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Josh McKenna

Entertainment

The opener

Disputes over Mozart’s chocolate balls, a Viennese editor who never falters and why the Austrian lifestyle is not always as it seems.

  • Issue #131
  • 6 min read
Mountain landscape with winding road through green Alpine valley and traditional buildings
Urbanism

The opener

Why it’s time to kick off your shoes in the office, the drive to ban drive-thrus and some woolly wanderers flocking to Paris.

  • Issue #126
  • 7 min read
The opener
Fashion

Downward trend

Killer heels, once status symbols, are now conspicuously absent from fashion-show front rows (and runways). How did they become out of step with the modern world?

  • Issue #117
  • 7 min read
Illustration of three women's legs wearing different types of shoes against a turquoise background.
Fashion

Battle of the bulge

No menswear item is more divisive than a pair of speedos. And opinions on ‘banana hammocks’ are informed by national psyche. We reveal all.

  • Issue #115
  • 10 min read
Battle of the bulge

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