Design / Fashion
Counter culture
A quick bite on your own in one of Tokyo’s cafés and restaurants is a pure, indulgent pleasure, especially when you’re adding to the ambience with a sharp-looking outfit.
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Business / Management
Gildo Zegna
Editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé welcomes Gildo Zegna, CEO of supreme Italian menswear brand Ermenegildo Zegna, to the Monocle HQ in London to discuss the brand's centenary in 2010 and its longer-term future.
Design / Fashion
The city, slicker
For business meetings in the middle of the Pacific, Monocle suggests a few looks from the US East Coast via Marunouchi.
Design / Fashion
Show must go on
Taking place in the shadow of a retail slowdown, this year’s Pitti Immagine Uomo nevertheless managed to have an air of solidarity and optimism – the bright and playful clothing on show bucking the usual greys and neutrals…
Affairs / Luxury
Monocolumn
Tuesday 20 November
African style – and substance?
“The promise of Africa, the power of the Mediterranean.” That was the title of this year’s International Herald Tribune Luxury conference in Rome. If there was ever a time for the luxury industry to try to negotiate its…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 22 August
In US politics, clothes make the man
An inevitable stage of election coverage has begun. After arguments concerning his pro-life stance on abortion, Ayn Rand-style capitalist economics and absence of foreign policy experience, the discussion surrounding Paul…
Edits / Food & Drink
Taste maker
Anna Zegna’s grandfather founded the fashion company that bears her name in Trivero, Piedmont in 1910. Still run by the family, the firm recently opened a cultural centre at the Zegna house. Anna invites us in for her…
Affairs / Politics
Asia Briefing
Badly equipped and under-trained, India's police force needs more than just investment. We also report on the Burmese elections, Vietnam's unlikely new friend, and a former Chinese politician speaking out against the gov…
Business / Emerging Markets
Spot the shopper
China’s booming economy has triggered a luxury-mall boom. Packed with the best brands, they lack just one thing: shoppers with money. While some companies have found success, many more could soon be packing up and heading…
Design / Fashion
Relaxed fit
Slowear successfully disregards ‘fashion’ in favour of quality, provenance and longevity, housing four of our favourite Italian clothing companies under one umbrella brand.
Design / Retail
Future classics
Menswear sales are still recovering from a dip in 2005, but this season’s Pitti Uomo was attended by 21,000 buyers with significant growth in eastern European and Indian markets. And its fashions were similarly forward…
Business / Small Business
Sheer genius
Fine fleeces /Having faltered during the 1990s, the Australian Merino wool industry is seeing a resurgence on the back of a growing luxury market in China and it’s proving a welcome boost to Brand Australia along the way…
Edits / Retail
Inventory No.19
As 2008 draws to a close and many of our long-term wishes have already come true, there is still the diplomatic issue of gift giving to consider. What do you give family, friends and colleagues who expect high standards…
Edits / Travel
50 things to improve your life
Our 2009 global round-up of the people, pursuits, places and pets to improve the way you live, work, rest, commute and communicate.