The Eighties revival in fashion going full swing, and nowhere is it more evident than the November 24 Christie’s auction of memorabilia from the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Patti Smith and other punk pioneers. “Ten years ago, punk memorabilia probably wouldn’t be something we’d be auctioning here,” says Christie’s Simeon Lipman.  ”But now, people of a certain age [...]

Looking for a yacht fit for a king? The Ocean Breeze was actually built for a tyrant: Saddam Hussein. The late dictator commissioned Danish company Helsingor Vaerft in 1981 to create a craft that would be the very definition of excess: ornate fountains, fittings in gold (such as bathrooms with gold taps), silver and marble [...]