Global Liveability Index 2018: Vienna displaces Melbourne as the most liveable city in the world

  Global Liveability Index 2018 assesses which global cities provide the best or worst living conditions. This year, many cities have seen improvements in their ranking due to increasing stability across most regions. In this year’s Global Liveability Index 2018, Vienna displaces Melbourne as the most liveable city in the world. “The concept of liveability … Read more

Rare fashion shows now available for streaming on the Bloomsbury Fashion Central

YNAP, the world’s leading online luxury fashion retailer, and Bloomsbury, the dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary teaching and research in fashion and dress partner to bring Fashion Video Archive to Educational Market. The resource will be made available for streaming on the multi-award-winning Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform in 2019. YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP (YNAP) and Bloomsbury announced a partnership … Read more

‘Five years ago there was nothing’: inside Duqm, the city rising from the sand

Oman’s sparsely inhabited coast of fishing villages and Bedouin camps is being transformed into industrial city with port, luxury hotels and housing for 111,000

HondaJet Elite, the ultimate time machine, debuted at AirVenture 2018

  HondaJet Elite aircraft made its United States debut during the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture 2018 in Oshkosh. Honda Aircraft Company revealed the new upgraded aircraft at a special hangar event ahead of the 2018 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The HondaJet Elite has achieved an extended range of … Read more

Christie’s Auction House Sales Are Up 26%, Leading The Art Market

  Christie’s Auction house sales are up 26% to almost £3 billion, leading to the highest half-year total in company history. 80% of the highest selling objects in the first half of 2018 were sold at Christie’s. Continued global demand, audience engagement with the diversity of collecting categories and the historic Rockefeller sales helped drive … Read more

How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%

In an age of astonishing wealth, nothing reveals the lives of the ultra-rich like the FT’s unashamedly ostentatious luxury magazine.

By Andy Beckett