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The London-based founders explain how a playful Swahili greeting in Kenya, meaning traveller, inspired their label's name. They discuss their ethical focus and the original, catchy identity they were determined to create together.
Offered the chance to go backstage at Hackett's first-ever runway show and to interview the man behind the label, we caught the first plane out, expecting drama and chaos and finding something altogether calmer.
Ride the escalator to the atrium of New York's Conrad and you might mistake it for a museum. This unusual five-star has no spa, but art fills every corner and room, complete with guided tours.
One of the world's largest and least-worn diamonds, Tiffany's bulbous 128.54-carat Yellow, has been given a brand-new look. Unearthed in South Africa in 1877, it was cut by gemologist George Kurtz into an eighty-two-facet brilliant.
In art, as in fashion, one must learn the rules before breaking them. That is precisely what master tailor Nazareno Fonticoli did in 1945, founding Brioni and fusing relaxed Mediterranean silhouettes with peerless Savile Row technique.
David Lake and Ted Flato took lessons learnt in Morocco and applied them across the United States. We tour Arizona's Brown Residence, a desert house of panoramic views from which our region might learn.
Barcelona is celebrated for Gaudi and its Gothic Quarter, not skyscrapers. Yet two modern towers stand out: Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar and the soaring Hotel Arts, both symbols of the city's post-Olympic renaissance.
Syrian-Argentine impresario Alan Faena wears many hats across fashion, property and hospitality, though always a white one. Michael Tannenbaum meets the man behind the Faena Art District on the Buenos Aires waterfront.
From the unmissable genius of Gaudí to the legendary tapas of 1929-vintage El Xampanyet, our two-day itinerary distils the Catalan capital's architecture, flavours and unhurried pleasures into one gloriously well-spent weekend.
I learned to people-watch in Paris, arriving from Amman as though dropped into the very epicentre of fascination. The first rule: ignore the locals, whose conversations rarely rise above the morning's metro delays.
In a region where recycling has scarcely taken hold, Averda's Maysarah Sukkar wants to reshape Middle Eastern habits. Matt Nash meets the Sukleen chief in Beirut, where he insists encouragement, not preaching, wins people over.
A Georgetown study finds architecture graduates facing 13.9 per cent unemployment, higher even than the arts, while half the next cohort may be jobless or underemployed. We ask whether a degree still pays.