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Inside Inanna Reborn’s first runway, with Byredo

Inanna Reborn, a fashion project by Her Highness Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, made its first runway appearance in the Mleiha desert. Built around ideas of feminine power drawn from ancient queens and mythology, it looks at how those histories can carry into the present without feeling fixed in the past. The show unfolds […]

Artist Ali Cherri files landmark complaint over Israeli airstrike on his family home in Beirut

Franco-Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri has filed a civil complaint before France’s War Crimes Unit against Israel, alongside the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). Filed on 2 April, the complaint concerns a November 2024 strike on Cherri’s family home in the densely populated Noueiri neighbourhood of central Beirut, which killed seven civilians — […]

MiMi Mei Fair is serving Lunar New Year in four courses

From February 5 to March 4, MiMi Mei Fair marks Lunar New Year with a limited-run four-course menu shaped by ritual, symbolism and abundance. Created in honour of the Year of the Fire Horse, the experience draws on Cantonese dining traditions where prosperity, longevity and renewal are expressed through shared dishes and deliberate gesture. The […]