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Portside Founder Alek Vernitsky Takes the Headache Out of Private-Jet Ownership
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Portside Founder Alek Vernitsky Takes the Headache Out of Private-Jet Ownership

A dinner-table grumble about the paperwork of flying private inspired the Harvard graduate to build a San Francisco platform that shows jet owners exactly where their money goes.

3 Mar 2018 By Official Bespoke

Returning to the Peninsula Paris, the Capital's Most Exclusive Address
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Returning to the Peninsula Paris, the Capital's Most Exclusive Address

Three years after first sampling the Peninsula Paris, our writer comes back as a guest of Air France. The most exclusive of the Asian powerhouses to reach the City of Light still dazzles.

2 Mar 2018 By Official Bespoke

Star Attraction: Megève, The Quiet Charm Of France's First Ski Resort
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Star Attraction: Megève, The Quiet Charm Of France's First Ski Resort

Small, quaint and quietly French, Megève has happily escaped the nouveau-riche crowds of Courchevel and St Moritz. Originally a medieval town, it became France's first purpose-built ski resort, and remains gloriously understated.

24 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

Diamondogs: Pascale Habis and the Made-in-Lebanon Label Rewriting Luxury
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Diamondogs: Pascale Habis and the Made-in-Lebanon Label Rewriting Luxury

Creative director Pascale Habis explains why her Beirut slow-fashion house rejects mass production for timeless, impeccably finished pieces, reviving the garde-robe tradition and prizing individualism over the conformity of any It Bag.

21 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

Is UBI the Only Viable Solution For When AI and Robots Take Away Our Jobs?
people · Tech

Is UBI the Only Viable Solution For When AI and Robots Take Away Our Jobs?

Let’s take a moment to look into the not-too-distant future. Imagine that a robot has stolen your job and pushed you into a lower-wage occupation, if not out of the workforce altogether. Now, this isn’t science fiction, for a University of Oxford study estimated that due to advances in …

11 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

The Roman Temple of Mithras Reborn Beneath Bloomberg's London Home
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The Roman Temple of Mithras Reborn Beneath Bloomberg's London Home

Six metres below Bloomberg's new billion-dollar European headquarters lie the restored remains of one of London's oldest buildings: a Roman temple to Mithras, the bull-slaying deity, now open free to the public.

11 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

What the Tech! The New Audi A8 Reimagined as a Smart Mobility Solution
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What the Tech! The New Audi A8 Reimagined as a Smart Mobility Solution

The new Audi A8 is more than a luxury saloon, more than a car even. It is the winner of the first heat in the race to turn luxury cars into smart transportation and mobility solutions.

8 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

Why the General Public is Starting to Get Fed Up with Social Media Influencers
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Why the General Public is Starting to Get Fed Up with Social Media Influencers

It’s hard to believe Instagram was launched only eight years ago. Before that, “no filter” was an expression used to describe a loose-lipped party guest, and “blessed” was how you felt inside when something really good happened. There were no “Followers” and “Influence…

7 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

Reem Acra, the Couturier Dressing Red Carpets Across the Globe
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Reem Acra, the Couturier Dressing Red Carpets Across the Globe

Having conquered America first, Reem Acra dresses the world's most dazzling stars, runs ready-to-wear alongside bridalwear, reaches over 150 leading retailers and now mentors on television. She is, arguably, a household name.

4 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

A Middle East Space Race? That’s Right, the UAE Actually Has Plans to Colonise Mars Within the Next 100 Years
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A Middle East Space Race? That’s Right, the UAE Actually Has Plans to Colonise Mars Within the Next 100 Years

On September 12th, 1962, John F. Kennedy told the United States, “We choose to go to the Moon.” What JFK and the American public didn’t know yet was that by investing in its space programme, it was also getting memory foam, precision GPS, the cardiac pump, food safety …

2 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

Dubai Watch Week: Inside the Gulf's Grandest Gathering of Horological Titans
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Dubai Watch Week: Inside the Gulf's Grandest Gathering of Horological Titans

Held over five days at the DIFC, the third edition of Dubai Watch Week traded insider stories on fakes, etiquette and icons, with Bovet, MB&F and H. Moser among the headline names.

1 Feb 2018 By Official Bespoke

A Leading Stem Cell Scientist May Have Unearthed The Fountain of Youth
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A Leading Stem Cell Scientist May Have Unearthed The Fountain of Youth

We at Official Bespoke have been granted the worldwide exclusive to break the story on a miraculous new FDA-approved hydrogel developed by Dr. Augustinus Bader, a German doctor specialised in stem cell research. Originally developed to heal burn wounds in days, the patented erythropoiet…

31 Jan 2018 By Official Bespoke