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Smart Casual Dress Code – How It Works

We all get invited time by time. Whether after a working day for the afterwork event, a private party with friends, company meetings or other cool events. The flyers and Emails flutter in all colors and shapes in our physical and digital letterboxes. The dress code smart casual is often found on the promising invitation. Well, one approach are the two words ‘Smart’ and ‘Casual’. It’s supposed to be a style between elegant and casual – but not overdressed. Sounds complicated? It is not. dresscode smart casual

Smart Casual Explained

I hope, of course, we can also enlighten it for the ladies soon, but today it’s the gentleman’s turn. The Dresscode “Smart Casual” leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Simply said, it’s about looking chic, but also not overdressed. Elegance & casualness is the key to the solution. The tie can be left in principle at home.

Smart Casual – Do

  • Chino pants with shirt & blazer
  • Nice jeans with shirt & blazer
  • Trenchcoat
  • Loafers without socks
  • Shoes to lace with or without socks
  • Selected sneakers
  • Polo shirt with blazer
  • Straw hat or Panama hat
  • Mechanical watch

Smart Casual – Don’t

  • Swimwear
  • Flip-Flops
  • Khaki trousers
  • Sandals
  • ripped jeans
  • Dirty shoes
  • Worn out sneakers
  • Bermuda Shorts
  • Chinese watches or replicas
  • Snapbacks

Smart Casual – Fit To the Season

Of course smart casual doesn’t look the same all year. I have therefore made you a small compilation how you can solve it:
  • Spring
  • Medium-light fabrics Colors like white, pink, pastel green, light blue Blazer or trenchcoat in the evening
  • Matching brogues or oxfords Selected sneakers Loafers without socks
  • Summer
  • Light fabrics, e.g. Linen Colors such as white, pink, navy blue, yellow etc. Blazer in the evening
  • Selected sneakers loafers without socks
  • Autumn
  • More solid fabrics, e.g. Tweed Darker colors like Bordeaux Red, Brown, Black Jacket or coat in the evening
  • Matching brogues or oxfords or boots
  • Winter
  • Solid fabrics Dark colors such as black, brown, blue Warm jacket with scarf
  • Boots

The Matching Watch

The finding for a suitable watch is an individual decision. If you want to stand out with style, timelessness and sustainability, choose a mechanical Swiss watch with a manufactory. My choice is the Carl F. Bucherer, Manero Flyback ‘- elegance and sportiness harmonized. If you still have questions or suggestions, or even need a consulting, I am here for you!

Find Out More About Other Dress Codes

We do have some other options ready for you, dependent on the event and invite you can find out more here:
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McLaren 720S – A New Benchmark Of Supercar Excellence

McLaren 720S – Introduction

When it comes to the fastest cars in the world, McLaren is for sure one of the leading brands in the industry. During the Geneva Motorshow, they have presented their latest model: The McLaren 720S.

The England-based manufacturer of luxury, high-performance sports and supercars, has renewed the Super Series product family at the core of its brand with the introduction of the new McLaren 720S, a car that sets new benchmarks of supercar excellence.

Trust me, I couldn’t have been more excited to experience the 720S on the road. Why? The performance is absolutely insane. The 720S is shattering every sort of power I’ve witnessed in a car – by far.

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But let me explain why

The new McLaren 720S introduces the second-generation Super Series, the product family at the heart of the McLaren brand. It’s the successor of the 650S I drove in Tenerife. Let’s go through a couple of facts to turn up the excitement:

  • The engine has been upgraded from a 3.8 litre to a 4.0 litre twin turbo charged V8
  • A Carbon fibre chassis is key to the 1,283kg lightest dry weight
  • 41% of components in the engine are all-new
  • Cooling performance improves by 15% in comparison to the 650S.

The numbers are staggering

Driving the 720S, sort of feels like passing galaxies in warp speed. Yes, I imagine a spaceship must be feeling similar. The turbochargers have been adjusted, so the 720S comes up with more torque – meaning the power is available in an earlier stage.

The 650S started to increase the acceleration after like 3’000 RPM, though the 720S provides the power at the very beginning. The 720bhp are just sending you into other dimensions, I guess you will have to drive it to fully experience what I mean.

But let’s get these impressive numbers a bit structured:

  • 720PS and 770Nm, with a power-to-weight ratio of up to 561PS per tonne
  • Maximum speed of 212mph (341km/h)
  • Braking from 200 km/h to standstill in 4.6 seconds, covering 117m

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McLaren 720S – The Design

My first impression was true, the 720S is all about a new concept of aerodynamics and design. The new McLaren 720S represents a step-change in McLaren Super Series’ design language. Balanced, compact, proportions are defined by the elegant sweep of the teardrop glasshouse, while the 720S bodywork creates a futuristic, highly technical appearance.

