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Wander Dubai's design district, d3, and its limits prove elusive. During its inaugural Design Week the area spilled into Al-Fahidi and the seafront, interrogating craft, indigenous architecture and intimacy in a digital age.
Say hello to Gigi Hadid’s kid sister, whose dreams of riding at the Olympics were shattered by Lyme disease. Now she’s following in her sister’s footsteps and fast becoming a belle of the fashion circuit. Sisterhood – not in the feminist sense – has become something of an Instagram fixa…
At last year’s Davos World Economic Forum, John Defterios caught up with the Managing Director and CEO of King Abdullah Economic City, Fahd Al Rasheed, so we could learn more about their 100 billion USD megaproject in Saudi Arabia that’ll one day span an area the size of Washingto…
You could say Yves Saint Laurent started it all in the 1960s with his Le Smoking but Racil, an elegantly honed London-based label launched last year by Lebanese fashion designer, Racil Chalhoub, takes the rebellious female tuxedo as a starting point, and then reinterprets it with a char…
Miuccia Prada crowned her year with the Fondazione Prada, Rem Koolhaas's striking Milan art museum and proof of her cultural commitment. For more bookish minds, she now offers the Prada Feltrinelli initiative, another investment of name and resources.
With a complete overhaul by Portuguese architect Ricardo Camacho and Stroop landscape designers, the office of the Emir of Kuwait has revived a swathe of the country's Green Belt, creating its largest urban park and a fitting tribute.
In Camus' The Outsider, the murdered Arab is never named, a mere device in a fierce meditation on a godless world. Our writers revisit that emptiness and the figure history left voiceless.
Living in the limelight is never easy, yet Kuwaiti fashion-blogging couple Ascia Al-Faraj and Ahmad Al Bloushi, known as the Hybrids, take it in their stride. Daring to look different, they have become social-media style icons.
Six years ago Bulgari pledged part of every Save the Children ring to the charity. With a pendant added in 2014, the jeweller continues to channel luxury towards the world's most disadvantaged children.
OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), co-founded by Dutch architectural titan and theorist, Rem Koolhaas, has produced as many world-famous architects as it has world-famous buildings. The latest to join the fray is Syrian-born, Iyad Alsaka, partner in charge of the Middle East. I…
Provocative film roles notwithstanding, actress Stacy Martin is the pretty face of Miu Miu's eagerly awaited debut perfume. Shot with a black-and-white cat named Truman and the powder-blue quilted bottle, she lends the scene gentle intrigue.
As he steps down as chief executive of his eponymous label on the diamond jubilee of his birth, we celebrate the self-taught visionary who turned a fashion house into a true lifestyle empire.