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Suppose you have more money than you could spend in a lifetime, possibly two. What do you do with it once you are gone? A wry meditation on philanthropy, legacy and the choices great wealth leaves.
Why did dynamite's inventor endow a prize for peace? Some see atonement for his explosive legacy, others the influence of pacifist Bertha von Suttner. We unravel the enduring mystery behind Alfred Nobel's celebrated award.
A dispiriting encounter in a London shop forces an unwelcome truth: a forty-six-year-old man, however youthful he feels, is fooling no one. A rueful confession about age, vanity and the padding that quietly accumulates.
Couples have wrestled with infertility throughout history, yet modern medicine now lets almost anyone conceive. With babies made in the laboratory rather than the old-fashioned way, the business of baby-making has all but left the bedroom.
For something so bound up with joy, the wedding dress is a rather sad thing: the most expensive gown a bride may ever buy, then left hanging dejectedly after just one glorious day.
As mass fashion encroaches, premium houses are rethinking their strategy through aggressive campaigns, celebrity endorsements and mass collaborations. We examine how both markets now compete for the same customer eager to trade up to luxury.
From Rolls-Royce and Piaget to Versace and Michael Kors, luxury houses are courting China's voracious upper middle class. McKinsey puts the country at twelve per cent of global sales, the unofficial economy aside.
From the 1940s onward, a handful of designers redefined how we dress. We begin with the American pioneer Bonnie Cashin, who treated clothing as kinetic art and helped make sportswear a wardrobe staple.
Few road revolutions have matched 1966's bumper crop of innovation. Kevin Hackett charts how Tesla, co-founded by Elon Musk in 2003, blazed a fresh trail with the Roadster after decades of cautious progress.
We round up the destinations no traveller should miss, beginning with London. Neither riots nor economic gloom can dent the imperial entrepot, and with the 2012 Olympics looming there has never been more afoot.
From Oscar Niemeyer's audacious National Congress in Brasilia onwards, we tour the landmark civic buildings where space and light, rather than decorative detail, prove to be the truest expression of luxury.
At the American University of Beirut, five hundred chic spectators perched on steps and ledges, leather bags and singular accessories in hand. Aficionados and designers alike gathered for one purpose: to debate innovation in fashion.