The People

The Monegasque™ continues its approach of featuring public figures in their own words. In its most recent edition, The Monegasque™ features a firsthand editorial by Swiss driver Sébastien Buemi - Formula E champion, four-time Le Mans winner, and one of motorsport’s most accomplished active competitors. The piece, titled Fast Track to Net Zerø, is less a racing memoir than a statement of purpose: electric motorsport as a vehicle for climate action.

Buemi traces his path from traditional combustion-powered racing into the all-electric Formula E championship, which he joined in its inaugural season. He reflects on the technological progression of electric vehicles - from early limitations that required drivers to switch cars mid-race, to today’s third-generation (GEN3 EVO) cars that now outperform Formula 1 cars in acceleration.

Performance alone is not the focus of Buemi’s editorial. He presents his team, Envision Racing, as part of a broader environmental mission. The team, which holds more podiums and points than any other in the series, integrates sustainability at its core. Regenerative braking technology allows cars to produce up to half the energy required during the race itself. Innovations such as 30-second ultra-fast charging are not just sport milestones—they are signals of what is possible in consumer electric vehicle infrastructure.

Buemi details how Envision Racing connects sport with climate advocacy. Through its Race Against Climate Change campaign, the team organizes educational and policy-focused events at Formula E race locations, encouraging fans to adopt greener habits. For each individual climate pledge taken through the team’s website - ranging from reduced meat consumption to increased use of public transport - a mangrove tree is planted in Madagascar. To date, more than 250,000 trees have been planted.

The article also emphasizes the commercial and cultural momentum of Formula E. With over 400 million viewers globally, the championship’s visibility continues to grow. Buemi argues that as electric racing becomes mainstream entertainment, it accelerates the global transition to electric mobility.

His reflections on Monaco - host of some of Formula E’s most dynamic races - close The Monegasque™ magazine’s article with a nod to both the principality’s racing heritage and its potential as a showcase for sustainable innovation.

More from The Monegasque™ contributors can be found at monegasque.com

Vladyslava Garkusha

Vladyslava Garkusha is an Actress, TV Host, Model, and Editor-at-Large of Dubai Voice. The People, Dubai, World and Global Perspective.

The Monegasque™ occupies a distinct place in international publishing - magazine where influence speaks in the first person. Contributors include global figures across sport, fashion, arts, heads of state and dynasts, each writing in their own voice.

In her article The Last Picture Show, Annette Anderson - president of the MonacoUSA Association and a key figure in Monaco’s cultural landscape - recounts the largely forgotten story of Rearranged, a short feature film produced and starred in by Princess Grace of Monaco shortly before her death in 1982. While the public widely considers High Society(1956) her final cinematic appearance, Rearranged stands as a little-known epilogue to her screen career.

Anderson, who moved to Monaco in 1989 and never met the Princess personally, was eventually granted rare access to view Rearranged in its entirety. The 33-minute comedy, privately screened just once at the Monaco Garden Club Gala in 1982, was created to promote the event’s 12th edition. Princess Grace, who founded the Garden Club in 1968, envisioned the project as a Hollywood-style production and enlisted Austrian director Robert Dornhelm, along with romance novelist Jacqueline Monsigny and her husband, American actor Edward Meeks.

The storyline, written by Monsigny, follows a case of mistaken identity: an astrophysicist arriving in Monaco is confused for a travel journalist and is unwittingly entered into a floral design competition by the Princess, who portrays herself in the film. Prince Rainier III appears briefly in a cameo as a fellow competitor. The production involved Garden Club members, staff, and even Princess Grace’s own chauffeur and head of security. Filming took place over ten days at locations across Monaco, including the now-demolished Winter Sporting building.

Though well received during its single public screening, the film was never released. ABC had expressed interest in airing it on television but required additional footage to meet broadcast length. Monsigny completed a revised script in the summer of 1982, and production was scheduled to resume that September. It never did. On September 13, 1982, Princess Grace suffered a stroke while driving and died the following day. The film’s final 15 minutes were never shot.

