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If you happened to be looking for a rock archetype you’d be hard pressed to find a better specimen than Faris Badwan. The lead singer of hard-to-describe British five-piece The Horrors, is a sort of Gothic Mick Jagger with more swagger – tall, thin, a big mop of black hair framing his b…
It was a tall order if there ever was one: build a Louvre in the desert, in a city with a negligible tourism industry and a dubious (at least from a European perspective) cultural scene. But there was no turning back once a 400 million Euro deal was signed between the UAE and France in …
Taking its name from the Sanskrit word for peace, Aman, plus Pulo, which is Tagalog for island, Amanpulo in the Philippines may date back to 1993 but it’s still one of the world’s greatest island escapes. 1. Yeah okay, so the bad news is that the journey to the Pamalican Island in Palaw…
There’s something about meeting Salwa Chalhoub that gives you an irrepressible urge to collect art. She floats into the three-storey Opera Gallery in Downtown Beirut with her long dark silky smooth hair and the rhetoric of a young, cool and seemingly seasoned capitalist, and of course y…
On Phuket's classy north-west coast sits a tranquil resort with the power to overturn every preconception. Beyond the country's familiar clichés lies twice the glory, and this hideaway proves it beautifully.
From yacht parties to submarine rides, the new members-only app Velocity Black promises the ultimate lifestyle at your fingertips. If you do not sign up by the end of this piece, the writer vows to eat his hat.
Creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri is off with a bang with her first collection for Dior. For the Dior Spring 2017 collection, Maria Grazia Chiuri opted to give the iconic brand a well-needed makeover. It’s the kind of rebranding that involves some serious whipping into shape, yet re…
China's oldest business jet operator has become the first in the world to take possession of a Boeing BBJ787 — a 220-seat airliner reborn as a 214-square-metre private palace for just 40 passengers.
From Manchester to the Pritzker Prize, Lord Foster of Thames Bank has shaped skylines worldwide. The Foster + Partners founder reflects on the journey that made him one of architecture's most celebrated names.
Here at last is the sensational Mercedes-AMG Project One, a hypercar costing 2.8 million dollars and packed with the technology that conquered Formula One. Built at Brixworth, it borrows Lewis Hamilton's actual 1.6-litre hybrid engine.
With so many amazing watches around, it’s never an easy thing picking favourites. But if we had to put our money where our mouth is, then these are the watches we’d be buying right now. Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona In 2016, Rolex refreshed their massively popular Daytona li…
Motorcycle brand MV Agusta has had a tough time of late. After facing mounting debts it was forced to implement a drastic company restructure and then lost its powerful minority shareholder, Mercedes-AMG, who clearly had enough of passionate Italians who have little regard for corporate…