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The Bear Necessities: Toufic Farah on Surviving the Coming Sovereign Debt Storm

After August 2011's global re-pricing of risk, Toufic Farah argues quantitative easing is mere life support and warns where the next shocks will land, urging investors to own real assets.

11 Jul 2012 By Official Bespoke

Easy Rider: The Harley-Davidson Softail Slim, a Welcoming First Big Bike

Easy Rider: The Harley-Davidson Softail Slim, a Welcoming First Big Bike

You may prefer four wheels to two, but Harley-Davidson's new Softail Slim is a welcoming machine for riders moving up to a large-engined bike for the first time, equal parts retro objet d'art and motorcycle.

8 Jul 2012 By Official Bespoke

Power Trip: The Mercedes-Benz G-Class Reborn At Last After Thirty-Three Years
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Power Trip: The Mercedes-Benz G-Class Reborn At Last After Thirty-Three Years

Built for the military and sold to civilians since 1979, the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen has barely changed yet repeatedly cheated discontinuation. Now, after thirty-three years, popular demand has earned the perennially cool cross-country icon a fresh overhaul.

8 Jul 2012 By Official Bespoke

Edible Art: Phoenicia Chef Rabih Fouany Takes On Our Eau de Vie Challenge

Edible Art: Phoenicia Chef Rabih Fouany Takes On Our Eau de Vie Challenge

He may be only 33, but Rabih Fouany has been head chef at the Phoenicia's principal restaurant, Eau de Vie, for four years. So when we dared him to cook exclusively for us, he did not even blink.

3 Jul 2012 By Official Bespoke

Matteo Molinari: The Rising Menswear Star Fusing Tailoring With Crochet

Matteo Molinari: The Rising Menswear Star Fusing Tailoring With Crochet

Invigorating is the word for Matteo Molinari, who marries sharp tailoring with handcrafted crochet in a menswear world ruled by tradition. One sensational student collection has already marked him out as fashion's fastest-rising star.

3 Jul 2012 By Official Bespoke

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Dr Marwan Iskandar on the Arab Spring Uprisings
culture · places

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Dr Marwan Iskandar on the Arab Spring Uprisings

A year after revolution swept the Arab world, Dr Marwan Iskandar weighs the economic decline, entrenched corruption and popular fury that toppled regimes from Tunis and Cairo to Tripoli, Damascus, Manama and Sanaa.

1 Jul 2012 By Official Bespoke

The Best of Kotor: A Connoisseur's Guide to Montenegro's Walled Gem

The Best of Kotor: A Connoisseur's Guide to Montenegro's Walled Gem

From the seventeenth-century Clock Tower guarding the main gate to the bustling Trg Od Oružja square and the seafaring treasures of the Maritime Museum, we chart the essential sights of this storied Adriatic city.

29 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

people · culture

Speak No Evil: Michael Karam on the Quiet Demise of the Speak-Your-Weight Machine

Remember the scales that announced your weight for a coin? Michael Karam traces the curious disappearance of the speak-your-weight machine from Britain's high streets and chemists, and the very human reluctance behind its fall.

28 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

Adore Kotor: A Gatsby-Style Gathering of the International Elite in Montenegro

Adore Kotor: A Gatsby-Style Gathering of the International Elite in Montenegro

With a guest list of four hundred guarded like a secret, the party summoned Russian oligarchs, mining magnates, European aristocrats and countless models. Beneath Montenegro's mountains, we witness a glittering who's who of global wealth.

25 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

places · Restaurants

Peking Dick: Anissa Helou Ventures to Beijing to Taste an Unusual Aphrodisiac

Having written The Fifth Quarter, a book devoted to the animal's less noble innards and extremities, Anissa Helou had never encountered this particular delicacy, so she travelled to Beijing to sample it for herself, purely for research.

23 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

Silver and Gold: Toufic Farah on Protecting Your Wealth With Precious Metals
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Silver and Gold: Toufic Farah on Protecting Your Wealth With Precious Metals

In turbulent markets where cash earns nothing and inflation erodes everything, Toufic Farah argues that physical gold and silver remain the oldest, soundest insurance against a costly restructuring of the global financial system.

21 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Best and Worst Employers

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Best and Worst Employers

At Google's famously energetic Googleplex, free all-you-can-eat restaurants somehow leave nobody heavier, and Fortune crowns it the world's finest workplace. We weigh the corporate giants where careers either flourish wonderfully or quietly wither.

20 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke