Fashion
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Good buy to Berlin
Stray off Berlin Mitte’s well-trodden tourist route to find the charming Gipsstrasse. Full of independent shops, ateliers, galleries and cafés, it should be a template for the rest of the capital.
Inventory No. 21
Our monthly guide to what's hot in the shops. This month: the latest Panasonic Lumix camera, typeface Top Trumps, hand-me-down canvas bags, a Lebanese cookbook and an Italian Lemonade.
Architecture/design
Monocle's picks from the Stockholm furniture fair, an interview with Salvadoran duo the Washingtons, a layered house in Hokkaido and a pad that warms the cockles in the chilly far north of Norway.
On the shelf
we peruse the shelves of the thriving, eclectic magazine shop Papercut in Stockholm.
Market force
This month we start a new series that decodes the DNA of success – of anything. First up is a San Francisco food store that has become an urban sensation.
Happy mendings
In a world of throwaway consumerism, tradesmen are giving cherished possessions a new lease of life. We visit a Milan cobbler who repairs brogues and a Buenos Aires luxury watch atelier.
Retail therapy
As banks and carmakers get bail-outs, should retail be next? We argue a complete re-think is what’s really needed to keep the high street healthy, not government handouts.
Inventory no.22
Additions to our desks, shelves and cupboards include a Japanese wooden cutlery set for children, a perfect pencil case and a Spanish pencil sharpener fashioned with military precision.
Showering dressing
April brings wardrobe challenges. For the best in rainwear, tailoring and knitwear, Monocle heads to the streets and cosy shelters of Hayama, one hour south of Tokyo.
French twist
Monocle makes for a rendezvous in the quiet backstreets and canals of Paris’s 10th arrondissement in spring’s freshest ensembles for work days and weekends.
