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Few Middle Eastern couturiers have worked with fashion greats of Caroline Seikaly's calibre, yet she remains wholly down to earth. In her Hamra atelier, her young daughter bounces about as if it were her playroom.
Can you excel at work, anchor the social scene, see the world and still invest for the future? Such balancing acts have caused countless headaches, yet a rare few seem to manage every commitment with ease.
While SUVs crave the rough and sports cars chase the track, convertibles are happiest cruising empty country lanes. Open-air motoring is less about speed than the unhurried connection of sun on your face and wind in your hair.
Sudden riches, from a winning bet to a lottery, can turn heads and empty pockets. Worse still, our writer argues, is anticipated wealth squandered in the imagination long before it ever arrives.
From singing notes to smelling them, Amouage's creative director Christopher Chong has not wholly left opera behind. His latest fragrance, though, a tribute to smoky jazz clubs and Chinese film noir, proves far more personal.
Married to footballer Sol Campbell but a formidable name in her own right, Fiona Barratt trained at Chelsea College of Arts and Parsons, worked under Kelly Hoppen, then founded her own practice in 2006.
In his modernist Beirut loft, fashion designer Mohammed Al Mazen presses cake upon his guest, then loses himself in talk of turning concept into material, surrounded by white orchids and a gleaming black skull.
Arthur C. Clarke imagined a black monolith driving human progress. On architect Galal Mahmoud's concept board sits a startling counterpart, rendered entirely in white, an object our writer scarcely recognises but cannot stop contemplating.
Founder of womenswear label Dough, Dima Kassis began in Morocco, recasting the region's colour-rich, heavily embroidered caftans as minimalist pieces in muted navies and blacks, softened with lace yet faithful to their original silhouette.
We all know Diesel, the Italian label that reshaped denim in the 1990s with sophisticated cuts and bold campaigns. Its premium line extension, Diesel Black Gold, has stayed under the radar, until now.
Born in Dakar and raised in Kuwait City, Fatima Al Qadiri is a genre-mixing phenomenon in the world of electronica. The New York-based visual artist and composer’s works pivot around the politicised axes of gender, consumerism, military action and cultural stereotypes. “I believe in dji…
Born in Beirut but based in Paris and as passionate about graphic design as he is about furniture or lighting, Charles Kalpakian’s designs sit at the junction of several different overlapping worlds. A quote from Gibran. A vase called ‘Saida’. A room divider called ‘Hawa’. A light fixtu…