official bespoke Magazine - April - May 2015

In this issue

What a better way to begin our Edgy issue than by being thrown into the ring in Saudi Arabia's Arena Mixed Martial Arts gym with its founder Nasir Alabdaly? Once we recover from that, we meet some other trailblazing creative entrepreneurs such as Assaad Razzouk, CEO of a London-based clean energy developer and founder of South East Asia’s first Middle Eastern contemporary art gallery, as well as the artistic director behind the Hermès-owned Shang Xia, China’s first homegrown luxury brand. In terms of fine living, we take you inside the cutting-edge Box House by Kuwait-based Massive Order architects and the groundbreaking computational architecture by Michael Hansmeyer, whose work is primarily about algorithms. In Paris, we attend Saint Laurent's latest show and review the new, ambitious direction the brand is taking, then it’s off to Switzerland’s for the world’s biggest jewellery and watch fair, Baselworld, before hopping on a plane to Miami’s South Beach to review COMO's latest hotel. Finally for some kicks and giggles we take the almost insanely powerful V12 bi-turbo S65 AMG Coupé for a spin before getting behind the wheel of Otam’s 58 Crazy Too, a truly wild boat.