Fiona Wilson
Cut from different cloth
Uniqlo’s new home represents the company’s desire to become a more hi-tech operation – and rewire its staff at the same time.
Seoul patch
South Korea’s independent retailers are gently shaking up a market that matches peerless homegrown brands and well-pressed European perfection.
Leading lights
Kitting out your office? Sprucing up your home? The furniture and firms you need are perfectly arranged right here.
Against the grain
Renho Murata is the leader of Japan’s opposition. She talks economics, migration and why she won’t be ‘getting the saké’.
The opener
We touch down in Sri Lanka, keep an ear out in Switzerland and bring good news from San Francisco in our monthly round-up of global viewpoints.
Emerging patterns
Shops and stylists, tailors and tracht: welcome to Monocle’s worldwide wardrobe of fashion-forward folk to keep an eye on.
Can Japan save fashion?
Anxious luxury groups have seen big sales drops in China and Russia but one country just keeps growing.
Ready to rumble
Thanks to a clutch of shops, restaurants and bars beneath its arches, Tokyo's Nakameguro Station is a buzzing destination in itself, and more than just a gateway to the city.
Out of the woods
Ishinomaki Laboratory rose from the rubble of Japan's 2011 earthquake. The furniture workshop helped rebuild a community, stool by stool, and grew into a thriving business with a global reputation for simple, sturdy design.
