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An athlete, adventurer and entrepreneur, the Dubai-based Yousuf Al Hashimi carries wisdom well beyond his 27 years. Co-founder of Ahdaaf Sports Club, he is on a mission to get the Middle East moving and its waistline shrinking.
Karl Lagerfeld closed Chanel's autumn-winter couture show with a visibly pregnant bride in crêpe de Chine and a gold brocade cape, the set inspired by the terrace of a 1930s Le Corbusier home.
They say crossing the Drake Passage is the price of seeing Antarctica. From the Tierra del Fuego port of Ushuaia, a veteran geologist warns that some crossings are calm and others anything but.
Iguazu, the first Alen 68 completed, will appear at September's Monaco Yacht Show. This versatile 20-metre motorboat promises to stir buyers as a chase boat, a striking day boat or a comfortable overnight cruiser.
Above the surreal casino and cantilevered curves of Singapore's Marina Bay Sands sits Waku Ghin, drawing diners by name alone. That name is Tetsuya Wakuda, the chef whose reputation underpins its considerable appeal.
Youssef had never left Lebanon, yet he was certain that wherever he went, flies would flock to honey. A double Macallan, an Australian accent and a Saint Laurent suit set the scene.
Founded in 1972 as a local tie factory, Stefano Ricci is now an opulent menswear house. Under the direction of Ricci's sons, Filippo and Niccolo, the family firm opens the doors of its Florentine headquarters.
In our part of the world, family businesses hold profound weight, their inherited wisdom guiding decisions for generations. The world's most enduring luxury brands, our writer finds, regard their own pasts in much the same way.
Founded by an Indian family from Kerala, this third-generation, Dubai-based group has grown from a single 1960 school into an educational empire valued at as much as 550 million, with bold plans for the decade ahead.
Society has banished most old stigmas to history, our writer observes, advertising folk aside. Yet nobody spares a thought for only children, those afflicted souls forced to grow up without brotherly or sisterly shoulders.
Born in 1900 to help motorists find food and lodging across France, the Michelin Red Guide has become the world's most powerful authority on restaurants and hotels, and a chef's most coveted accolade.
An undifferentiated stem cell can, in theory, become any tissue the body needs. Harvested from bone marrow or fat, its potential applications are legion, from aiding chemotherapy recovery to treating degenerative neurological disorders.