Sports & Leisure

Its aspirations were lofty from the start (it was originally opened as the centrepiece of the British Empire Exhibition in 1924), so it’s fitting that Wembley Stadium has hospitality offerings befitting the illustrious setting for 78 FA Cup Finals, six European Cup finals, the Euro 1996 football championship, the 1948 Olympic Games and – most […]

If you haven’t quite got this season’s ski bug out of your system – and who would have, given this winter’s dreamy powder and cerulean skies – roll your Perfect Moment into your Rimowa and head to the favourite of royalty, celebrities and billionaires: the discreet, storied and über glamorous St Moritz, where skiing continues […]

Jeremy Hackett and Aston Martin, Lexus and John Elliott, Louis Vuitton and Master & Dynamic are just three of the luxury collaborations we’ve featured here in  recent months. So why is it that, when the most creative brands come together, they become more than the sum of their parts, asks the head of the Verbier-based […]

Tim Latimer, Director of Firefly Collection, on how to negotiate a tricky financial black run

Especially after their England contingent’s World Cup heroics, Spurs fans driving west around the North Circular right now are feeling more than a frisson of excitement, and more than a soupçon of pride, as they glance to the side and see how their new home, the 62,000-seat development, is dominating the N17 cityscape. And it’s […]

You could call Kirby Chambliss a daredevil. But he would say he just takes “calculated risks.” As a world champion aerobat, he weaves ultra-lightweight single-engine planes through a harrowing series of “air gates”—marked by pairs of 80-foot-tall inflated pylons—with utter precision, all the while managing gusts of wind, occasional engine failures, and chest-crushing g forces. But this […]

Dubbed “the greatest athlete you’ve never heard of” by Outside Magazine, the big wave surfer, free diver, spear fisherman, and ocean environmentalist Mark Healey is the ultimate water man. Now, the sobriquet is official thanks to his partnership with British watchmaker Bremont, which unveiled the Bremont Watermanr, a limited-edition dive watch, in Los Angeles on June 7, on […]