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Defiant from the start, artist Monira Al Qadiri persuaded both her parents and Kuwait's education minister to send her, aged sixteen, on a Japanese scholarship reserved for boys, the first of many bold leaps.
Is it a fashion shoot or a car commercial? Both, as it happens. Cadillac Middle East's new campaign reveals a proud, confident personality for a marque now recalibrated, independent of General Motors and relocated to Soho.
Age and inventiveness alone would qualify Jaquet Droz among the most venerable watch houses, but Pierre Jaquet-Droz did more. One of the first Europeans to embrace export, he sent his creations to the courts of India and China.
As he steps down as chief executive of his eponymous label on the diamond jubilee of his birth, we celebrate the self-taught visionary who turned a fashion house into a true lifestyle empire.
The intimate Orcaella by Belmond glides along the Chindwin and Irrawaddy, the rivers at the heart of Myanmar. Nick Walton boards the new cruiser amid rice paddies, limestone cliffs and the laughter of curious children.
Lebanese designers Nicolas Moussallem and David Raffoul, winning ever more international recognition, are lively company whose conversation rarely runs straight. Long friendship lends them an easy banter, full of inside jokes and the odd affectionate bout of bickering.
London-based designer and naval architect Philippe Briand is enjoying a career-defining year. The media-shy Frenchman, whose mantelpiece already groans with awards, has unveiled new sailing superyachts under his own name and fresh projects for the Vitruvius motoryacht brand.
In 2004, Studio Libeskind, with Zaha Hadid Architects and Arata Isozaki, won the redevelopment of an abandoned thirty-six-hectare plot that once held the Fiera di Milano. Their bold master plan seems quietly touched by the Middle East.
Roman St Clair and Maya Khoury argue that people crave community and connection. As the drab indoor food court loses its appeal, they explore why the traditional suburban mall must turn itself inside out to survive.
Many of us romanticise the lives of writers, that is, until we try being a writer ourselves. It was the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek who said that writing is a form of self-torture, which immediately brings to mind those incredibly frustrating moments of writ…
Mansoor Bhatti collects not things but people and their ideas. Through his Dubai-based creative agency Thingsbypeople, he has gathered a roster of international visual artists across photography, fashion, illustration, graffiti art and advertising.
Far more than gadgets and racing, Big Boys Toys is a platform for cutting-edge innovation. This November it returns to its original home, Abu Dhabi, after three years staged in neighbouring Dubai.