Fashion, at its best, has always been a form of cultural intelligence: a reading of the moment, expressed through what people choose to put on their bodies. A conversation with Samantha Mureau, founder of Planet of the Grapes.
Before it became a company – Colors for Good was an idea that refused to leave. Years earlier, while working in Bangladesh, Alessandro Teichner observed a woman weaving rugs in the doorway of her home.
Nadja Skaljic is a lawyer and systems thinker whose work is guided by a strong sense of conscience. Moving between regeneration and innovation, she brings a precise and incisive intellect to boardrooms and global stages, from Davos and the Dubai Future Forum to Buckingham Palace.
For years, the unspoken rule of professional life was simple: the person who sent emails at midnight and answered Slack before breakfast was, by every measure the organisation recognised, winning.
Most people, when the exhaustion finally becomes impossible to ignore, respond in the same predictable way. They take time off. They set the out-of-office and come back on a Monday morning feeling, for a brief and hopeful window, like a functioning human being again.
As AI grows and more AI tools arrive, anxious questions such as, “Will it take my job?”, “Will what I do be dumbed down?” or “Will I understand what it needs?” dominate workers’ conversations and spread uncertainty and worry about the fast pace of change.
Last year, I had a dream I have never fully been able to forget. In it, I was attending my own funeral. I saw myself walking beside the men carrying my coffin toward the place where I was about to be laid to rest.
March was a brutal month for the markets. A war in the Middle East, surging oil prices and sustained geopolitical uncertainty have pushed the S&P 500 to its worst monthly performance since 2022.
In 2026, pressure from European regulators and investors has made transparency the norm. Corporate disclosures are increasingly granular, funds brand themselves as “impact-driven,” and Net Zero targets now feature in nearly every roadmap.
I heard this sentence often in my life; sometimes whispered, sometimes said with resignation, sometimes offered as a joke that lands a little too close to home.
The scale of global wealth transfer is staggering. In 2025, Cap Gemini reported that there is an $83–84 trillion global wealth transfer where heirs are inheriting the power to shape portfolios.
In February 2025, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) reported an additional purchase of 73.61 million ounces of gold (at an approximate value of 208.6 billion US dollars), which was an increase from the previous month.
by
Elena Didrigkeit
December 1, 2025
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