Robb Report

With the world slowly but surely edging toward normal over the past year, Robb Report editors were back to crisscrossing the globe as part of our annual quest to identify the sine qua non of the luxury industry. Whether fueled by an electric battery

After decades of fits and starts, electric vehicles are now squarely in the automotive firmament, with even the combustion-loving likes of Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Lamborghini embracing a battery-powered future. So what’s next? Enter the climate-neut

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times is debatable; what’s certain is things are confusing on many levels right now. The past year was set to the tempo of the pandemic’s fits and starts: celebratory re-emergences followed by cautious r

Usually, the rarefied few who hold sway over their professions are either hailed as rising stars or honored for their lifetime of achievement. Mate Rimac, the 34-year-old automotive disrupter, is already worthy of both. In 2009, roughly five years af

Last year, Swiss watch exports reached an all-time high of over $22 billion, according to a report by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry. Exports to the US were up 55 percent, and January 2022 witnessed a year-on-year increase of 37.5 percent

Sustainability and the luxury world are not always easy bedfellows. And the disconnect between the two is particularly obvious within the marine realm, where many owners preach eco-everything until it comes to the rare woods and exotic stones that di

RIP, VIP bucket lists. Since luxury travel began to resurge as the pandemic subsided, it’s been carpe passport, leaving the industry to balance a burst dam’s worth of pent-up demand with a host of ongoing obstacles. One upshot has been travelers’ wil

A perennial hospitality hot spot, Italy has seen an exceptional year of new arrivals, all aiming to add extra sweetness to a trip offering a taste of la dolce vita. Each of these five hotels is exceptional in its own right, but here’s a tip sheet to

We’re raising a glass to the shift to diversify wine culture that has begun in earnest over this past year. In the UK, the Gérard Basset Foundation is generating funds through its Golden Vines auctions to support BIPOC candidates interested in an eno

The practice of reworking old themes is a familiar concept at the world’s best jewelry houses, but this year designers revised the legacies and dynasties of kingdoms past for today’s increasingly relaxed but no less lavish aesthetic. Jewelers took he

Like the prestige TV dramas of yore, restaurants that wanted to be taken seriously have for decades made themselves deathly serious. Prizes were bestowed upon the establishments that embraced precision in culinary technique and service. But fun? Laug

If year one of the pandemic was a scramble for the art world, with galleries, fairs and auction houses jumping online to stay afloat, year two was an experiment. Sensing the field was at a pivotal moment, many players offered up a dizzying number of

It would be accurate to say that Peter Bignell runs a “green” distillery, but somehow that doesn’t quite capture it. For more than a decade, Bignell’s company—Belgrove Distillery in Tasmania, Australia—has produced whiskey from rye he grows himself.

Things have certainly gotten a lot more interesting at Cascade Hollow Distilling Co. since Nicole Austin was hired as GM and distiller in 2018. The distillery, located in sleepy Tullahoma, Tenn., is the home of George Dickel, a Diageoowned brand that

In prosperous eras of the past, sprawling estates embellished with long, winding driveways, guest cottages and amenities were built and handed down through the generations. Some, like a 1920s “castle” in San Diego or Linden Hill, a property nearly th

Few have done as much to shape the cloud-scraping skyline of New York City over the past two decades—and bring Gotham back from the depths of the pandemic—than powerhouse visionary Stephen Kliegerman. Since 2000, when he joined the senior executive t

One of the glaring shortcomings of private aviation is the lack of an industry-wide app that offers guaranteed pricing and real-time information. A half dozen of the larger firms have invested tens of millions in developing apps for their own fleets.

Formula 1 racing, trading natural gas and the emerging eVTOL segment don’t seem like logical bedfellows. But entrepreneur Stephen Fitzpatrick made the link between all three during a 2015 F1 event in Brazil. Then owner of the Manor Racing Formula 1 t

Our culture puts a great deal of focus on wealth-building, whether in tech, pro sports or celebritydom. But billionaire MacKenzie Scott can’t seem to give away her money fast enough. Her extraordinary largesse and whiplash-inducing pace this past yea

Best of the Best has been around for 34 years. It’s the annual issue for which we pause our relentless pursuit of the latest and greatest to take stock of the luxury industry over the past 12 months and anoint those brands, innovators and artisans wh

When architect Luis Fernandez was working on his first environment for the metaverse, a soaring, interactive gallery conceived to display NFT artworks, he kept running into a problem: None of the established platforms or available technology could ma

The digital basketball sneaker is an avatar for our age, in no small part because it is, literally, an avatar. There is no consumer good so perfectly Veblenian as name-brand virtual athletic apparel: Digitally rendered ankles don’t need digitally ren

The cigar industry, like so many other businesses, has been completely transformed over the past two years—it’s also facing nearly unprecedented demand. At the beginning of 2020, tobacco stores and cigar lounges were forced to shutter nationwide, yet

The husband-and-wife team of Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa have photographed acclaimed individuals for numerous publications, including Viola Davis for Variety, James Hinchcliffe for ESPN and Naomi Osaka for Time. For this issue’s style section (p.