The film on everyone’s lips these days is Julian Schnabel’s Miral. I finally watched it during the Doha Tribeca Film Festival where it received a standing ovation from an audience of Qataris, world cinema buffs,…
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2011
Over half a million visitors queued for hours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City this summer to witness a monumental, retrospective exhibition of the late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s astonishing…
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“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -The Queen, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” The dissonance of a…
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Pity Tripoli’s poor Rachid Karami International Fair. In hindsight, it didn’t stand much of a chance. Not because of any inherent flaws in the project itself, which would have provided Lebanon’s northern port city with…
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Dinner on Turtle Island can be quite an experience. You can never be sure just who’ll be sitting beside you. Guests over the past few years have found themselves chatting with Ringo Starr and Barbara…
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At 82, Frank Gehry has designed his first skyscraper and it has transformed Manhattan’s skyline. Official Bespoke tracked down the spirited architect to discover his side of this twisting, rippling tower. “I’m getting tearful,” says…
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Synonymous with femininity, sensuality and style, combining traditional craftsmanship with innovative, contemporary design, La Perla is a lingerie label with a history and an even more promising future. Its elegant lines and carefully chosen materials…
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It is one of those jewellery shops you cannot simply go to and just choose and buy. The 67-year-old founder, though a secretive man, has managed to garner a cult following and as if to…
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Lebanese-Mexican Carlos Slim Helú has Created Museo Soumaya as an Extraordinary Civic Gift to Mexico
It is not rare for billionaires to become philanthropists, art patrons or collectors at-large, but it is definitely uncommon for the well off to build museums showcasing their very own private collections. That is however…
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Male divas do exist, and David LaChapelle is one of them. The photographer, filmmaker, set designer and overall legend was discovered by Andy Warhol while he was a busboy at New York’s Studio 54 club.…
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