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Leading the Pack: Tumi's Tegra-Lite Brings Race-Grade Armour to Travel
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Leading the Pack: Tumi's Tegra-Lite Brings Race-Grade Armour to Travel

Tumi's Tegra-Lite collection is as tough as Tegris, a polypropylene thermoplastic composite the brand holds exclusive rights to use in luggage. Borrowed from motorsport and body armour, it brings serious resilience to the well-travelled wardrobe.

27 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke

Fuel for Thought: Inside the Decade-Long Oil Crisis Gripping Gaza
people · culture

Fuel for Thought: Inside the Decade-Long Oil Crisis Gripping Gaza

With Israel controlling the fuel that enters Gaza through the Abu Salim crossing, a shortage almost a decade old endures. Once eased by smuggling tunnels from Sinai, the territory now confronts an unrelenting energy squeeze.

23 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke

Rise And Shine: Jeweller Ibtissam Saab Cuts A Dazzling Figure In Marrakech
products · Jewellery

Rise And Shine: Jeweller Ibtissam Saab Cuts A Dazzling Figure In Marrakech

Impeccably groomed and endlessly multi-tasking, Ibtissam Saab directs her new in-store display while zooming her camera across deep blue tanzanites and bright green emeralds, pear-shaped jewels cut to a gleaming, flawless finish.

20 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke

State Of The Art: A Hypnotic Stage Where Slow Processions Unfold
places · Unusuals

State Of The Art: A Hypnotic Stage Where Slow Processions Unfold

Velvet curtains part on a stage where schoolchildren, ballet dancers, a funeral march and a runaway bride drift past in exaggerated slow motion, set to melancholic classical music amid baroque, hypnotic splendour.

17 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke

Riding Away: The Midual Type 1 and Its Six-Figure Justification
products · Bikes

Riding Away: The Midual Type 1 and Its Six-Figure Justification

Can a motorbike really command a six-figure price? At 140,000 euros, the Midual Type 1 manages it, not through gold plating but through two decades of patient perfection and genuinely original, innovative engineering thinking.

11 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke

A Mixed Bag: How Longchamp's Le Pliage Folded Its Way to Fame
products · Bikes

A Mixed Bag: How Longchamp's Le Pliage Folded Its Way to Fame

Foldable, adaptable and bought by more than thirty million owners, Longchamp's Le Pliage has triumphed since 1993. Inspired by Japanese origami, its light, water-resistant nylon body and Russian leather trims made it an enduring everyday classic.

8 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke

Built to a Fine Art: The Fondation Louis Vuitton Rises in Paris
places · Unusuals

Built to a Fine Art: The Fondation Louis Vuitton Rises in Paris

A striking new landmark has appeared in the Bois de Boulogne. Completed in October to showcase the cultural ambitions of France's biggest maison, the Fondation Louis Vuitton cost almost 170 million dollars before land and art.

5 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke

Sea Change: Could the Kormaran Reinvent the Future of Luxury Boating?
products · boats

Sea Change: Could the Kormaran Reinvent the Future of Luxury Boating?

We awarded the Kormaran as a toy, yet it may prove far more than that. This shape-shifting craft hints at the future of luxury boating, even if for now it remains one extraordinary indulgence.

2 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke

Huracán Season: The Theatre and Thrill of Driving a Lamborghini
products · cars

Huracán Season: The Theatre and Thrill of Driving a Lamborghini

Driving a Lamborghini is pure theatre, staged to within an inch of its life. Our writer recalls the comic ordeal of reversing a windowless Countach, scissor door raised, before surrendering to the marque's sensational sense of drama.

30 Dec 2014 By Official Bespoke

Getting A Look In: A Candid Encounter With Model David Gandy
fashion · products

Getting A Look In: A Candid Encounter With Model David Gandy

At one metre ninety-one, with a handshake that swallows your hand whole, David Gandy is a genuinely imposing presence. In a crisp white t-shirt and skinny jeans, the model proves disarmingly down-to-earth.

27 Dec 2014 By Official Bespoke

Editor's Letter: Looking Forward As One Year Quietly Becomes The Next
people · culture

Editor's Letter: Looking Forward As One Year Quietly Becomes The Next

With this issue bridging 2014 and 2015, we adopt a more forward-angled view, looking not only back but ahead. Among the year's preoccupations: the carbon footprint of our ever more far-flung travels.

24 Dec 2014 By Official Bespoke

This is La Petite Maison’s Secret Recipe for Success
places · Dubai

This is La Petite Maison’s Secret Recipe for Success

We’ve loved La Petite Maison ever sinced it opened in Nice in the late 1980s. But now that it’s becoming a global force to be recokoned with, we thought it time to salute the magic of LPM and also investigate the truth behind its rapid expansion. These days, you’ll be hard-pressed to fi…

22 Dec 2014 By Official Bespoke