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Delivered in 2019, Flying Fox is an extraordinary 136m luxury megayacht, built by Lürssen. She’s the kind of vessel that would normally be wrapped in a shroud of mystery, except she’s not, as she was made available for charters (for which you’d need a spare $4M a week …
HOW IS LIFE AT ROLLS-ROYCE SINCE COVID-19? [Rolls-Royce Bespoke Designer, Michael Bryden:] Rolls-Royce was the first manufacturer to restart production in Britain after the coronavirus shutdown. Notably, our production resumed on May 4th, which was 117 years to the day that car builder …
Starting in Lyon and ending in Paris next to the the famous Eiffel Tower, the Austrian bike phenom Fabio Wibmer manages a gnarly urban freeride unlike we have ever seen before. With a multiple stair set on Montmartre and a huge bridge jump to an almost flat landing at La Défense, Wibmer…
Why pay to spend your holiday trapped on an overcrowded floating mall when there’s a way to have an affordable superyacht experience. Three years ago, the Ritz Carlton announced it had begun building a fleet of ships that would bridge the gap between 20-guest-superyachts and 650-person-…
HOW DID YOU END UP WORKING IN THE WATCH INDUSTRY? [Christian Knoop, Creative Director at IWC Schaffhausen] Watch design was always something I looked at as a source of inspiration and admiration. I am a trained industrial designer and have worked on vastly different products, ranging fr…
One way or another electric planes are going to happen. After all, they’ve been around for decades, albeit as experimental prototypes. So how long will it be until they become commercially viable? Not too much longer! That’s right, Airbus, Rolls Royce and Siemens are working together on…
Clarens, Switzerland, April 2020: Boosting our immune system has rarely felt more urgent, especially with the current pandemic swept across the world. Maintaining a healthy immune system can help protect your body from foreign invaders and is paramount for your body in becoming and stay…
With a display that lasted from January 31st till March 7th, Desert X helped shed light on how self-expression is a hot new topic in the Kingdom. The desert sands are slowly slipping through the hourglass, bringing change to the long-cloistered Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Nowhere is this m…
Both for countries across the Middle East and around the world, life as we know it came to a grinding halt in early March 2020. As a result it has become crystal clear how fragile our existence is. Talk about a reality check. Despite all the technology we’ve implemented, the complex fin…
The Modist may be no more, but back in February 2019 (issue 73), it was just two years old and definitely on the rise. So we spoke to Ghizlan Guenez, the founder of this conservative fashion e-retailer, as she was on a quest to dispel the notion that modesty means being frumpy or un-chi…
Let’s put aside the fact that Hublot makes a looooot of special editions because this one’s much more than just ‘another’ limited Classic Fusion. For starters, it took five years to develop. It also features Eastern Arabic numerals (on a sunburst grey dial). And finally, it has a custom…
It’s been quite a rollercoaster ride for Saudi businesswoman Princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz. The former Editor of Vogue Arabia has moved on from her dramatic and highly publicised ousting but she’s holding on to her crown as one of the Middle East’s main fashion protagonists. As far …