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Long-term brand success is a paradox: constant self-invention whilst honouring core values. Creative director Massimiliano Giornetti explains how the house founded by Salvatore Ferragamo, the celebrated shoemaker to Hollywood's stars, manages to achieve precisely that.
With feline features and hypnotic eyes, Elisa Sednaoui was made for modelling, which she began at sixteen. Eight years on, the muse is proving herself on screen, with roles alongside Vincent Gallo beckoning.
The plunder of Iraq's wars stripped its cultural heritage and left artists isolated. One non-profit, known in Arabic as Sada and founded by Iraqi-born Rijin Sahakian, is working to rebuild that critical infrastructure.
Philatelist and activist Nader Abuljebain fuses both passions in a bilingual study, arguing that a people with more than a hundred years of stamps cannot simply be erased from history through occupation.
The film on everyone’s lips these days is Julian Schnabel’s Miral. I finally watched it during the Doha Tribeca Film Festival where it received a standing ovation from an audience of Qataris, world cinema buffs, filmmakers and the media. The story of this extraordinary film is from a bo…
The age-old tussle between husband and wife has even become a two-player game, pitting boxing against opera, where non-cooperation reigns and each partner must guess what the other truly wants.
Qatar's selection to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup startled Western commentators who knew little of the country beyond its heat. Since securing the tournament last December, the Gulf state has become a global focus.
A new innovation is erasing the jagged traces of surgical scars, allowing patients to be cut open with scarcely an imprint left behind. It could transform how people feel about even the most invasive operations.
Wood lasts shaped like a human foot, metal stems set into heels to keep the wearer upright; the Parisian maestro, born in 1964, reveals why the perfect shoe is as much engineering as art.
We rank the world's richest governments by total reserves, from monetary gold to foreign exchange, while acknowledging that vast holdings, as China's overspending shows, are no guarantee of lasting prosperity.
The former Dior Homme designer turned photographer discusses his black-and-white chronicle of young men across four countries, his instinct for the zeitgeist, and why fashion and the image are inseparable.
Many filmmakers make their first short before twenty-five, but few cast legendary actors or work under the patronage of a luxury jeweller. Bespoke sought out Abdullah Al Ka'abi to learn how he managed exactly that.