Hours of innovation are defining the design of the new McLaren 720S. The lean, sculpted body shape creates an instantly recognisable silhouette.

The canopy-like design also provides a feeling of 360-degree vision for occupants that is unrivalled in the supercar class, allowing light to flood into the cabin and setting a new benchmark for visibility.

The aggressively contoured front bumper takes its inspiration from the McLaren P1TM. Visually dramatic, digital LED headlights are integrated within ‘eye-sockets’ that feature an aero duct to channel air to the low-temperature radiators and cut deep into the front fenders to produce a distinctly predatory gaze.

The new McLaren 720S is equipped with Static Adaptive Headlights, a pioneering technology that optimises headlight performance by changing the directional light intensity based on steering input.

Double-skinned dihedral doors allow for the apparent removal of side air intakes from the toned, pinched waistline, despite the increased cooling requirements of the new 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine. Fast moving air is efficiently managed around the sleek A-pillars into ducts within the door, maximising cooling performance without the need to increase radiator dimensions or mass.

  • The 720S merges visual drama, state-of-the-art technologies, and aerodynamic purity to introduce a new generation of design language
  • Aluminium bodywork is ‘shrink-wrapped’ around a carbon fibre structure, for sculpted, technical appearance and optimal aerodynamic efficiency
  • Double-skinned dihedral doors channel air to high-temperature radiators

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The 720S – My Drive In Rome

At the moment I flew out of Zürich, we literally had snow in the middle of spring. Fortunately, the weather in Rome was much better and the following Saturday showed the city in its most beautiful glance.

We took the cars and drove it out of the city. The terrain was rather difficult – heavy corners and bumpy roads promised a lot of fun and required quite some concentration.

I’m still sure the McLaren brand engineers the best gearboxes on the market, the one in the 720S is yet again another piece of perfection. 7.8 seconds from 0-200 is almost the performance you’re expecting from a plug-in hybrid car like the Porsche 918 Spyder. But the McLaren 720S doesn’t bark and shout at you all the time, it’s not the crisp metallic sound we had in past supercars – the 720S is a hyper car – engineered towards perfection. And that’s how it feels to drive – bit like a spaceship.

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Talisker Whisky – Made By The Sea

Talisker Whisky – Introduction

A couple of days ago, I had the pleasure to interview Andreas Walch, listen to the impressive history of the Talisker distillery and taste a few whiskies. Founded in 1830 by the MacAskill brothers, an interesting story follows with different owners until 1960 when a fire destroys a big part of the distillery.

However, since I’m often led by emotions, I wanted to pick up the part that inspires me the most.

Talisker Whisky – My Inspiration Of The Sea

Rán is the female god of the northern mythology, half human and half fish. She stands for the varying moods of the sea. The sea has inspired humanity back to our very roots and has an influence since ever. Also, other mythologies, for example the Greek ones, prove that we’re talking about a great power here.

In meditations, you can learn to be like the sea. Silent and calm when necessary, stormy and powerful when required. But finally, you learn to let go and accept the inner peace – like the sea.

The sea has a great inner power and silence, it’s finally showing the harmony of the two aspects. It’s called entirety.

Talisker Whisky – Made By The Sea

The Isle of Skye is renowned for its rich, varied landscape. With its soft, serene shores and a astonishing view to the Cuillin mountains. Talisker Skye is the distillery which reflects the entirety of the sea at its best. With a smoky sweetness, maritime notes and a spicy edge, it makes you feeling the taste of the sea.

The oldest working distillery on the Isle of Skye, Talisker is an alluring, sweet, full-bodied single malt that’s so easy to enjoy, and like Skye itself, so hard to leave.

Pictures Of My Conversation

I learned a lot during my conversation with Andreas. Of course I tasted a bit of the whole collection and finally mixed my own cocktail.

Pictures and rights by Christian Schmid – Fotowerk132

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Talisker Skye Rider – Mixing My Own Cocktail

Okay, I’m not very experienced with Cocktails – I usually order straight. But Andreas showed me a new version – called ‘Talisker Skye Rider’. The Skye Rider is definitely one of the cocktails I’d order at the bar.

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Talisker Skye Rider – How to mix it

Pretty easy to mix at home, let’s do a little ‘how to’:

  • Ingredients
  • 4 cl Talisker Skye 1 cl Maple Syrup Ginger Beer
  • Topping
  • Slice of lime
  • Preparation
  • – Fill up the cocktail glass with ice cubes – Add the Talisker Skye Whisky plus the maple Syrup – Fill up the glass with ginger beer – Mix the whole drink and top it with a slice of lime -> you’re done.

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