The Colony Resort, nestled steps away from Palm Seashore’s famed Price Avenue, is a spot like no different. The well-known pink facade guarantees to move guests into one other world. Inside, the de Gournay-wallpapered foyer exudes tropical luxurious with velvet banquets, peacock chairs, and leopard-borne settees. Good-looking bellmen wait beside brass baggage carts, and porters provide trays of rosé. Native grandes dames and bronzed vacationers feast poolside at Swifty’s, an outpost of the previous Higher East Aspect boîte. A Dolce & Gabbana boutique gives tuxedos and robes applicable for the island’s strong social calendar. Even throughout the uncommon cloudy days, The Colony is a spot of perpetual summertime ease.
Every year, nonetheless, this sunny ambiance transforms into one thing cozier and much more merry. The lodge takes the vacation season severely… as does the most effective of Palm Seashore society, which flocks there to fete it. On December 5, Sarah Wetenhall and Aerin Lauder hosted a cocktail celebration and a ceremonial lighting of the lodge’s Christmas Tree.
Members of the Vogue100— together with Jamie Soros, Gloria Zhu, and Laura Sachs— gathered to mingle with native tastemakers like Sarah Bray-West and Logan Horne. In a sea of festive hues, mannequin Roosmarijn De Kok and podcaster Ali Weiss stood out in all black. Flutes of Champagne clinked as yuletide greetings have been swapped.
The festivities additionally celebrated the launch of The Colony Edit, a curated reward store contained in the lodge.
“I hope you’ll fall in love with the brand new addition to our pink paradise,” Wetenhall mentioned to her friends. “And maybe you’ll wander over and discover one thing you may’t stay with out.”
The Colony Edit gives but one more reason for the jet set flock its perfumed halls. Together with distinctive finds from luxurious manufacturers— together with, in fact, the objet d’artwork from Aerin—the boutique gives loads of merchandise, together with hats, hoodies, canine bowls, swimwear, ashtrays, and extra. Regardless of their way of life, guests can take a bit of The Colony dwelling with them.