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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.
Having moved from high-end London residences to luxury hospitality in Kuala Lumpur, Dymitr Malcew now unveils the Floating House. Rooted in his childhood on the Polish coast, it blends nature, architecture and technology upon the water.
In 2012, some 260,000 children were newly infected across sub-Saharan Africa, where 700 babies are born with HIV daily, mostly at birth. Without treatment, half will not live to see their second birthday.
Anti-American sentiment can seem as intrinsic to the Middle East as anti-Middle Eastern feeling is to America. Against that backdrop, the work of Kate Seelye and her sister, Ammanda Salzman-Seelye, takes on real significance.
Meeting Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud recalls a Tod's exhibition of life-sized photographs revealing what six female entrepreneurs carry in their bags, a quiet testament to how much the modern woman truly carries.
Once a cramped, utilitarian workboat offering little comfort or protection, the superyacht tender was an afterthought. Today these vessels are reimagined with the style and luxury their elegant motherships have long deserved.
First class or private? An enjoyable debate, until recession bites and the jet is the first thing to go. With small-aircraft orders dwindling to a third of their 2008 peak, manufacturers are struggling.