TIMELESS TREASURE

Luxury rarely reaches the level of iconic status achieved by the Birkin bag. For decades, this coveted accessory has captured the imagination of fashion enthusiasts, celebrities and tastemakers alike. The bag’s origin story can be traced back to a chance encounter between Jane Birkin and Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight from Paris to London. The actress …

INSIDE THE STUDIO

Despite dizzying advances in digital design and AI-generated imaging, a pencil or biro sketch remains the most efficient means of conveying a designer’s vision at Aston Martin’s Design Studio in Gaydon. “It’s fast, and a way of expressing and communicating with the other people in the team,” says Miles Nurnberger. As Aston Martin’s Director of …

VAKYRIE AMR PRO

There’s no shortage of fast cars in the world. Speed and acceleration are more accessible than ever as the automotive arms race continues at pace, percolating down to everyday, mass-produced road cars. But, very occasionally, there comes a car that redefines the boundaries of performance – a radical reinterpretation of what’s physically possible when rubber …