Design / Fashion
Slow fashion movement
Monocle heads to Fukuoka, the main city on Japan’s Kyushu island and famous for its food culture, for our spring menswear dress-up.
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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.
The Menu, episode 18
We tour Oslo’s local food culture, meet a Chilean seafood restaurant owner and visit a Dublin art exhibition based on food.
Business
Copenhagen
The Danish capital likes to think of itself as the bridge between Scandinavia and continental Europe. It is a city rich in cultural opportunities that welcomes visitors with its great food. Best of all, it's ridiculously…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 26 August
Weekend agenda: 27/28 August
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection includes a sculpture show in the Yorkshire countryside, an art fundraiser in New York’s SoHo and, for the more intrepid, a marathon in West Africa.
Edits / Neighbourhood Business
Ari
Thailand’s artistic set are discovering the delights of this lively, but peaceful, residential neighbourhood, which takes the best of Bangkok life but tones it down a step. It has good transport links, plenty of galleries…
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocle travel guide
This month we’ve found a relaxed place to sip coffee in London, a cosy lodge for late-season Alpine skiing and the best fish supper in Rome.
Edits / Retail
Shop idols
Sometimes it takes just one retailer to unite an entire neighbourhood and restore a sense of old-fashioned community between residents and other shop owners, restaurateurs and civil servants. We’ve found 10 doing just that…
The Menu, episode 34
Europe’s first fully vegan supermarket, how Delhi translates western food culture, and we chat with food critic Jay Rayner.
Midori House, episode 104
Author Daniel Everett discusses language, we report on Dubai’s mission to be the new cultural capital of the Gulf, and sample street food in Helsinki.
Business / Society
Work in progress
From food-loving French taking long lunch breaks to workaholic Japanese businessmen, the world continues to approach office culture in very different ways.
Culture / Music
Montreux Jazz Festival
The Montreux Jazz festival is a celebration of music in beautiful mountain surroundings with eclectic acts, good food and an atmosphere more focused on bonhomie than going bananas. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound…
Culture / Television
Monocolumn
Monday 24 January
Currying favour with the Indian middle class
If you broadcast it they will watch – and cook! At least that’s the mission behind Eat Eat, India’s first 24-hour all-food television network, which debuts in the subcontinent today.
Culture / Music
Fuji Rock Festival
Not all rock festivals involve fans having to live in conditions that the UNHCR would deem unfit for human habitation. Japan's annual Fuji Rock Festival is a pop event with a difference - a mega line-up of international and…
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Thursday 7 June
Countries should do more to promote cuisine
How many Finnish restaurants do you know?
Culture / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Tuesday 30 April
Making a meal of it
The crowning of El Celler de Can Roca as the world's best restaurant is a deserving win but let's not confuse tasty cuisine with high culture.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Thursday 28 July
All change as Peru welcomes in a left-leaning government
Glued to their televisions, Peruvians watched the inauguration of Ollanta Humala, the country’s new president.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 11 December
A Hungarian Hannukah
As Jews around the world prepare to celebrate the festival of Hannukah tonight, the Hungarian capital is hosting its biggest-ever Hannukah festival.