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Taking design and performance cues from the early Vanquish and the stunning seven-figure One-77, the 2013 Vanquish is the new king of Aston Martin's line-up and our Ultimate Vehicle of the Year.
Handwriting is deeply personal, so bound to individuality that graphologists claim to read character from mere scraps. Believe them or not, it remains beautifully idiosyncratic, breathing life into static notes through every correction, crossing-out and hesitant doodle.
Bodies betray us in countless small ways, from uneven shoulders to a tilted pelvis. Warren Singh-Bartlett explains why Apsley, which tailors a bespoke suit in three affordable weeks, has earned our Ultimate Tailor award.
Fashion and architecture have long expressed the personal, social and cultural. Lately, both have moved beyond status towards complex questions of identity, as computer-aided design carries ever more intricate surfaces and unusual forms from the drawing board.
Winning pilots' loyalty is no easy task, for they scrutinise every trade-off in cost, safety and features. Since 1984, Minnesota-based Cirrus Aircraft, co-founded by the Klapmeier brothers, has devoted nearly thirty years to solving that challenge.
Launched in 1999 as the seventy-metre Boadicea, then lengthened and lavishly refitted, this transformed vessel boasts five decks and a double-height atrium. We survey the breathtaking craft redefining life aboard the world's finest yachts.
With a mischievous glint, rolled-up jeans and yellow suede shoes, Sarkis Dersahagian declares fashion irresistibly theatrical. He never imagined another life, and his playful conviction lights up our conversation about creativity, instinct and self-expression.
Step from the escalator at the Porsche Museum and a wheelless silver shell awaits, gleaming like a jelly mould of pure intent. Even unfinished, it conveys the spine-tingling promise that made the marque legendary.
Riva claims its breathtaking new Virtus defines a fresh category of motorboat. What it really does is remind us what we have been missing: ever since the early 1990s, whatever happened to the glorious open motorboat?
The Lanvin man, created by Alber Elbaz and matured by Lucas Ossendrijver, swings between opposites: boxy then slim, structured then deconstructed. It is about the productive tension, they say, between the traditional and the futuristic.
Our visit to Bang & Olufsen's stylishly contemporary headquarters in rural Jutland proves to be both an audiophile's dream and a design junkie's paradise. Ninety-seven years on, the Danish purveyor of sound and vision remains gloriously inventive.
Founded in 1856 and famed for trench coats and tartan linings, Burberry has never courted the luxury watch market, until now. Unveiled days ago and seen here first, The Britain is Swiss-made and respectably engineered.