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Last August, Ralph Lauren’s executive vice-president of advertising, marketing and communications was elected to the corporation’s board. Noteworthy? We thought so. Why? Well, let’s just say this acorn hasn’t fallen far from Ralph’s tree. I first met 42-year-old David Lauren just a few …
Coming to, our narrator wobbles to the bathroom, washing in Badoit for its pore-clearing sodium and inspecting a hardened sty in the mirror. He will not, under any circumstances, let her see him this way.
After countless meetings with producers from leading international outlets, our writer reflects on the demographic-driven calculus of what makes the cut, where puppies and plane crashes rank above whole countries deemed uninteresting.
Two natural wonders top the list: Alaska's North Slope, where Prudhoe Bay oil meets migrating caribou, and Kazakhstan's remote Sharyn Canyon. A globe-trotting correspondent reflects on the places and people he has encountered.
Long before he understood why, our writer was entranced by his Dutch grandparents' cooking: broth soups, liver sausage and his Opa's hybridised Indonesian dishes, served with hand-ground coffee, sugar syrup and Oma's pies.
A little leather booklet of negatives reveals their grandfather and his wife in 1930s Kashmir, smiling and embracing. Among leather-bound tomes emerge his fountain-pen poetry and curious scribbles in Latin, colouring years of silence.
With restaurants across four continents, Gordon Ramsay is a busy man, yet at Doha's St. Regis he appears wholly at ease. In chef's whites, he is in Qatar to promote his fine-dining and casual ventures.
Billy Karam's passion began with the Porsche 911 SC RS that carried him to a Lebanese rally title. When real cars grew unattainable, he turned to miniatures, building an extraordinary scale collection.
As I make my way through the busy streets of Ashrafieh, it might be due to my biased perception but my eyes are drawn to Maktabis everywhere. And all of them in the carpet business. There’s Nivine Maktabi’s Oumnia, with its modernist tribal rugs, Hadi Maktabi’s traditional Oriental carp…
Yasmine Hamdan is no ordinary rebellious Arab pop star. More an experimental rocker, her progressive, contemporary take on Arabic music weaves creative, lyrical renditions of beloved Arab classics with punk rock references and shimmering electronica.
It is an unusual setting for an interview, a sunlit apartment with a wall-sized mirror reflecting mother and daughter May and Raya Mamarbachi, redeemed by a terrace of plants and artworks lining every wall.
The hotels Jean-Michel Gathy designs for the likes of Aman, One&Only and Cheval Blanc are off the decadence Richter scale. It’s therefore about time we meet the man who pioneered the private plunge pool, ‘naughty bathrooms’ and basking nets. The name Jean-Michel Gathy may not featur…