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Patek Philippe prides itself on making the most mechanically complicated and precious watches, so what happens when their single most popular model racks up a waiting list of over ten years? They cancel it. That’s right. Here’s everything you need to know about the Nautilus and
Our issue 81 cover star – Yousra Mohsen, is the face of Karoline Lang’s latest collection but, instead of featuring front and centre as she did last season, this time, the young, gorgeous and highly talented dancer is teaching a class of untrained women how to move, in unison and …
Delivered in 2019, Flying Fox is an extraordinary 136m luxury megayacht, built by Lürssen. She’s the kind of vessel that would normally be wrapped in a shroud of mystery, except she’s not, as she was made available for charters (for which you’d need a spare $4M a week …
Starting in Lyon and ending in Paris next to the the famous Eiffel Tower, the Austrian bike phenom Fabio Wibmer manages a gnarly urban freeride unlike we have ever seen before. With a multiple stair set on Montmartre and a huge bridge jump to an almost flat landing at La Défense, Wibmer…
Perhaps, like us, you’ve always admired the bravery of Dakar Rally drivers. Well if that’s the case then you’ll enjoy this one. It’s Ken Block letting rip across Saudi Arabia in the all-electric race car Extreme E Odyssey 21.
It’s not every day that you see a fashion industry icon promoting a brand other than their own but that’s exactly what Marc Jacobs is doing here for (LVMH stable-mate) Givenchy. Starring alongside movie industry veteran Charlotte Rampling, and under the creative direction of Clare…
Three days after globally unveiling its Black Badge Cullinan online, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars organised the car’s first real-world drive event in the Middle East, inviting a select number of the region’s most important journalists and bloggers (including Official Bespoke’…
Putting public figures through the grinder in the name of charity, there are no secrets on our Speak Up game show. In this episode, we challenge designer Jessica Khoueiri (of Jessica K and Little Bluffers) to answer as many quick-fire questions as she can in 80 seconds and thereby win a…
Meet the guys behind Anghami, the Middle East’s leading music streaming service and app. Eddy Maroun and Elie Habib take us inside their brand new offices and tell the story of how two guys on a ski slope came to be the heads of a company that now has 73 million users, 30 million songs,…
Can a supercar ever be a daily driver? CARIOSITY’s host Issam ‘Simi’ Merheb takes a McLaren 720S through its paces in the streets of Beirut, testing the car’s ability to handle chockablock roads and daily errands. Powered by a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 that at pumps out…
Hollywood superstar Will Smith stays at the Kempinski in Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates and has a go on the neighbouring indoor slope: first on some skis then in a giant inflatable ball. If nothing else, his enthusiasm is wildly contagious.
This gorgeous weekend getaway beach house is located on the coast in Amchit, Lebanon, around 40km north of Beirut. It was designed by Karim Nader Studio and Blankpage Architects, a Lebanese firm comprised of Walid Ghantous and Patrick Mezher. Their dramatic 430sqm, three-bedroom design …
The mid-engined, rear-wheel-drive 720S is not a sportscar, rather it’s an incredibly engineered daily driver supercar that embodies the very best elements from McLaren’s admittedly short history: the usability of the 570GT, the thrills of the 675LT and, even, the pace of the P1 hy…
Given the Bauhaus centennial is in 2019, we thought this video was very timely. It goes inside Tecta, one of just a few companies in the world that is faithfully replicating the original pieces of Bauhaus — the school that pioneered the union of art and industrial design for the everyda…
Saudi Arabia made history by becoming the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The humanoid robot, named Sophia, held a press conference in Riyadh in front in front leaders of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), telling them how ‘honour…
An inspiring short on Vitra, the family-owned Swiss furniture company, beginning with its roots as a licensed producer of Herman Miller pieces for the European market through its ambitious architectural commissions and its eclectic contemporary design collaborations.
Jeff Koons is the most successful American artist since Andy Warhol, and this is a very brief but beautifully put together documentary about him. Narrated by Scarlett Johansson, the video was commissioned by MOCA Los Angeles for their 2017 gala honouring the artist.
So Aston Martin acquired three vast hangars in St Athan, in Wales. But before it began converting them into a new production facility (that will be churning out its new SUV in 2019, among other vehicles), the company decided to have a little fun first with 28 of its historic cars.
From his early days dancing in the underground rap scene of Memphis, Tennessee, to international stardom and being called “what you might get if Mikhail Baryshnikov and Chris Brown’s genes were combined in a blender,” Lil Buck displays his unique moves in the halls of …
Limited to just 200 examples, all of which have already been sold, Ferrari’s $2million LaFerrari Aperta hybrid convertible sportscar is a hell of a way to celebrate the marque’s 70 years of production. And in this promotional clip, the Scuderia’s F1 race driver, Sebastian Ve…
Experience what it’s like to be the owner of Ulysses (now renamed Andromeda), an incredible 107-metre expedition yacht by Kleven Maritime. With space for 30 guests and an extensive inventory of tenders and toys, including a 21-metre catamaran motorboat capable of 50 knots, an elev…
Spike Jonze – the director of Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002) and Her (2013) among other blockbusters – created this perfume ad for Kenzo and it’s wonderfully bonkers. Featuring music by Sam Spiegel & Ape Drums featuring Assassin and starring American actress Ma…
One of the coolest pieces of classic car footage ever made, this video is the result of a collaboration between Red Bull Japan and Takeshi Kimura of Car Guy along with the director Luke Huxham, who apparently wanted to see what it would be like to set off from Tokyo and charge up the sn…
Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage of our favourite US-born Palestinian-Dutch supermodel, Jelena Noura Hadid (otherwise known as Gigi Hadid), who was taken to Tahiti for the 2016 Sports Illustrated bikini shoot. Oh and by the way, if you want to read the interview we had with h…
We’ve all seen videos of crazy drifting on public streets in Saudi Arabia but we aren’t so aware of the number of people dying every year while taking part in such activities. The problem is so big now that the government is clamping down hard with severe punishments for any…
This is a wonderful real story about a Korean millionaire who moved to Bahrain eleven years ago and spends each and every morning cleaning rubbish off the streets in his neighbourhood. Mr. Yo we applaud you.
Starting in Riyadh and then heading to Buraidah, Medina, Jeddah and Taif, this interesting four day, 2,000 kilometre journey through the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was completed by a convoy of McLaren 12C and 12C Spider supercars, led by the Saudi racing driver Faisal Binladin.
In this excellent documentary Chad Sayers and Chad Manley go looking for the one of the world’s strangest and most illogical of ski environments: Ski Dubai. In the midst of a desert city of dizzying ambition, this ‘local hill’ climbs 60 vertical metres out of a luxury …
Skateboarding is global phenomenon and therefore has the potential for multi-cultural exploration. ‘This is Qatar’ is a skate documentary by Enrique Mayor. It tells the tale of a group of skaters from Spain who make a trip out to Qatar. Watch their Middle Eastern adventure, …
NSFW. German e-portal, Liaison Dangereuse, dares to venture into controversial waters with this ad. In our opinion, there’s nothing wrong with it and, if anything, humanising the veil (and the abaya for that matter) can never be a bad thing. It’s certainly memorable, and not degra…
Bad Girls’ is a song by Maya “M.I.A.” Arulpragasam, the British-Sri Lankan artist. The video, which was shot in Morocco, was created in solidarity with the women to drive movement of Saudi Arabia. It may be laden with crass stereotypes including prancing Arabian horses…