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HOW THE BEST ARE SUCCEEDING
Fresh Egg, Anyone?
It’s a national disgrace. As best anyone can tell, there isn’t a single road-registered Koenigsegg left in New Zealand. Not one Egg. Not a Jesko. Not even an ageing CCX gathering dust in some Waikato […]
Adidas x FIFA
Everyone’s going Fifa Crazy, may as well go all in on your favourite team.
Tony Tony Tony
Dominic Sessa was great in The Holdovers, so seeing him play a young and stroppy Anthony Bourdain is a joy. He was born for roles like this. The film follows a 19-year-old Bourdain as his […]
Time Pieces
It’s always Zulu Time With The Pelagos
One does not normally associate the luxury TUDOR watches with the armed forces, but Tudor has been the official supplier to the French Navy” since 1961. They earned this title after a protracted testing of […]
Watches and Wonders 2024: A. Lange & Sohne
DATOGRAPH UP/DOWN To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their first chronographic movements A. Lange & Söhne is adding two very special editions of the DATOGRAPH to their portfolio. The first of which is this stunning […]
Built for Generations
Patek Philippe’s Passion for Workmanship exhibition returned to the capital for the first time in more than a decade recently, with Partridge Jewellers hosting and an evening event at Public Trust Hall alongside a menu […]
M2 AI Summit
What We Did To Grow Productivity With AI
Bindi Norwell, Group Chief Executive of ProCare, shared the real-world experience of bringing AI into one of New Zealand’s largest primary healthcare networks. Rather than starting with technology, her team began with people. “We created […]
AI & Cybersecurity – What You Need to Know
Simon Jordon, cybersecurity consultant at Resilient IT, gave the audience a mild panic attack with his talk on how AI is accelerating both the sophistication and scale of cyber threats. He described a shift in […]
Unlocking New Zealand’s Future: Insights from New Zealand AI Adoption
Mission Ready boss Diana Sharma followed Nick Petrie with a simple, slightly inconvenient argument: AI adoption is a people problem, not a tech one. Diana Sharma started with a recent story. A few weeks earlier, […]
Cars
An Electrifying Vision Becomes Reality
For some people, their word is law – so, with them, a promise made is a promise kept. One such person is Charles Rolls; better known as the man whose name is half of the […]
A Glorious Drive – The 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed
Let’s get the obvious out of the way, this is an extremely pleasant place to be. The car welcomes you like a prince into unlimited luxury. Understatement is the name of the game here, it’s […]
The Big Goodbye
Lamborghini has revealed two special edition vehicles, the Invencible Coupe and Auténtica Roadster car as a farewell to Lamborghini’s naturally aspirated V12 engine and the Aventador platform. They are the final examples of a breed […]
Fashion
Steal Bob Dylan’s Look
Timothée Chalamet isn’t the only one getting to swan around looking like Bob Dylan in Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown. Now we’re all able to get a slice of the action thanks to a collaboration […]
Don West, The Oscars and The Best in Fashion This Autumn
Don West Got Dapper If you’re wondering why Australian singer Don West and his band are looking even more dapper than usual it’s because of a light kiwi touch of style. Karen Walker and her […]
Fernando Alonso Accelerates As The New BOSS Ambassador
An icon on the track, Fernando Alonso is about to become an icon on the red carpet as well as he’s officially partnered up with BOSS, who’s going to be suiting him up at all […]
Drink
How To Food Match Your Whisky
The other day I was asked ‘what food should I have with whisky?’ I replied that there are only three things to have with a whisky – a cigar; a little water; and yet more […]
The Coleraine ’21 from Te Mata Estate: The One
Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand is known for producing some of the world’s finest red wines, but since 1982, Te Mata’s Coleraine range has carved out it’s own benchmark and year on year it keeps getting […]
Remy Martin Louis XIII: A Cognac Fit for Royalty
Remy Martin Louis XIII is one of the world’s most famous and sought-after cognacs due to its rich history and exceptional flavour profile. And the Remy Martin Louis XIII 3L Jeroboam takes that and makes […]
Success
From Side Project to Global Platforms
photography by DaniloPhoto Ben Liebert never set out to build one of the most sophisticated cloud integration and data access platforms on the market. But then again, the SyncHub founder never quite followed the script […]
Rings of Power’s Ismael Cruz Córdova “I lost a very dear person to me during the shoot”
Being an actor, an artist, means to surrender oneself to another world. For Puerto Rican actor Ismael Cruz Córdova, that world is the ancient forests, impossible beauty and imagination of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Having grown up […]
From Grassroots to Global: The Tauranga Tech Entrepreneur Giving NZ Inc a Seat at the AI Table
Tim Boyne didn’t grow up dreaming of IPOs and founder exits. He wasn’t raised in a house where startup valuations were casual conversation. Instead, he grew up in Tauranga, raised by a solo mother who, […]
Man Made
The X Factor
I’ve noticed recently a yearning to unplug and return to more atomised technology. My nephew rocks a dumbphone and a digital camera he found in an op shop for a few dollars, swinging the full […]
Ghost Yachts Latest Marvel
With Covid lockdown’s being a constant reminder for us to stay inside, keep our distance and maintain our mental health by seeing the silver-linings, any warm-blooded person would much rather spend their days following all […]
Level Up Your Superyacht Game
If you want your Superyacht to come packing some serious deck action, let us recommend 37.6 metre (123.3ft) The Azimut Grande 38 Trideck. Crafted by the renowned yacht designer Alberto Mancini, the yacht’s exterior design creates […]
Innovation
Editor’s Letter – Mar/Apr 2021
You will notice as you go through this issue that we have gone heavy on the America’s Cup, and while the actual on-the-water racing might be the thing that gets all of the coverage and […]
Our Review of 2021: Just The Important Bits
As we arrive at the end of the year, we can look back, dust off our hands and tell ourselves, “Wow I sure did get nothing done while the rest of the world went down […]
Clive Cussler – The Underwater Adventurer
Best-selling author of up to 70 books (and counting), Clive Cussler is a writer with an insanely vivid imagination. Swashbuckling adventures, megalomaniac villains, the electricity of espionage, the excitement of discovering sunken ships…intrigue, action, a […]
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