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One benefit of middle age, Michael Karam reflects, is finally knowing what we will not put up with, especially in the air. Gone are the days when the very cheapest, most circuitous flight always won.
At secondary school, art college was dismissed as a refuge for dropouts who wished only to drink cheap wine. One writer who took neither path reflects on creativity, his trade and whether journalism counts as art.
The London-based founders explain how a playful Swahili greeting in Kenya, meaning traveller, inspired their label's name. They discuss their ethical focus and the original, catchy identity they were determined to create together.
Offered the chance to go backstage at Hackett's first-ever runway show and to interview the man behind the label, we caught the first plane out, expecting drama and chaos and finding something altogether calmer.
Syrian-Argentine impresario Alan Faena wears many hats across fashion, property and hospitality, though always a white one. Michael Tannenbaum meets the man behind the Faena Art District on the Buenos Aires waterfront.
I learned to people-watch in Paris, arriving from Amman as though dropped into the very epicentre of fascination. The first rule: ignore the locals, whose conversations rarely rise above the morning's metro delays.
In a region where recycling has scarcely taken hold, Averda's Maysarah Sukkar wants to reshape Middle Eastern habits. Matt Nash meets the Sukleen chief in Beirut, where he insists encouragement, not preaching, wins people over.
A Georgetown study finds architecture graduates facing 13.9 per cent unemployment, higher even than the arts, while half the next cohort may be jobless or underemployed. We ask whether a degree still pays.
In three turbulent years steering Lotus, Dany Bahar has weathered extraordinary highs and lows. Nicolas Shammas charts the former Red Bull and Ferrari executive's bold gambles, and asks how secure his marque's future really is.
People have written about it since writing began, yet for most of history men held the pen. Invoking Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, we explore who truly shaped fiction's intimate lives.
He may be only 33, but Rabih Fouany has been head chef at the Phoenicia's principal restaurant, Eau de Vie, for four years. So when we dared him to cook exclusively for us, he did not even blink.
Remember the scales that announced your weight for a coin? Michael Karam traces the curious disappearance of the speak-your-weight machine from Britain's high streets and chemists, and the very human reluctance behind its fall.