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WHEN DID YOU GET INTO CLIMBING? I grew up in Saudi until I was 16 at which time I moved to the UAE to go to university. I then got a job in Dubai at an advertising agency and it wasn’t until I was 25 that I got into climbing. That’s considered pretty late yet, […]
For his second collection at the French house, Anthony Vaccarello showed in its half-built Rue de Bellechasse headquarters, remixing ultra-luxe tailoring with a brute romanticism that signalled a confident new attitude.
WHY DID YOU BECOME A DESIGNER? I’ve always been an observer of things around me. It began naturally, exploring and investigating the objects in our home. It was second nature to look at and think about those products and decipher how they represented what people like and need. I’ve alwa…
ETIENNE SALOME WHY DID YOU BECOME A DESIGNER? I was attracted to the chalenge of combining technical restrictions and creative freedom; it’s an interaction that makes every day at work an experience. But there’s also a great responsibility, for just a single idea, a small sketch,…
GORDON CAMPBELL GRAY WHY DID YOU BECOME AN HOTELIER? I first considered becoming an hotelier when, as a young boy we visited as a family a supposedly grand hotel, and I was struck as to how ordinary I thought it was compared to our own home, and I thought: “I could do this better…
WHEN DID YOU REALISE YOU COULD BE A PROFESSIONAL SINGER? -I never realised I could be one, I just followed my heart and my intuition. I always loved music and the arts and it is something I grew up learning and nourishing culturally and technically. The turning point though was when I m…
The Kooples made fashion history with daring campaigns featuring real-life couples revealing how long they had been together. Last autumn, for the first time since 2008, the French label introduced a striking change to the formula.
With more participants than ever, Design Days Dubai, the region's first fair devoted to collectible and limited-edition furniture and design objects, draws ever greater interest, this sixth edition gathering fifty leading galleries from thirty-nine countries.
So Aston Martin acquired three vast hangars in St Athan, in Wales. But before it began converting them into a new production facility (that will be churning out its new SUV in 2019, among other vehicles), the company decided to have a little fun first with 28 of its historic cars.
As private firms reach for orbit and NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets, Taschen's exhaustive Moonfire reflects on the giant leap the Apollo 11 astronauts took almost fifty years ago.
You’d be hard pressed to find a truly unique prêt-à-porter piece of clothing these days. Between mass production and an insatiable thirst for the latest trend that pervades our modern world, retail fashion has become a gargantuan cookie-cutter industry. It’s also one of few sectors that…
It’s been nearly two decades since I first met Karl Lagerfeld, and over the years, I have come to realise that the only certainty in any conversation with him is that he’s likely to avoid the obvious, and there will be many diversions along the way. And so it is that when I met him [&he…