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Late summer solutions
Summer may be getting on but there are still plenty of balmy evenings and hazy days to enjoy before the autumn closes in. Here are five ideas to help you get the most out…
Shop idols
Sometimes it takes just one retailer to unite an entire neighbourhood and restore an old-fashioned sense of community. Here are five doing just that. Things to improve your life
Accessories
From luggage to watches to eyewear to mobile phones, this is Monocle’s very brief shopping list for some accessories to get you through the coming winter months.
The Perfect Desk
Whether idly doodling or hastily transcribing interviews in good old shorthand, Monocle recommends the best utensils for your daily tasks. From pens to paper, from U+ in Canada to Düller in Japan, our round…
Lamb’s Conduit Street
In the first of a regular monthly series of international street profiles, we popped down to Lamb’s Conduit Street for a stroll and a little retail reconnaissance. Monocle’s Saul Taylor reports.
Things to improve your life
From a good froth to a lazy day-bed, the perfect bathing club to the saintliest apothecary, here is our personal pick of some of the best things we’ve found to improve your life. For…
Tomorrowland
For the past three decades Japanese fashion brand Tomorrowland has successfully navigated a fiercely competitive and highly sophisticated retail market. Under the helm of Hiroyuki Sasaki it made its name and built its reputation…
Genbei Yamaguchi
A decade ago it was rare to see a pair of Tokyo teenage boys out shopping in kimonos. But attitudes to national identity are starting to change. Genbei Yamaguchi's new collection for United Arrows…
Albam Clothing
Albam, a British fashion start-up, is keeping costs down without turning to factories in China for help. Founded by entrepreneurial fashion outsiders James Shaw and Alastair Rae, the duo's first shop is a breezy,…