The only existing version of Rearranged is held by Monaco’s Audio-Visual Archives. Anderson describes how she first encountered it through a brief Japanese YouTube clip during research for a separate article. Through personal connections, she was eventually permitted to watch the full film privately under the supervision of the Archives. Despite limited sound quality, she recalls being moved to tears by the performance - a portrayal that conveyed the Princess’s warmth, grace, and composure in what would become her final onscreen appearance.

Anderson’s account in The Monegasque™ reconstructs a little-known episode in Monaco’s cultural history. It is not a tribute cloaked in nostalgia, but a factual retelling of an unfinished project that reveals the personal dimensions of a public figure whose legacy is still evolving.

More from The Monegasque™ can be found at monegasque.com

Vladyslava Garkusha

Vladyslava Garkusha is an Actress, TV Host, Model, and Editor-at-Large of Dubai Voice. The People, Dubai, World and Global Perspective.

The Monegasque™ magazine features original articles from heads of state, heirs, and global leaders across diverse fields.

In the article “My Champion’s Creed,” Evander Holyfield outlines the core principles that shaped his boxing career and life. From his earliest days in the ring, Holyfield credits three fundamental lessons taught by his mother: the importance of listening, following directions, and perseverance. These tenets provided the foundation for his resilience, particularly when confronting early setbacks in boxing. He recalls his mother’s counsel: «changing paths is a choice to be made in the light of success, not under the cloud of defeat». 

Holyfield applies this philosophy beyond boxing, emphasizing the necessity of commitment to one’s pursuits and distinguishing transient interests from enduring ones. He highlights the strategic dimension of boxing, shaped by a coach who stressed the art of “striking without being struck,” underscoring the balance between offense and defense.

His personal code developed into a commitment to honesty and self-awareness, which became essential to his discipline and training. Holyfield maintains a rigorous standard: to accept defeat only when he has performed at his best. Central to his creed is also faith, saying “prayers avert adversities”. 

Holyfield’s article reflects a life shaped by enduring values of resilience, integrity, and faith.

More from The Monegasque™ contributors can be found at monegasque.com

Vladyslava Garkusha

Vladyslava Garkusha is an Actress, TV Host, Model, and Editor-at-Large of Dubai Voice. The People, Dubai, World and Global Perspective.

In a publication where world leaders, royals, and cultural icons speak in their own words, The Monegasque™ has carved a unique place in international media. Its editorial philosophy rejects third-person narratives in favor of first-hand accounts, offering readers direct access to figures who have shaped history and continue to influence global affairs. In its latest issue, Joe Foster - co-founder of Reebok - joins this chorus of singular voices.

Foster’s article, Thinking Outside the Shoebox, is the first in a two-part series that traces the creation of one of the most recognizable brands in athletic wear. His story, spanning three generations, offers a rare look into the making of Reebok, from a small workshop in Bolton, England, to its rise as the world’s top sports brand by the late 1980s.

The Foster family's roots in sports footwear stretch back to 1895, when Joe’s grandfather, J.W. Foster, developed some of the earliest spiked running shoes. These innovations helped British athletes claim Olympic gold in 1924, feats later dramatized in Chariots of Fire. Yet, as Foster recounts, success in one generation did not guarantee continuity. By the 1950s, J.W. Foster & Sons was faltering under fractured leadership.

Joe and his brother Jeff left the family business in 1958 to start anew. With little capital but a clear sense of purpose, they founded what would eventually become Reebok. The original name, Mercury Sports Footwear, had to be abandoned due to a trademark conflict. The brothers submitted a list of alternatives to their agent; “Reebok,” a name Joe pulled from an American dictionary, was their preferred choice. They secured the name - and a brand was born.

