Fight Uber with Lambo: Cancún drivers battle taxi app with exotic car service

Drivers in Mexican resort city hope fleet of a ‘super-luxury’ vehicles on demand will help lure high-rolling tourists away from competition after series of protests

What objects of desire UHNWIs around the world are buying

Investments of passion performance and global luxury spending trends. Luxury is getting a makeover, all at the speed of social media. The consumer of “luxury” is increasingly digitally-savvy, time-sensitive, socially aware, and more and more concerned about sustainability. The industry surpassed €1 trillion in retail sales value in 2015 and delivered healthy growth of 5% … Read more

For wine producers, small is beautiful – but big is useful

Size isn’t everything in a vineyard – but it matters

The OFM 50: what we love about the world of food in 2016

From Heston Blumenthal’s sweet shop to the policeman turned pie-maker, here (in no particular order) are 50 of Observer Food Monthly’s favourite things

Ed Ruscha on Marcel Duchamp: ‘He was a guiding light’

When conceptual art’s godfather finally had a retrospective, it was in California – where a group of young artists welcomed him to a game of naked chess

Zadie, Alexa, Coco: why does fashion love naming bags and clothes?

The industry obsession with certain monikers is no coincidence. Plus, was the reaction to Kim Kardashian’s naked selfie an example of body-shaming?