Aisha Speirs
Free Spirits
Before digital music, labels just produced records. Now, a new approach is needed. Enter Ghostly International, with its unique brand of art, music and retail, showing how to thrive.
Fashion
London's Oliver Spencer opens in Toronto, plus we have coats to protect you from spring showers and womenswear with a soft focus.
The city limits
New York City’s enviable culture and wealth have failed to spread to its northern hinterlands. For ailing cities like Buffalo, it’s do or die time.
Thriving threads
The various strands of the fashion industry spent the past year pulling themselves together after a tough 2009. Monocle speaks to the brands that are now planning to spread their wings in 2011.
Fashion
An eyewear boutique in New York with new and vintage frames, nautical jumpers for women and a new menswear store in Stockholm.
Stored up
Monocle reports on Mitsukoshi department store’s updated look and innovative concepts.
Business
The entrepreneurs with an idea for a digital democracy, Johannesburg's downtown gets a facelift, and online purchases can now be on London doorsteps within 90 minutes.
Fashion
The new preppy, a cycling jacket you'd be proud to be seen in, a menswear store in Hong Kong that's not in a mall, and Inventory magazine's shop.
Home at the office
Bosses are realising the benefits of a more humane workplace. This gives staff pride and belonging, and expresses a company’s ethos to clients. Welcome to the anti-office.
