Home · Category
The people who make the things, the places and the arguments worth reading about.
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.
Akio Morita's first product, a rice cooker, burnt the rice and sold barely a hundred units. Undeterred, he and his partners learned, persevered and built one of the great electronics empires.
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.
From Centurion's billion-dollar stake in Abu Dhabi's NMC Healthcare to Qatar National Bank's vast capital raise, we examine the year's largest transactions and the appetite for healthcare assets driving them.
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.
A collective of 105 architects, designers, engineers and artisans, .PSLAB goes from strength to strength. Warren Singh-Bartlett visits its beautiful Mar Mikhayel headquarters in Beirut to meet founder Dimitri Saddi behind the lighting house's global rise.
Jonathan Weiss makes some of the world's most sought-after audio equipment. From a rare eighteenth-century mill in Pennsylvania, the founder of Oswalds Mill achieves with ten or fifteen watts what most manufacturers need a thousand to manage.
More than an ideas man, HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal stakes everything on what he calls well-calculated, well-studied high-risks. Nicolas Shammas meets Bespoke's Ultimate Visionary, razor-sharp and remarkably candid away from the multi-million-dollar deals.
Asfari began his career as an engineer in Oman during the 1981 oil boom, intending to fund an MBA. Barely in his twenties, he was earning handsomely, yet he was building no equity value of his own.
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…
Over half a million visitors queued for hours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City this summer to witness a monumental, retrospective exhibition of the late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s astonishing body of work. Alexander McQueen was obsessed with beauty …
As a touring exhibition of his work crosses America and Europe, Becky Lucas charts the unstoppable rise of Jean-Paul Gaultier, the Frenchman who upended fashion's boundaries with a single iconic cone bra and corset.