Author: Alex

Amina Ghali on inheriting the Azza Fahmy legacy — growing up in a workshop, training in Italy and the UK, and why the Wonders of Nature…

Golden Lily arrives in Abu Dhabi — a Hong Kong maison whose 122-carat Sri Lankan sapphire and 60-carat Colombian emeralds embody jewellery as dynasty and inheritance.

Talar Artinian — from war-torn Lebanon to Thailand to Dubai — on a polka-dot set that survived decades, and why beauty emanates from happiness, not the…

Jacob Arabo on arriving in America with nothing and a photographer's eye — how Biggie Smalls walked through the door organically, and why Astronomia rotates once…

Evgeniia Romanenko on building a 1,500-person business at 18, the crisis that taught her to release the ego, and why happiness is not yoga on schedule.

Roberto Coin — hotelier turned jeweller, and how a late-night book about Egyptian pharaohs gave every Roberto Coin piece its secret ruby, pressed against the wearer's…

Teodor Doré on hearing an orchestra at age four that only he could hear — and performing Rachmaninoff's lost suite at Carnegie Hall for an audience…

Nata Vuokila and Lara Buividis of LN Family on 17 years following their woman — from the first parcel to Paris to discovering that Dubai buys…

AK Royalty's 42-metre gold-painted superyacht — the only 24-carat gilded vessel in the charter market, with an on-board resortwear boutique and a toy garage that includes…

Askar Ramazanov on the kinship between architecture and fashion — from Chanel's Coco quoting proportions to Virgil Abloh's Mies van der Rohe obsession, with Abu Dhabi…