What do you buy when you have already bought everything worth showing off? In the Gulf, a new breed of luxury collector has become almost impervious to spectacle. They have seen the …
September does not arrive quietly in Dubai; it arrives as a change of light. After months of relentless, white-hot summer – a season that bullies the senses into submission – there is …
For the well-travelled, the real luxury is no longer knowing where to go – it is knowing where everyone else hasn’t been yet. These are the travellers who swapped Ibiza’s white noise for the …
What if the ground beneath Dubai remembers everything the skyline has taught us to forget? In a city obsessed with reinvention – where coastlines shift, neighbourhoods disappear and …
Let me set the scene, because context, my darlings, is everything. It is approximately 2 p.m. on a Friday in Dubai. The air outside is doing that thing where it feels less like oxygen and …
On the resurrected Île Seguin, the monumental new art centre Large (Le Large) – helmed by curator Cecilia Alemani and designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects RCR Arquitectes – promises …
There is a peculiar, almost imperceptible violence in the way the present abandons us. This very second – the one you are currently spending, perhaps idly, perhaps with intent – is already …
In the gilded hush of a Geneva auction room, where fortunes are exchanged with the flick of a paddle rather than the vulgar rustle of a balance sheet, the true hierarchy of luxury is …
In our relentless pursuit of productivity and perpetual connectivity, we have forgotten the quiet revolution that occurs twice daily, under a cloudless sky, when the sun slips below the …
Lipstick, an object of private ritual, yet a public declaration of intent. For decades, however, the cosmetic case has largely been an afterthought – a plastic vessel destined for the …