Art Basel, private beaches and bags of bling: Miami’s exclusive Bal Harbour is swiftly becoming the next style capital

But the area’s true gem lies across the road: Bal Harbour Shops. This year celebrating its 60th anniversary, this open-air-mall-turned-shopaholic’s-sanctum has been the ultimate port-of-call for rail-rummaging aesthetes for over half a century. It is here that its original developer Stanley Whitman convinced fashion tycoon Stanley Marcus to open up the first ever Neiman Marcus outside of Texas. Saks swiftly followed suit, and soon Cartier and Bulgari would cut the ribbon of their…