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Whether conjuring an interior landscape for an Amman villa or weaving ambiguity into a community centre, this architect treats technical limitation not as an excuse but as an invitation to imagine.
She sports no tamed bob or fingerless gloves. Wonder how to follow one of fashion's giants in a time of turmoil? Frida Giannini, winner of the Ultimate Fashionism Award, does it in her Gucci pumps.
After a hit debut at a wedding, Abdalla launched the mobile photobooth service Fishfayce last summer. The concept, she says, preserves the funniest, most impulsively crazy moments at any event, bound only by guests' imagination.
Carole Cadwalladr visits Jimmy Carter and finds nothing of the grand residence one imagines for a former leader of the free world, but rather the unassuming home of a moderately successful junior accountant.
Getting lost in Fez is half the fun, but a few canny rules help. We share advice for navigating the meandering labyrinth of the world's largest medina, where every alley slopes towards a gate.
Long-term brand success is a paradox: constant self-invention whilst honouring core values. Creative director Massimiliano Giornetti explains how the house founded by Salvatore Ferragamo, the celebrated shoemaker to Hollywood's stars, manages to achieve precisely that.
Akio Morita's first product, a rice cooker, burnt the rice and sold barely a hundred units. Undeterred, he and his partners learned, persevered and built one of the great electronics empires.
It may seem odd to feature a yacht commissioned back in 2005, but Eclipse was only delivered to Roman Abramovich in December 2010. Originally due a year earlier, its completion was delayed by mishaps and spiralling costs.
Sada took part in Iraq's pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, only its second appearance after a thirty-five-year absence, with a panel and a film by Oday Rasheed on Baghdad's young artists. A Christie's benefit followed.
With feline features and hypnotic eyes, Elisa Sednaoui was made for modelling, which she began at sixteen. Eight years on, the muse is proving herself on screen, with roles alongside Vincent Gallo beckoning.
The plunder of Iraq's wars stripped its cultural heritage and left artists isolated. One non-profit, known in Arabic as Sada and founded by Iraqi-born Rijin Sahakian, is working to rebuild that critical infrastructure.
Beginning with Paul Poiret, often called fashion's answer to Picasso, we honour the designers whose talent and daring transformed the way the world dressed across the course of the twentieth century.