Fashion
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Messing with Texas
Texas is big. It’s about big money, big cars and big characters. But a new side is emerging that’s attracting a different kind of crowd – and looking kind of cool.
Let me be your fantasy
Jonathan Anderson, creative director at Loewe, talks about how he has grown the brand: from taking it outside to taking it slow.
Talking shop
From Tokyo's Isetan to Bogotá's design studios, the world's most forward-thinking retailers are proving that bricks-and-mortar shopping remains indispensable — for neighbourhoods, culture and commerce alike.
Texans in town
Dallas’s department-store stalwart Neiman Marcus and leading fashion boutique Forty Five Ten have rolled into the Big Apple with huge new spaces. It’s a bold move when bricks-and-mortar openings are a risk.
Well heeled
For beautifully made, perfectly fitting shoes, this family-run atelier is the business.
Hit refresh
As the season changes, it’s time for a wardrobe update with clean, cool neutrals, and crisp colours.
Beauty contest
Chinese consumers can’t get enough of cosmetics, especially when it comes to high-end foreign brands. Hong Kong is benefitting from this insatiable demand and exploiting a loophole in China’s regulations.
Back to bright
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac — the designer who once clothed Madonna in teddy bears — is now tasked with returning Benetton to its boldly colourful, agenda-setting glory days.
Refusing to buckle
Luxury watch brands gather in Geneva and prove that, despite digitisation, this is a strapping industry that’s dialling into the demands of a new generation.
