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Top 5 Picks From Neiman Marcus Fantasy Christmas Gifts List, 2019
Santa makes everyone happy every year on Christmas and thanks to his magnanimous association with Neiman Marcus and their extravagant Fantasy Gifts list, this year will be no different. Making the holidays uber-luxurious is Neiman Marcus; back with the collection of lavish items. The rich are getting richer and so is the fantasy list. With luxe factors…
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Inside the Luxury Resort with Healing Water and Moroccan Royalty
I float in a seawater hydromassage bath as a series of jets go about their ritual on my body, gently pummelling my muscles. The experience is step one in a trilogy of signature treatments at Morocco’s new five-star Vichy Celestins Spa Hotel Casablanca. As I’d been led to the room, I was promised that this rather…
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In Conversation with Globally Renowned Artist, Felipe Pantone
Art world phenomenon Felipe Pantone is constantly on the move. Already a budding rebel when, aged 10, he arrived in Spain from his native Buenos Aires, he moved from streetwise experiments in graffiti to forging his own path at the intersection of vintage typography, optical art and kinetics. His visual language resonates in a collision of…
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Fashion Show & Floating Candles: Dior Lights up Marrakech for Cruise 2020 Launch
The world of haute-couture rejoiced this week at the launch of Christian Dior’s ‘Cruise’ 2020 collection in Morocco’s most vibrant and sprawling city, Marrakech. The collection marked a pivotal change for the label, featuring a new multicultural vision led by creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri. The event, hosted outside the usual fashion week calendar, took…
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ASPIRE Pick of the Week: Naomi Campbell Has Big Plans For Africa
The globally-popular Naomi Campbell was in Durban, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal, for the FORBES WOMAN AFRICA 2019 Leading Women Summit, to talk about her abiding interest and investment in the African continent. As a supermodel who has scaled stratospheric heights in fashion, Naomi Campbell has graced global runways and magazine covers, so when she came…
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Africa’s Emerging Economies to Take the Lead in Consumer Market Growth
Africa’s emerging economies present exciting opportunities to global businesses for expansion in retail and distribution. Changing demographics and improving business environments across the continent will be just two of the factors contributing to rising household consumption, which is predicted to reach $2.5 trillion by 2030. Seven countries—Nigeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Tanzania, Kenya, and…
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ASPIRE Pick of the Week: An Insider’s Travel Guide To Marrakech!
When you think of Marrakech, you might not immediately dub it a fashion capital. But the subtlety of its beauty—the regal architecture, the energy of the medina at dusk, the terracotta-hued buildings and expansive palm desert before the backdrop of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains—creates a poetic amalgam of wanderlust that has inspired fashion and art…
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Kenya Becomes the 5th Richest Country in Africa
Over the past 10 years, Kenya has acquired wealth at a rate of 73% becoming the 4th biggest African country in wealth growth. In 2017 alone, the country grew its wealth at 2%. Kenya now has more than KSh10.4 (104 billion USD) trillion in wealth, a 9.5% increase from the previous year’s total wealth of Ksh…
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ASPIRE Pick of the Week: Mind Blowing Modern African Architecture
From Nigeria to Morocco, a series of world class buildings representing the best of modern architecture are appearing across the continent. African Architecture seldom gets attention in the building and design press. However, recently across the continent, young national and international talent, as well as the occasional heavy-hitting star architect, are creating innovative and sustainable…