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Rocking The Boat: Dubai International Boat Show Sets Sail On Its Most Ambitious Edition
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Rocking The Boat: Dubai International Boat Show Sets Sail On Its Most Ambitious Edition

As the region's flagship maritime gathering returns to Dubai Harbour, megayacht unveilings, debut flybridge cruisers and a vast new marina project are stoking bullish confidence across the Gulf's boating industry.

17 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Inspirational Endowment: How Beirut Earned Its Enduring Reputation as a Capital of Chic
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Inspirational Endowment: How Beirut Earned Its Enduring Reputation as a Capital of Chic

Beirut has been stylish since French artists and designers frequented it during the Mandate. Building on their parents' tailors and pattern-makers, couturiers such as Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad and Rabih Kayrouz now carry the torch.

16 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Playing It Cool: Berlin's Avant-Garde Blend of Music, Art, Fashion and Food
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Playing It Cool: Berlin's Avant-Garde Blend of Music, Art, Fashion and Food

Berlin has become one of the hippest places around. Its heady combination of avant-garde music, art, fashion and food offers just the right dose of R and R, that is to say reflection and relaxation.

13 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Baby Boomers and Generation Xers Watch Out, Here are Some Arab Millennials Reaching for the Top
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Baby Boomers and Generation Xers Watch Out, Here are Some Arab Millennials Reaching for the Top

They may be impatient and love selfies but Millennials are also the first generation in history to be worse off than their parents. Here are some exceptions to that rule.   AYAH BDEIR Bdeir is a 33-year-old graduate of engineering from AUB who got a Master’s at MIT before founding …

10 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Sails Pitch: Cruising Indonesia's Remote and Spellbinding Raja Ampat Islands
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Sails Pitch: Cruising Indonesia's Remote and Spellbinding Raja Ampat Islands

Whispered reverently among scuba divers, the Raja Ampat Islands lie at the far end of the world's largest archipelago. Our writer leaves civilisation behind, flying via Jakarta in pursuit of this fabled diving paradise.

10 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Exceptional by Design: Inside the Sixth Edition of Design Days Dubai
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Exceptional by Design: Inside the Sixth Edition of Design Days Dubai

The Middle East's only fair devoted to museum-quality collectible design returns to Dubai Design District, raising the benchmark with fifty international galleries, a strong British showing and a record turnout of Emirati talent.

9 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Off the Wall Thinking: Fouad Samara's Modulofts and Their Sliding Partition Walls
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Off the Wall Thinking: Fouad Samara's Modulofts and Their Sliding Partition Walls

Featuring walls that slide in and out of the building, the Modulofts by Fouad Samara Architects offer a novel answer to the age-old problem of limited space, demanding only that residents be a little rough and ready.

5 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

All Hail The Champ: DUMBO, The Beating Heart Of Brooklyn Tech
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All Hail The Champ: DUMBO, The Beating Heart Of Brooklyn Tech

An unlovely acronym for one of metropolitan New York's richest enclaves, DUMBO has reinvented its nineteenth-century industrial bones as the centre of Brooklyn's tech scene and a parade of outrageously expensive real estate.

4 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Making a Profit Graciously and with Morals, that’s the Brunello Cucinelli Way
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Making a Profit Graciously and with Morals, that’s the Brunello Cucinelli Way

Proving that nice guys do finish first, Brunello Cucinelli makes a case for graciousness as a shrewd business approach. Brunello Cucinelli is one of fashion’s most expensive labels, famous for top-end knitwear and sharp suits favoured by the likes of James Bond star Daniel Craig. …

2 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Watch Closely: Hind Seddiqi and the Rise of Dubai Watch Week
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Watch Closely: Hind Seddiqi and the Rise of Dubai Watch Week

The Seddiqi Holdings marketing chief explains how she turned a family watch-retail empire into an educational, non-commercial gathering that is placing Dubai firmly on the international horology map.

1 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke

Sole Mates: The Humble Cobbler's Workshop Behind The House Of Tod's
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Sole Mates: The Humble Cobbler's Workshop Behind The House Of Tod's

Almost everyone knows Tod's, yet few know its origins. Founder Diego Della Valle traces the brand to a modest basement cobbler's workshop opened by his grandfather in 1920s Casette d'Ete, in Italy's Marches.

28 Jan 2017 By Official Bespoke

Inside Sybaris: Perini Navi's Most Significant Launch Since Maltese Falcon
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Inside Sybaris: Perini Navi's Most Significant Launch Since Maltese Falcon

Perini Navi's seventy-metre Sybaris was the belle of last September's Monaco Yacht Show, and the Italian yard's most significant launch since the revolutionary Maltese Falcon of 2007. A different animal entirely, says Burak Akgul.

23 Jan 2017 By Official Bespoke