Edits / Society
The perfect fit
Big supermarkets are banned, independent businesses abound and there’s a human scale on the shop floor. All of this makes Paris Europe’s retail capital.
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Business / Sport
Muscle display
The fitness industry appears to be outrunning the economic downturn. At the Fibo trade show in Essen in April, optimism was high – and so was the number of million-euro equipment deals.
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.
Business / Sport
ISPO - Mountain Fit
As fashion brands plunder the world of sports for ideas Monocle's film crew headed to ISPO - the leading trade fair devoted to sports - to discover new ideas and hi-tech advancements.
Edits / Health
Expo 58: Don't stop moving
In Japan, if you’re not doing ‘rajio taiso’ you’re either dead or you’ve slept in. Millions of Japanese rise early every morning to get together and do radio exercises – the rest do them at work.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Thursday 14 July
Murdoch – the people’s tyrant
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality
Business / Retail
Monocolumn
Thursday 3 September
How the high street was conquered
It’s not only the Japanese (see Thursday’s Monocolumn on Uniqlo) that have a retail model that’s fit for these straightened times.
The Urbanist, episode 47
Fitness: how best to use city rivers, what health regime has Delhi in stitches, and the US mayor who put his city on a diet.
Edits / Travel
Micro to macro
Continental Micronesia, with an HQ on the idyllic island of Guam, has expanded its routes and is fit for the future.
Edits / Sport
The Perfect Home Gym
*Monocle* assembles the perfect fitness regime and fills a kitbag with exercise essentials without s much as breaking into a sweat.
Affairs / Society
Africa/Middle East briefing
A fitness centre in Iraq? Entrepreneurial folly or viable business adventure? Ibrahim Abdullatif has no doubts: “Iraqi Kurdistan is the place to invest,” says the 31-year-old businessman who has opened the Fitness Health…
Culture / Sport
Monocolumn
Sunday 12 August
Olympic group hug
What the hell do we do now? This morning London’s airports are filling up with athletes heading home from the Olympics. It’s a nylon ocean of the tracksuited and fit.
Affairs / Media
Briefing Oceania
Samoa mounts operation healthcare and the truth about those fit Aussies - they are actually too busy on twitter to play sport.
Edits / Health
Inventory No. 58
Stay fighting fit with this month's pick of new-generation exercise gear. For post-workout we have toiletries and refreshing craft beer.
Business / Aviation
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 September
JAL hits turbulent times
It’s perhaps fitting that I’m filing this first Monocolumn from seat 1A on a JAL777 from Haneda to Osaka’s Itami airport just as the airline has announced it will be letting around 7,000 staff go over the next three years…
Design / Sport
Run in top gear
Getting into shape is hard work, so we need all the help we can get. Here, Monocle selects the most comfortable trainers, the most useful gadgets and the most nutritious supplements to help you get fit.
Design / Architecture
Make it better
Akershus University Hospital was created by CF Møller on the principle that good design makes you feel better. Well lit and easy to navigate, it is fitted with bespoke, locally crafted furniture, and state-of-the-art hea…
Edits / Fashion
Inventory No. 57
This month you can stock your kitchen with new kit before settling down with a good book and a glass of something – beer, wine or milk and honey, as you see fit.
Design / Retail
Pitti party
Buyers braved the cold to make it to this season’s Pitti Uomo menswear show, with numbers up on last year. A sense of calm about the future was reflected in the relaxed fit of items on show.