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Easy Breezy: How Hanane Hotait Channels Riviera Glamour With A Quirky Twist
people · design

Easy Breezy: How Hanane Hotait Channels Riviera Glamour With A Quirky Twist

The Paris-based, Lebanese-heritage designer turns 1960s Riviera nonchalance and her father's white shirts into a timeless, chic and quietly subversive label that is already crossing continents.

3 Jul 2018 By Official Bespoke

Foot Loose: How the Nou Project Turns Sneakers Into Collectible Art

Foot Loose: How the Nou Project Turns Sneakers Into Collectible Art

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor meets the Nou Project, makers of collectible shoes for art lovers and sneakerheads, and traces how trainer culture has travelled from underground street style to mass-market obsession since the first Air Jordans.

1 Jul 2018 By Official Bespoke

Here are the Top Six Reasons you Should Buy All Your Beauty Products From Lynn’s Apothecary
people · beauty

Here are the Top Six Reasons you Should Buy All Your Beauty Products From Lynn’s Apothecary

This one-stop beauty shop by Lynn Khoury Soubra brings together the world’s most natural products so that you can rid your daily regimen of synthetic and chemical ingredients. 1. There’s a brick-and-mortar boutique in Saifi Village in Beirut but the website ships worldwide, and that mea…

30 Jun 2018 By Official Bespoke

Record Crowds and Big Sales at the Dubai International Boat Show
products · boats

Record Crowds and Big Sales at the Dubai International Boat Show

The 26th Dubai International Boat Show set records: 26,389 visitors, 350 exhibitors and over 800 brands. Gulf Craft alone reported more than twenty-three million dollars in transactions across the bustling four-day event.

7 Jun 2018 By Official Bespoke

The Nonconformist Arabic Singer Yasmine Hamdan Bares All Through Her Soulful Music
people · culture

The Nonconformist Arabic Singer Yasmine Hamdan Bares All Through Her Soulful Music

Listening to Yasmine Hamdan’s music, her soaring and unique voice and vocal style, reminds me of listening to John Coltrane blow his horn. When she sings – as when Coltrane plays sax – Hamdan improvises, she creates, and it comes from within. It’s her soul. It’s the one space, as a Leba…

4 Jun 2018 By Official Bespoke

Ngoni, the 58-Metre Sailing Superyacht Built to Be a Beast
products · boats

Ngoni, the 58-Metre Sailing Superyacht Built to Be a Beast

Build me a beast, the British owner told Royal Huisman, not a sheep in wolf's clothing. The result, Ngoni, is an edgy, innovative weapon of a sailing superyacht: fast, furious and uncompromising.

21 May 2018 By Official Bespoke

Virgil Abloh Disrupted the Fashion Industry with Off-White and Now he’s Doing it Again at Louis Vuitton
people · design

Virgil Abloh Disrupted the Fashion Industry with Off-White and Now he’s Doing it Again at Louis Vuitton

Picture a successful fashion designer 50, 20 or even ten years ago, and you’d likely be thinking of a white man tailoring evening gowns in London or Paris. But today, one of the world’s most watched, most discussed designers is a black man from Chicago; the 37-year-old son of Ghanaian i…

5 May 2018 By Official Bespoke

What Was New at This Year's Art Dubai, From Residents to Highlights

What Was New at This Year's Art Dubai, From Residents to Highlights

Alongside the customary exhibits, Art Dubai introduced a Residents section, inviting eleven artists from around the world to spend weeks in the city creating work inspired by the local environment.

1 May 2018 By Official Bespoke

Is it a Rolex? An AP? Neither. It’s a Highly Controversial H. Moser & Cie
products · Watches

Is it a Rolex? An AP? Neither. It’s a Highly Controversial H. Moser & Cie

H.Moser & Cie’s provocative and tongue-in-cheek humour was in full force this year as they trolled the industry with a one-off Frankenstein-like ‘Swiss Icons’ watch that mixed an Hublot case, a bezel combining the shape of an AP and the look of a Rolex, the numerals and crown protec…

17 Apr 2018 By Official Bespoke

Hi-Power Cycles Made an All-Terrain E-bike That Will Blow Your Mind
products · Essentials

Hi-Power Cycles Made an All-Terrain E-bike That Will Blow Your Mind

Unlike other e-bike manufacturers, LA-based Hi-Power Cycles don’t throw together pre-fab parts. Instead, they almost entirely craft their bicycles in-house, and in the case of their latest product, no cost was spared in its production process. Named the Revolution X, it took a team of a…

16 Apr 2018 By Official Bespoke

Top of the World: Segera’s Bird Nest in Kenya is a Luxurious 1,200 USD-a-night Avian-Style Lodge For Two
places · Africa

Top of the World: Segera’s Bird Nest in Kenya is a Luxurious 1,200 USD-a-night Avian-Style Lodge For Two

Remember Jochen Zeitz? He’s the former CEO of Puma who now uses his millions to change opinions on climate change. He’s also a guy who fell in love with Africa and bought Segera, a Kenyan wildlife park that’s three times larger than Manhattan. Well, now he’s gone and collaborated with t…

16 Apr 2018 By Official Bespoke

Keanu Reeves’s Arch Motorcycle Company Makes One of the World’s Coolest Bikes
Bikes · products

Keanu Reeves’s Arch Motorcycle Company Makes One of the World’s Coolest Bikes

Arch Motorcycle Company is an LA-based boutique manufacturer that was co-founded by hard-core rider and actor Keanu Reeves along with chopper whiz Gard Hollinger. “Our partnership was forged around the first bike that Gard made with me,” says Reeves, referring to a custom build that Hol…

16 Apr 2018 By Official Bespoke