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With an eponymous label and the creative directorship of Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs has his hands full. Raya Jalabi explores how he straddled both worlds, even branding New York's West Village with stores bearing his name.
Japanese architect Tadao Ando makes masterpieces in concrete. Here, Official Bespoke takes a look at his recently completed Pringiers House in Sri Lanka. I remember the first time I saw a piece of Tadao Ando. I was visiting a friend in one of the lower-rise, village-like neighbourhoods …
There was a time when an artist had to die to be noticed; just ask Van Gogh. Today, living artists who have appropriated whole movements enjoy pop-star fame, yet seem overtaken by their endless self-reproduction.
We invite leading galleries to nominate their finest work, beginning with Galerie kreo's B.B.D. console by Martin Szekely, an elegant marriage of marble, crystal and aluminium that elevates the everyday with quiet, timeless luxury.
Modest and long overlooked, Lebanon's Youssef Tohme is about to be discovered. At Villa Tohme, a residential project in the hills north of Beirut, a narrow hallway opens astonishingly onto an ocean of space and light.
After an overnight flight to Bologna, our writer arrives in Maranello full of anticipation. Anyone may drive through the Prancing Horse's hometown, but few earn the privilege of stepping inside its world-famous factory gates.
Based in London but forever bound for Saudi Arabia, the creative director explains the arts organisation's evocative name and how its work stays cutting-edge yet at times distinctly rural, neither fringe nor mainstream.
From 4711, the world's oldest perfume formula traced to a seventeenth-century monk, to Thomas Burberry's enduring 1901 trench coat, we gather the icons of design and craft that have endured, generation after generation.
To walk along the Nile by Tahrir Square is to tread the heart of Egypt's revolution, where protests still draw thousands. Built by Khedive Ismail Pasha, these streets carry history in every stone.
Mao Zedong launched a fashion revolution that designers can only dream of, persuading hundreds of millions of Chinese to abandon their old clothes and the world they represented for a single uniform vision.
A year after revolution broke out across the Arab world, Bespoke examines the factors behind the uprisings, from economic conditions and popular discontent to a historical overview of the regimes that were overthrown.
From the buzzing, hopeful chaos of Tunis airport, the air thick with post-revolution urgency, we journey south to the desert oasis of Tozeur, seeking a Tunisia transformed at the very edge of change.