Fiona Wilson
Barking up the right tree: Inside Japan’s billion-Yen luxury pet lifestyle boom
Meet the companies catering to Japan's ever-growing love for its four-legged friends, with everything from dog buggies to grooming services and canine disaster rations.
AI imitations could never replace the art of Studio Ghibli
Spare a thought for Hayao Miyazaki, the 84-year-old Japanese anime director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, which has produced such hits as My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. After decades spent honing his craft and meticulously making…
Comic relief: The artisans keeping the art of manga-making alive
Digital printing has stripped the craft from Japanese manga. Meet the typesetters staging a print revolution.
The fashion pieces and new openings you need to know about this spring
In keeping with the new beginnings of spring, we travel across the world to meet the labels opening shops and launching debut collections.
Japanese label Kaptain Sunshine settles down in Tokyo
The brand’s long-awaited flagship combines good architecture with attractive product design.
Style Directory: Our top 25 seasonal styles
To help you in the endeavour of a wardrobe refresh, we have scoured fashion runways and designers’ studios around the world to help you rethink your staples and statement pieces.
Solid foundations: Three firms redefining the future of development
Boom towns and bright spots across the world are bucking the trends that others are seeing in the global economy. We speak to some key industry players whose firms are reshaping the future.
The new Ginza Sony Park is as radical as its 1966 predecessor
By welcoming visitors to its many exhibitions and events, the new complex is free of the usual trappings of behind-closed-doors big business.
Stitching the future: Inside Tokyo’s Bunka Fashion College
Monocle takes a front-row seat with some of the school’s young stars of style to find out how craft and knowhow are nurtured, and see who among them might be the next Yohji Yamamoto.
The Pentax 17 film camera is bringing a digital generation back to analogue
Smartphones have changed the way we take pictures. But Pentax thinks that there is still a place for the tactile pleasures of manual photography. The solution? A phone-inspired film camera.
