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Your fashion-forward style applies to your Caribbean honeymoon, too
While some fashion designers churn out skimpy bikinis for posh beach romps, these famous tastemakers have taken their game to the mattresses—and pillows and sofas and rugs. Your favorite names in fashion and home design are honing a cutting new edge in the Caribbean by putting their names on the interiors of some of the most honeymoon-worthy beach resorts.
Round Hill Resort, Jamaica
In the beach house of your dreams (and, perhaps, your future) there are colonial wood pieces, ancestral prints, full libraries and the warm halo of a chic family that has done nothing but smile through generations of holiday cards. Ralph Lauren has designed just such a collection of private villas with saturated jewel tones accenting tooth-white canvas upholstery. Hardwoods are polished to a sheen so bright you can check your smile in the armchair. (Doubles from $335 during low season; roundhilljamaica.com)
Tortuga Bay, Dominican Republic
Oscar de la Renta pulls the gauzy curtains back on high society life to reveal that true luxury doesn’t look like gold—it looks, well, a lot like butter. At Tortuga Bay, the resort within the Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican Republic, there are butter-colored walls, buttery soft cushions and all the rich unctuousness of a stain-free world. The 32 suites are flawless and effortlessly tasteful, with a stocked kitchen and a chocolate palette of wicker furniture. (Doubles from $405 during low season; puntacana.com)
Viceroy, Anguilla
To design geeks, she is Kelly from Bravo’s hit show Top Design. To those with Wikipedia, she is Kelly Gallagher, Playboy Playmate, September 1984. But to honeymooners seeking a high-design hot spot, Kelly Wearstler’s most important role is as the creative genius behind the newly opened Viceroy Anguilla. With Hollywood regency accents and the coral pink monochrome of locally mined stone, the 166 rooms make you feel as if you should be sauntering toward your sweetie in glamorous white silk, a teacup puppy in one hand and a cocktail in the other. (Doubles from $695 during low season; viceroyhotelsandresorts.com)
Amanyara, Turks and Caicos
Cross an haute Southeast Asian meditation chapel with the obsessive symmetry of an executive boardroom, and the results will yield the Turks and Caicos hideaway of Amanyara. The 73 villas are mahogany temples where spiritually inclined guests make bikini-clad yoga poses in heated infinity reflecting pools. Amanyara manufactures the kind of blissed-out environment that gets its Zen up for the likes of Will Smith, Rihanna and Sienna Miller. (Doubles from $1,200 during low season; amanresorts.com)
The Landing, Harbour Island, The Bahamas
Designer India Hicks is a great-great-granddaughter to Queen Victoria, bridesmaid to Diana, Princess of Wales, and 495th in line to succeed the British throne. With such a pedigree, it’s no surprise that she brought true elegance to this 12-room boutique hotel. In the cozy rooms, which are worthy of both princesses and newlyweds alike, tall plantation beds sit on wide-planked floors like thrones. The lacquer-red restaurant, with its 800-bottle wine list, is a watering hole for beautiful people...though, without the honeymoon glow, none will shine quite as bright as you. (Doubles from $295 during low season; harbourislandlanding.com)
