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What lies beneath
fashion · products

What lies beneath

Chantal Thomass is a fashion designer and founder of her eponymously named luxury lingerie label. Since 1975, she’s been the creative force behind some of the world’s most beautiful, seductive and sensual female underwear. Bespoke was granted an audience with this one of a kind designer.

18 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

Ships of the desert
products · boats

Ships of the desert

When it comes to the luxury yacht business, one company stands out as a rising star: Greenline Yacht Interiors. Based in the UAE, the firm has worked with some of the most recognised names in the industry.

16 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

people · business

Name: May El Khalil

Location: Lebanon Who: Founder of the Beirut Marathon It has been said out of adversity comes opportunity and May El Khalil, founder of the Beirut Marathon, is a striking example of this. El Khalil had always run, both in her native Beirut and while living for 23 years in Lagos, Nigeria. B

13 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

World Domination: Cairo-Born Karim Rashid, the World's Most Prolific Industrial Designer
people · design

World Domination: Cairo-Born Karim Rashid, the World's Most Prolific Industrial Designer

Cairo-born Karim Rashid is the world's most prolific contemporary industrial designer, his projects spanning interiors, fashion, furniture, lighting, art, music and installations. Bespoke seizes the chance to pick the superstar designer's restless, far-ranging brain.

8 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

Vehicles/ Concorso d’Eleganza
products · cars

Vehicles/ Concorso d’Eleganza

Writer: Kevin Hackett Bella machina Intro: An annual classic car show is an event like no other, now in its 71st year, the Concorso d’Eleganza brings old world glamour to the forefront. In these financially strangulating times it can be perversely satisfying to see the occasional display o

8 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

Going Coco at the Ritz
hotels · places

Going Coco at the Ritz

For an experience of Paris fashion that is historically and culturally deeper than your average shopping spree, the Coco Chanel Suite at the Hôtel Ritz Paris is the destination de rigueur.

7 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

Handmade
products · cars

Handmade

Intro: Bentley’s latest offering, the Mulsanne, aims to reassert the British brand’s primacy at the very top of the luxury automotive field. Bespoke recently visited the Highlands of Scotland to put Bentley’s pride and joy through its paces. The first car designed entirely by the company s

5 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

The cutting edge
people · culture

The cutting edge

Across the world medical practitioners from the Middle East are making a name for themselves at the cutting edge of the profession. Here, Bespoke takes a look at some of the most prominent Arab physicians.

3 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

The ad men
people · business

The ad men

Few people can recount how Middle Eastern advertising first took off like Ramsay Najjar. A former President of the Advertising Agencies Association, founder of Saatchi & Saatchi Levant, and current chairman of Strategic Communication Consultancy (S2C), Najjar divulges all.

2 Oct 2010 By Official Bespoke

people · Tech

The walking dead

It has been just over 15 years since text messaging was first made available to mobile phone users. Today, billions of text messages fly through the airwaves each and every day, forming a bedrock of revenue and profit for the world's telecommunications companies. The widespread usage of te

29 Sep 2010 By Official Bespoke

Wonder drug
people · culture

Wonder drug

This past May the birth control pill celebrated its 50th anniversary. Created in 1960, the birth control pill, often called just the Pill, works by suppressing ovulation through the use of oestrogen or a combination of oestrogen and progestin so that the ovaries don’t release an egg that c

27 Sep 2010 By Official Bespoke

Dishy plates
people · Restaurants

Dishy plates

The Economical issue provided the perfect platform in which to take a look at the most expensive things you could digest. Without further ado, here they are in order of cost:

25 Sep 2010 By Official Bespoke