Fashion
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Serious business
A slavish addiction to your smartphone can bring you down. App developers and ‘happiness consultants’ think they can help. But are they really enough to keep you smiling?
Moving the pieces
At Expo Real, a three-day real-estate extravaganza in Germany, investors, developers and urbanists thrash out the deals that will shape our cities in the years to come. Monocle peeks at the future of property.
Worthy investment
Making a profit and a positive contribution to society needn’t be mutually exclusive. We meet five investors funding businesses that make a difference, from envelope-pushing art to greening-up city life.
Christmas shopping in Copenhagen
We go on a jaunt around the Danish capital to find the best – and sharpest – retail outposts for all your stocking-filler needs.
On design
To celebrate the collaboration between Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer and Japanese designer Hiroshi Fujiwara, we contemplate the pursuit of perfection to achieve timeless appeal.
Insider guide
Gastown is the place to head for shopping if you’re in town. Resident fashion retailer Saager Dilawri shows us round.
Insider guide
Designer Junji Tanigawa takes us on a tour of the best shopping spots in the Japanese capital.
Fashion
Coats worth investing in, plus Nomos Glashütte watches and Valextra’s customised-bag initiative.
Dream catcher
The creative mastermind behind some of the industry’s most iconic campaigns and covers talks about going digital, selling sex and defining luxury.
Crowd pleasers
Italians, even in the smallest of towns, make big demands on their luxury fashion emporiums. A special network gives them a helping hand.
