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Designer entrepreneur Jeffrey Rüdes has a stellar track record you may not know, though you will know J Brand. He launched it in 2004, having watched jeans evolve from modest staples into something altogether more elevated.
The Richard Mille watch developed for tennis champion Rafael Nadal is a test bed of high-tech engineering, built to withstand the most extreme conditions, look like a million dollars and weigh as little as a feather.
Replaying her recorded midsummer visit to Ralph & Russo in London, our writer cringes at her own gushing exclamations. Yet the couture house's exquisite silhouettes, she admits, fully warranted every breathless oh là là and oh, wow.
Since Volkswagen took ownership in 1998, Bentley's renaissance has been remarkable, owed largely to the Continental GT. The latest figures show record sales, up nearly ten per cent, with two-door GTs accounting for more than half production.
A one-off high-jewellery watch that channels the swirl of a couture ball gown, the Envol pairs scarab-wing marquetry and tsavorite garnets with the inverted Dior Inversé movement.
Hermès ventures well beyond leather and shawls, partnering with French framebuilder Time on the elegant, understated Le Flâneur. Far more than a fashion statement, this carbon-fibre machine is engineered to be ridden.
For Dior's autumn/winter 2015-16 haute couture show, Raf Simons conjured a garden of innocence and decadence, filtering simplicity and luxury through the eyes of Flemish and French masters of art and craft.
It could be argued that Rubaiyat brought high-end fashion to Saudi Arabia. With their new department store in Jeddah's Stars Avenue Mall, they now offer over 300 brands and a personal shopping service, reinventing the retail experience.
Almost everyone knows AMG means a higher-tuned Mercedes-Benz, the seamless meeting of high-tech engineering and handcrafted excellence. Yet few, our writer included, know what the acronym actually stands for, so he asks the people who built it.
Technogym doesn’t just make the best gym equipment in terms of design, comfort and ergonomics, it also promotes a lifestyle. Visit its new mega-office in Italy and you’ll find the company’s research and innovation centre, the production factory and an in-house university that offers tra…
Giorgio Armani is Italy’s most successful fashion designer and a self-described perfectionist so it’s little wonder then that he couldn’t put up with chartering others’ substandard yachts and created his own. Twice in fact, because Maìn is his second custom build, and it perfectly encap…
Few luxury brands ever attain acknowledged supremacy, yet ask anyone versed in superyachts who builds the finest and one name resounds: Feadship. In this rarefied world, where Boat International ranks the largest vessels, size still matters enormously.