David Beckham and the Côte d’Azur

HTSI Jeremy Hackett’s London

The chairman and founder of the quintessentially British menswear brand has 51 stores worldwide and a new Regent Street flagship, which opened in November 2013

HTSI Carole Bamford’s Cotswolds

The founder of Daylesford Organic and Bamford luxury womenswear and spa range opened her Oxfordshire pub The Wild Rabbit in September 2013

HTSI Rossano Ferretti’s Parma

The super-stylist is renowned for his revolutionary patented hair-cutting technique, The Method, which is now practised at all 18 of his eponymous salons around the world

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METRO ‘I wrote a book about toxic male comedians – they hate not being in control’ Julia Raeside

Heard the one about the 20-something female stand-up comedian’s first gig when the promoter told her if she wanted another performance, she would have to give him oral sex?

Author and journalist Julia Raeside has. It was at the Edinburgh Fringe three years ago, where she sat in a dark room with 40 people, listening to a young woman talk about the time her new boss used his power in an attempt to intimidate and sexually coerce her.

When Amy Poon opens her first permanent restaurant, Poon’s at Somerset House in London, next week, she won’t be behind the pass. “I’m not a chef, I’m not a restaurateur,” the 52-year-old says, laughing. “I’m not sure what I am. Which sounds like an existential crisis.”

The Blairs hired her for a reason': what it's like being trained by Carole Caplin on FaceTime

Instantly recognisable as the woman who dominated the headlines in 2002, her unique workout method is flawless

YOU Natalia Vodianova Cinderella Supermodel

YOU Tracey Woodward uses her experiences of abuse and domestic violence to help others

I'm a successful self-made businesswoman, yet I only learned to read and write at 14 After surviving her unreliable mother's myriad bad choices and violent boyfriend, TRACEY WOODWARD vowed to make a better life for herself. And now she is helping others to escape similarly difficult circumstances

When the managing director of MediaCom Claudine Collins discovered she had breast cancer, she had what could be considered an unusual reaction. She told us, “My consultant said you are going to need an operation. So I looked at my diary and said ‘OK how about the 15th of January next year.’ It was October. He firmly said no and booked her in for treatment the following week. “Looking back, I was in denial and literally didn’t believe it because I had no symptoms.”

“I had just started at artistic director at Garrard in September 2012, and in early November I was going on my first work trip with my then CEO to Doha to meet the partners out there — it was a big deal. The night before I left I found a lump in my left breast. You are told breast cancer is usually a pea-sized lump that is unmovable, but it wasn’t like that — it was flat but quite big and noticeable”

THE TIMES Astrid Kircherr My scrapbook of days with the Beatles

In 1960, Astrid Kirchherr walked into the Kaiserkeller bar in Hamburg. Her friends had told her about a new band from Liverpool, the Beatles. On seeing them, “my whole life changed in a couple of minutes,” she says. They became friends, despite the Liverpudlians having no German and Kirchherr no English. The 22-year-old photographer took some of the first shots of the original line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe. “They were absolutely sweet and fantastic looking and had a lot of humour,” she says. She fell for Sutcliffe: “It was love at first sight. I thought, ‘Jesus Christ, he looks fantastic.’”