#30 - Ultimate Award Issue

What's Inside

The articles in this issue.

1. peopleAlexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty is the Largest and Most Ambitious Fashion Exhibition Ever Staged
2. peopleOil Or Nothing: The Engineer Who Built An Energy Fortune From Scratch
3. peopleAudacious Vision: HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on Well-Calculated, High-Risk Investment
4. hotelsVisceral Impact: Herzog & De Meuron Reshape The Beirut Skyline
5. peopleBlast from the Past: Jonathan Weiss and the Hand-Built Audio of Oswalds Mill
6. placesMuch Kneaded: How Space, Money and Mountains Shaped the City of Muscat
7. fashionIt Takes Choo: Jimmy Choo Steps Confidently Into The World Of Menswear
8. peopleLighting Up: Dimitri Saddi on Building .PSLAB Into a Global Lighting Brand
9. peopleStamp of Origin: Charting a Century of Palestinian History Through Postage Stamps
10. placesA Cut Above: Joey Ghazal's Upscale Steakhouse Lands at Beirut's Zaitunay Bay
11. peopleBig Deal: The Landmark Mergers and Acquisitions Reshaping the Region
12. fashionArchival Revival: Hermès Reissues Jean-Michel Frank's Finest Furniture Designs From the Rive Gauche
13. fashionMagna Cum Laude: The Visionary Couturiers Who Shaped Twentieth-Century Fashion
14. cultureGoodwill Hunting: The Non-Profit Rebuilding Iraq's Isolated Art Community
15. peopleModel Behaviour: Elisa Sednaoui on Modelling Since Sixteen and Her Rising Acting Career
16. placesGoodwill Hunting: Iraqi Artists Return To Venice After Decades Of Absence
17. productsAbove And Beyond: Why Abramovich's Eclipse Took So Long To Deliver
18. peopleSuccess Is Built Upon Failure: The Setbacks Behind the World's Great Innovators
19. peopleGoing Strong: Ferragamo Creative Director Massimiliano Giornetti on Reinvention and Enduring Brand Values
20. placesHats Off to Fez: A First-Timer's Guide to the World's Largest Medina
21. peopleGet Carter: The Surprisingly Modest Home Life of an Ex-President
22. placesPicture This: The Mobile Photobooth Capturing A Party's Craziest Moments
23. peopleFilling Tom's Shoes: How Frida Giannini Steered Gucci Back to Calmer Waters
24. hotelsA Measured Stroke: An Architect Who Turns Constraint Into Quiet Invention
25. placesTalk Of The Town: Recreating The Ivy's Between-The-Wars Glamour In Dubai
26. placesFit for a King: Touring Muscat's Glittering Royal Opera House With Geoffrey Wheel
27. designOut Of The Closet: Christian Lacroix Turns His Flamboyance To Furniture
28. productsLittle Wonder: When Rolls-Royce Lent Its Craftsmanship To A Mini Cooper S
29. peopleRolling Out: Rolls-Royce Chief Torsten Muller-Otvos on Surging Middle East Sales
30. fashionFashion Sense: Mr Porter, The Considered E-Tailer For Discerning Men
31. placesSky's Not the Limit: Inside Etihad, the Middle East's Multi-Award-Winning National Airline
32. peopleA Kingdom's Milestone: Princess Nora and the University That Bears Her Name
33. hotelsHappiness Is A Beach At Abu Dhabi's Sprawling New Park Hyatt
34. peopleDriven to Design: Car Designer Karim Habib on Shaping the Road Ahead
35. productsEye Candy: Pomellato's Capri Collection And The Joy Of Everyday Jewellery
36. peopleThe Write Track: The Acclaimed Novelist Hailed As Arabic Literature's Nabokov
37. productsBeauty and the Beast: The Ferrari 458 Spider Wins Our Ultimate Vehicle Award
38. productsBeads Not Words: Selim Mouzannar Reinvents the Masbaha With Amber and Wit
39. peopleKnockout Punch: Giovanni Castiglioni on MV Agusta's Revival and the Formidable F3
40. peopleLast Page: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Year in Making Bespoke