Issue 12

Jean-Marc Weiser of La Biosthétique on 75 years of Paris-born beauty — why there are no frontiers for the desire to feel beautiful, and what the…

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…

La Biosthétique's Colour Protection system — the science of keeping hair colour intact through Dubai's sun, hard water, and heat, from the Parisian house founded in…

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.

WHERTEIMAR's Luxury Caviar collection — Swiss glacial water, Siberian sturgeon extract, and the conviction that regeneration requires precision, not spectacle.

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…