Fashion
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Talking shop
From Tokyo's Isetan to Bogotá's design studios, the world's most forward-thinking retailers are proving that bricks-and-mortar shopping remains indispensable — for neighbourhoods, culture and commerce alike.
Texans in town
Dallas’s department-store stalwart Neiman Marcus and leading fashion boutique Forty Five Ten have rolled into the Big Apple with huge new spaces. It’s a bold move when bricks-and-mortar openings are a risk.
Well heeled
For beautifully made, perfectly fitting shoes, this family-run atelier is the business.
Hit refresh
As the season changes, it’s time for a wardrobe update with clean, cool neutrals, and crisp colours.
Beauty contest
Chinese consumers can’t get enough of cosmetics, especially when it comes to high-end foreign brands. Hong Kong is benefitting from this insatiable demand and exploiting a loophole in China’s regulations.
Back to bright
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac — the designer who once clothed Madonna in teddy bears — is now tasked with returning Benetton to its boldly colourful, agenda-setting glory days.
Refusing to buckle
Luxury watch brands gather in Geneva and prove that, despite digitisation, this is a strapping industry that’s dialling into the demands of a new generation.
The spring manifesto
Considered, ethical and quietly covetable: from a Berlin unisex label keeping production local to a Milan bag brand built on essential minimalism, these are the spring names worth knowing.
Naoki Takizawa
The fashion designer who oversees Uniqlo’s collaborations and makes outfits for Japan’s Empress Michiko, reveals how food – and a herbal remedy – has informed his work.
