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A Beautifully Produced Look at the Dedicated Indoor Ski Community of Dubai
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A Beautifully Produced Look at the Dedicated Indoor Ski Community of Dubai

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 …

16 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Fashion Forward: How Luxury Labels Are Embracing the Digital Age
fashion · people

Fashion Forward: How Luxury Labels Are Embracing the Digital Age

The department-store pilgrimage for spring/summer collections is over. From Burberry's reimagined Regent Street flagship to inventive campaigns, fashion houses are dissolving the boundary between reality and technology to enter the twenty-first century.

15 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Tahir, Who? Designer Tahir Sultan, the Indo-Kuwaiti Poster Boy for Cosmopolitanism

Tahir, Who? Designer Tahir Sultan, the Indo-Kuwaiti Poster Boy for Cosmopolitanism

Half-Kuwaiti, half-Indian and at home across three continents, Tahir Sultan brings an architect's training to a fashion career. Govind Dhar meets a rising designer in his New Delhi home, marked for success and household fame.

13 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Bounty Without Borders: How Arab Capital Is Building Global Luxury Brands
people · business

Bounty Without Borders: How Arab Capital Is Building Global Luxury Brands

Behind the glitter lies a quieter tale of ambition. From Bahrain's Investcorp steering Tiffany towards global expansion, Arab investment houses are increasingly acquiring famous names and helping carry them triumphantly across the world.

11 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Don't Judge a Book: The Pretensions and Pleasures of Fine Wine

We invoke Bordeaux and Bourgogne as though born to them, scouring shelves for something suitably foreign before dinner. A wry meditation on wine snobbery, anxious hospitality and the theatre that surrounds the simple act of drinking well.

8 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Past Present: Olivier Gougeon and Marie-Hélène Mouawad Revive Old Beirut at Villa Clara

Past Present: Olivier Gougeon and Marie-Hélène Mouawad Revive Old Beirut at Villa Clara

In creating Villa Clara, husband-and-wife team Olivier Gougeon and Marie-Hélène Mouawad have not only brought a little of old Beirut back to life, they have turned it into a delicious taste of the times.

6 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Fade Away: Why Curators Now Wield the Art World's Greatest Power
people · culture

Fade Away: Why Curators Now Wield the Art World's Greatest Power

For five years curators have crowned ArtReview's Power 100, eclipsing the likes of Hirst and Saatchi. From Hans Ulrich Obrist to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, we examine the quiet figures now steering contemporary art's direction.

4 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Global Expansion: How Mohamad Bitar and Fadi Malas Took Just Falafel Worldwide

Global Expansion: How Mohamad Bitar and Fadi Malas Took Just Falafel Worldwide

When Mohamad Bitar struggled to find a falafel in Dubai, he turned his disappointment into Just Falafel, a venture to take the humble dish to new audiences. With Fadi Malas as chief executive, the idea is going global.

2 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

All That Jazz: A Blistering Night With Saxophonist Jed Levy
culture · places

All That Jazz: A Blistering Night With Saxophonist Jed Levy

Leaning into the microphone, Jed Levy puffed out his cheeks, blew hard on his sax and launched into a blistering solo that fixed every ear in the house front-of-stage, before rocking back and taking a quick bow.

28 Feb 2013 By Official Bespoke

Shaking Things Up: Broadcaster Ahmed Shihab-Eldin on a Chaotic Media Industry

Shaking Things Up: Broadcaster Ahmed Shihab-Eldin on a Chaotic Media Industry

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin arrived at our Manhattan coffee shop with a frenzied confidence, fiddling with phone, hat and jacket. His physical hyperactivity mirrors the racing pace of a mind navigating the chaotic industry he has chosen for himself.

26 Feb 2013 By Official Bespoke

Well Crafted: The Quietly Prolific Design World Of Nayef Francis
design · places

Well Crafted: The Quietly Prolific Design World Of Nayef Francis

When Nayef Francis mentions a twenty-year passion for design, our writer is taken aback, for the man hardly seems out of his twenties. He proves, in fact, to be an exceedingly well-preserved thirty-seven. Hardly ancient.

21 Feb 2013 By Official Bespoke

Unlike Many Promising Saudis, Ahd Kamel Gets No State Support, Yet She’s Definitely One of the Kingdom’s Most Talented Artists

Unlike Many Promising Saudis, Ahd Kamel Gets No State Support, Yet She’s Definitely One of the Kingdom’s Most Talented Artists

In another life, Ahd Kamel might have been a lawyer. She might have been an animation artist. Or she might have stayed right home in Jeddah. But in this life, Ahd is a filmmaker and actor, readying herself for the world stage. The filmmaker/actress known simply as Ahd is at the helm of …

19 Feb 2013 By Official Bespoke