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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…
Fashion
Berluti gives lessons for lace-ups, a Verbal assault on the jewellery trade, and Portland bags some style.
Fukuoka: retail city
Friendly, cosmopolitan Fukuoka is tiny in comparison to Tokyo, but it beats the Japanese capital hands down with its cuisine and shopping. That’s why itis Monocle’s choice for our best retail city award.
Fashion
In our Workhorse series we profile Scotland's premier cashmere company, Johnstons. Plus, a Q&A with the new owners of Bally, and wardrobe wants from Tomorrowland and Robinson les Bains.
Upwardly mobile
Milan's Salone del Mobile showed an optimistic mood despite the credit crunch, attracting a record 348,000 visitors. Many came from abroad, with a strong showing from booming South American countries.
Show time
Baselworld watch fair is where manufacturers unveil the new timepieces that often take years to craft. There are no quick sales either; brands eager to retain exclusivity don’t sell to any old oligarch.
Business
Making malls in Brazil, keeping faith with coal in Australia and how Japan has its finger on the pulse of the latest biometric technology.
India adds up
With 600 million people under 25, India has a booming consumer society. Monocle visits Mumbai’s ad agencies to see how brands are courting this new, heady atmosphere of creativity and commerce.
Africa/Middle East
Style tips from Libya's Great Style Leader and why watching TV in Lebanon can be fatal.