Over the next decade, the brothers refined their product line and sought a foothold in the U.S. market. Foster’s account details six failed attempts to secure an American distributor. Persistence paid off. In 1979, a distributor in Boston agreed to take on Reebok. Within two years, the company had caught the attention of the U.S. running market.

Then came the turning point: aerobics. Reebok’s “Freestyle” model, designed specifically for women, transcended fitness to become a fashion staple. Hollywood figures adopted the shoes, accelerating their visibility. Demand exploded. Between 1983 and 1987, Reebok’s revenue climbed from $9 million to $900 million, overtaking Adidas and Nike to become the global leader in athletic footwear.

Joe Foster now lives in Tenerife. He is the author of Shoemaker and serves as Reebok’s ambassador as well as Chairman of LetsLocalise. His story, told in The Monegasque™, reflects the strategic decisions and persistence behind Reebok’s global rise.

More from The Monegasque™ contributors can be found at monegasque.com

Vladyslava Garkusha

Vladyslava Garkusha is an Actress, TV Host, Model, and Editor-at-Large of Dubai Voice. The People, Dubai, World and Global Perspective.

Amid a media landscape, The Monegasque™ magazine, a Monaco-based publication, distinguishes itself by offering public figures a platform to speak in their own voice. The magazine forgoes the usual filter of journalists, opting instead to publish first-person essays from individuals who are typically more seen than heard. The result is a publication where cultural figures, athletes, and descendants of dynasties do something increasingly rare: they write.

Among the contributors is Brazilian Formula One driver Bruno Senna, nephew of the late Ayrton Senna, who shares his story in the article 'The Magic of Senna: Continuing My Uncle’s Legacy in Monaco.'

Bruno Senna was born in São Paulo in 1983. His earliest memories, he writes, are of karting, engines, and helmeted heroes - chief among them, his uncle Ayrton, a three-time Formula One World Champion and six-time winner at Monaco. After Ayrton’s fatal crash at Imola in 1994 and the later death of Bruno’s father, any early aspirations toward racing were put on pause.

It wasn’t until the encouragement of his mother, Viviane Senna, and family friend Gerhard Berger, that the younger Senna returned to motorsport. He entered Formula One in 2010 with Hispania Racing and later raced for Renault and Williams. His best result came at the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix, where he finished eighth.

In 2010, Senna moved to Monaco. The Principality, long a hub for Formula One drivers, offered proximity to racing circuits, the same streets where his uncle had built much of his reputation.

That same year, Senna won the GP2 Feature Race in Monaco, putting the family name atop a Monte Carlo leaderboard for the first time since 1993.

Senna’s essay in The Monegasque™ is personal. He reflects on life in Monaco beyond the paddock: meeting his wife, raising a daughter, and working with the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation. There are no grand statements - just a steady accounting of life lived forward, with the past never far behind.

The Monegasque™ itself has published original contributions from Jermaine Jackson, Evander Holyfield, H.R.H. Prince Michel of Yugoslavia, and Archduke Carl-Christian of Austria. Other contributors include Joe Foster, co-founder of Reebok; Alberto Repossi, the jeweler; Chico Bouchikhi, co-founder of the Gipsy Kings; artist Laura Chaplin, the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin; and Formula One’s rising driver Oscar Piastri.

The magazine’s editorial philosophy is simple: let the people who’ve lived the story tell it. For Bruno Senna, that means stepping out of the shadow of a surname long immortalized in racing history - not by distancing from it, but by continuing it with precision, patience, and his own words.

More from The Monegasque™ contributors can be found at monegasque.com

Vladyslava Garkusha

Vladyslava Garkusha is an Actress, TV Host, Model, and Editor-at-Large of Dubai Voice. The People, Dubai, World and Global Perspective.

“The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth,” a reflection widely attributed to Chief Seattle, continues to echo as an urgent reminder in the face of accelerating climate change. As the global community confronts this defining challenge of the 21st century, artists and performers worldwide are harnessing their creativity and public platforms to raise awareness, inspire action, and foster environmental stewardship.