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Karl Lagerfeld brought Chanel's 2014/15 Cruise collection to a man-made island owned by Dubai's Crown Prince, staging eighty-four looks for a thousand guests ferried in by abra boats.
Anna Karenina's famous opening, that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, frames our writer's argument. Family businesses, like Tolstoy's families, tend to command attention precisely when their fortunes falter.
Drawing into Johore Bahru, our writer realises everyone is staring. Passengers, guards, cleaners and vendors reach for their phones; parents point him out to their children. Only the elderly seem entirely unmoved by the spectacle.
Now under Audi's ownership via Lamborghini, Ducati appears unchanged, following its mind-blowing 1199 Panigale with a scaled-down, more affordable sibling. Yet that is where the resemblance ends, for the 899 is something altogether different.
Step inside Caracalla and you enter a world of grand columns, ornate frescoes and velveteen diwans, at once ancient and Oriental. Everyone here moves with a dancer's gait, in hushed, international seriousness.
The company bears one name, but the business is very much three. For Azza Fahmy, working alongside her two daughters proves the whole is greater than its parts, marrying traditional handcrafted jewellery with a thoroughly contemporary outlook.
Practicing interior design and architecture out of the same office, professions as separate as they are entwined, Dada & Associates and TheOtherDada operate in a way that is interdependent but independent. audience signals @ambrouille As family businesses go, the Dadas rather break …
Faced with mass production, a rapidly changing automobile industry and the development of new materials like nylon and plastic, the venerable luxury trunk and bag maker, Moynat closed its doors in 1976. What it didn’t know then was that the company would one day become the sister brand …
Pulling up to the lights on Rodeo Drive in eerie silence, our writer permits himself a little smugness. While every car around pollutes, he is piloting the world's first truly green sports car.
Founders Carl Cunow and Nathan Romano explain how their New York swimwear brand built a global following on clean silhouettes, technical fabrics and trunks designed for the discerning modern traveller.
At first sight, you’ll never guess that Marianne Hoayek is the right hand of one of the world’s strongest and most respected central bank governors. Ignore those good looks and youthful exuberance because underneath lies a powerfully intelligent and determined person. Marianne Hoayek ma…
I once thought fear would grow more familiar with age. Yet as time wears on, it morphs like mercury in the mind, slipping quietly into spaces and filling them with cold, metallic trepidation.