Top tipple: rare whisky outperforms wine and gold as 2015 investment
Leading index for scotch whisky rose 14% last year, while wine fell 0.4%, gold was down 10% and FTSE 100 index lost 4.9%
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Luxury British Brands of Tomorrow: Walpole’s 12 trailblazing innovators
Luxury Brands of Tomorrow programme by Walpole. Always keen to support emerging British talent, UK luxury brands association Walpole revealed the 2016 selections for the Brands of Tomorrow programme. The 2016 line-up announces those trailblazing innovators who have caught the attention of the world of luxury, considered to be paving the way for generations to … Read more
Rolex Enterprise Awards Jury for 40th anniversary year
Rolex has announced the names of the renowned scientists, environmentalists, innovators and explorers who will comprise the Jury to choose the 10 winners of a commemorative edition of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise. The 2016 series of the Awards marks the 40th anniversary of this international philanthropic programme that has given vital support to 130 … Read more
Silicon Valley approach to mobility: See Faraday Future’s FFZERO1 Electric Race Car Concept in action
FFZERO1 Electric Race Car Concept wants to achieve a seamless interaction between vehicle, data, and driver. At this year’s CES, California-based Faraday Future (FF) introduced its plan to rethink mobility unveiling its FFZERO1 Concept and the proprietary engineering platform on which it’s built, in addition to revealing the details of a strategic cooperation with Letv, … Read more
Meet the future stars of sustainable fashion
From repurposed fishing nets to restored leather and everlasting denim, these young designers are creating clothes with ethics woven in. Tamsin Blanchard introduces five Bright New Things
Museum of Tomorrow: a captivating invitation to imagine a sustainable world
Rio de Janeiro’s new museum, focusing on ideas rather than objects, ecology more than technology, is a little trippy, a little hippy, very worthy but rarely dull