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New York Fashion Week Ends Tonight: Hilfiger at the Plaza, Khaite at Ten in the Navy Yard, and Ralph Lauren's Bow at 86

The spring 2027 shows close with Thom Browne on Tuesday. What stood out: Hilfiger's prep reunion in the hotel he lived in, Catherine Holstein's 1920s lingerie and shrunken leather, Ralph Lauren's feathered denim. Then London, where McQueen comes home.

Sep 15, 2026

Silver Went to $121 and Came Most of the Way Back. The Shortage That Did It Has Not Gone Away

Silver set a record just under $122 an ounce in late January, then lost close to half of it. The London squeeze behind the spike has eased rather than ended, and the metal is still up almost 74 per cent on the year.

Aug 18, 2026

A Pavilion Built From Police Riot Shields Asks What a Material Remembers

The Pangolin Shield goes up on the Strand next month, assembled from Indian police shields and rain shields over bamboo. Reuse in architecture usually argues about carbon. This one argues about meaning.

Aug 17, 2026

Project Sunrise Brings the World's Longest Flights Closer

Qantas is preparing aircraft for nonstop Sydney routes to London and New York, raising practical questions about comfort, health, scheduling and demand.

Jul 28, 2026

The Gulf's Autumn Route Map Is Being Redrawn Toward Asia and Russia

Gulf Air returns to Kuala Lumpur on 29 September, Riyadh Air adds London and Dubai, Sharjah gets a Gatwick link, and flynas is flying to St Petersburg and Sochi behind a new visa arrangement.

Aug 17, 2026

Latest Trends

Britain, France and Canada Ban Settlement Goods, Nine States Follow, and Israel Closes the British Consulate

Ed Miliband told Parliament the trigger was the E1 tender for 1,200 homes east of Jerusalem, a red line Britain drew two decades ago. The ban covers settlement goods and the services that build settlements, not Israel itself. Twelve countries signed on.

Sep 10, 2026

One Visa, One Fee, Six Countries: the Gulf's Schengen Moment Is Reportedly Piloting This Year

A unified GCC tourist visa has been discussed for years and is now said to be entering a pilot phase, at an estimated 100 to 150 dollars for 30 to 90 days. The economics of it are more interesting than the convenience.

Aug 21, 2026

Crypto

The Exchange Has Built a Crypto Index That Deliberately Leaves Out Bitcoin and Ether

CME and CF Benchmarks switched on two indices on Monday. One is a broad market benchmark built around bitcoin and ether. The other excludes both of them and tracks ten other assets, which is a statement about what the rest of the market is for.

Sep 1, 2026

The Gulf's Restaurant Scene Is Reinventing Itself in 2026

After two years of shocks, Gulf dining is rebuilding around homegrown brands and confident local concepts rather than imported franchise names.

May 19, 2026

Oil Below $100 Still Leaves Central Banks With a Difficult Week

Energy prices have eased from their sharpest fears, but the Fed, Bank of England and Bank of Japan still face inflation signals pulling against softer growth.

Jul 28, 2026

New York Opens Fashion Month With a Debut and Closes It With Thom Browne

Seventy shows across six days, spring collections shown in autumn, and a designer taking over a house whose founder's name is still on the door. The September calendar is set.

Aug 16, 2026

Gulf Architecture's Bold Decade: GCC Skylines Transform

Neom, Qiddiya, Red Sea Project. The GCC is building at a scale that rewrites the architectural conversation. These aren't buildings. They're competing visions for the future.

Jan 14, 2026

Sports

The Gulf's Sporting Decade: What F1, Boxing and LIV Golf Actually Bought

Billions poured into golf, motorsport, boxing and tennis. As the numbers come due, the Gulf's sports strategy is quietly being rewritten.

Sep 10, 2025

Summer 2026 Travel: The World Cup and a Turbulent Region Collide

A World Cup spanning three countries and closed Middle East airspace are both reshaping summer routes and fares. Here is what is actually happening.

Jul 10, 2026

A Tanker Took Three Projectiles in the Strait, and This Time the Traffic Data Moved

Brent topped 92 dollars on Tuesday, up from just over 88 at Monday's close. A tanker was hit crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Monday by three unknown projectiles, and transits through the channel fell to 107 in the week to 30 August from 121.

Sep 1, 2026

Sports

The Saudi Pro League Spent About 230 Million Euros This Summer, and the Biggest Deal Was a Winger From West Ham

The seventieth season began on 13 August. Crysencio Summerville to Al Hilal at 64.5 million euros is the summer's largest move, and the shape of the spending says more about the league's direction than the total does.

Aug 24, 2026

Designing From an Archive Is Harder Than Designing From a Mood Board

A twenty-three piece collection drawn from research into the Barbican's original interiors arrives this month. Working from a real archive imposes constraints that a reference image never does.

Aug 17, 2026

Latest Trends

Why Smash Burgers Took Over Dubai's Menus

Thin, crispy-edged patties have muscled aside gourmet stacks across Dubai and the wider Gulf, and the reasons go well beyond taste alone this time.

Oct 5, 2024

The 2026 Pritzker Went to an Architect Who Builds Small, Strange Things Out of Stone and Fibreglass

Chile's Smiljan Radic Clarke is the fifty fifth laureate of architecture's most significant prize, cited for work that is immediately recognisable and conceptually evasive. In a decade of megaprojects, the jury picked the opposite.

Aug 22, 2026

Modest fashion's global moment and the GCC's role in it

Once niche, modest fashion is now a USD 295 billion market, and the GCC's influence is reshaping global style. Major luxury brands are paying attention.

Jul 30, 2024

The Greenest Building Is Usually the One Already Standing, and the Arithmetic Is Not Close

Building a new home of the same size can produce up to thirteen times the embodied carbon of refurbishing the old one. That number has started appearing in planning decisions, which is how a technical argument becomes a policy.

Aug 18, 2026

Riyadh Air's First Big Asia Push Follows the Workforce

Islamabad, Lahore and Manila go on sale for a carrier still under 15 destinations. The choice says the airline is chasing volume that already exists rather than demand it has to invent.

Aug 7, 2026

Recipes

Falafel Was Almost Certainly Egyptian, Made With Fava Beans, and the Chickpea Came Later

The version most of the world eats is the Levantine one, and it is a revision. Egypt still makes it the older way, with fava beans, under a different name. The argument about who owns it is genuinely political.

Aug 21, 2026

Eight Point Seven Million Airport Customers Lost Data, and the Field That Matters Is the Number Plate

Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands lost email addresses, phone numbers, postcodes and vehicle registrations taken from car park, lounge and wifi bookings. No payment details. The combination is still enough to build a message you would believe.

Aug 30, 2026

Cost Per Wear Is the Only Fashion Maths That Survives Contact With a Wardrobe

The price tag tells you almost nothing. Divide by the number of times you will actually wear it and the expensive coat is frequently the cheap one, but only if you are honest about the denominator.

Aug 8, 2026

Latest Trends

Yope’s Private Social Network Makes the Feed Feel Old

With 15 million registrations and fresh funding, Yope is betting that small friend groups, private pages and no public feed can pull social media inward.

Jul 23, 2026

Smart Glasses Have a Style Problem Called Surveillance

AI eyewear is becoming more capable and less conspicuous, but a celebrity revolt and fresh privacy fixes show that bystanders still get a vote on adoption.

Jul 22, 2026