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In 1977, a five-year-old watched a Lotus Esprit plunge off a Sardinian jetty and morph into a submarine in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. That audacious scene began a lasting love affair with the marque.
It is a delicious irony that the Dutch controlled the spice trade for centuries while their own food stayed resolutely bland. We explore how a famously functional culinary tradition is finally finding its flavour.
Say hello to Gigi Hadid’s kid sister, whose dreams of riding at the Olympics were shattered by Lyme disease. Now she’s following in her sister’s footsteps and fast becoming a belle of the fashion circuit. Sisterhood – not in the feminist sense – has become something of an Instagram fixa…
At last year’s Davos World Economic Forum, John Defterios caught up with the Managing Director and CEO of King Abdullah Economic City, Fahd Al Rasheed, so we could learn more about their 100 billion USD megaproject in Saudi Arabia that’ll one day span an area the size of Washingto…
Dubai's forest of residential towers suggests a glut of empty homes, yet the reality is more nuanced. With over twenty per cent of properties held by absentee owners, common assumptions about oversupply deserve scrutiny.
You could say Yves Saint Laurent started it all in the 1960s with his Le Smoking but Racil, an elegantly honed London-based label launched last year by Lebanese fashion designer, Racil Chalhoub, takes the rebellious female tuxedo as a starting point, and then reinterprets it with a char…
Our pick of the regional fairs that actually merit your time, from Doha's growing jewellery and watch showcase to Dubai's vast boat show and a Mediterranean photography festival in Beirut.
Behind superyachts such as Cakewalk and Madame Gu, Andrew Winch is among the industry's best-known designers. Now, in collaboration with China Business Aviation Group, he turns his celebrated eye to private aviation.
At Otahuna Lodge, a beautifully preserved historic mansion near Christchurch, it is the silence you notice first, broken only by distant birdsong and a breeze through the willows. Utter bliss awaits.
Genoa-born Stefano Pastrovich designs yachts he calls functional, unique and beautiful. Their unconventional character, he suggests, owes much to a childhood spent designing and building model gliders by the historic maritime port.
How does one turn the mundane into the exceptional? Ken Kessler considers Vertu's answer, transforming the most ubiquitous of modern devices into a covetable luxury object for those who would always choose excellence over disposability.
Achingly beautiful, fast and rare, Aston Martin's Lagonda Taraf is a super saloon with genuine space for four. Best of all, it was conceived specifically with the Middle East in mind.