Retail
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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.
Top 20
Why France? Why not? It’s home to many of our favourite labels, haunts and titles; here are a few.
French fancy
The birthplace of countless couturiers might be known for chic womenswear but its men are masters of dressing down.
Gallic charms
A covetable collection of superior stationery, quirky homeware and fun-loving accessories. Plus some beautifully packaged chocolate for the sweet of tooth (and discerning of taste).
Fashion
A round-up from Pitti Uomo, timeless bags from Lucie Cast and some branded kit fit for a president.
Always chic
Our pick of accessories with a French spin that will ensure every outfit has a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’.
Ringing the changes
Venerable French institution Galeries Lafayette is ripping up the retail rulebook with the opening of its bold new Champs-Élysées branch.
In sharp focus
Magrabi Retail is the biggest luxury eyewear firm in the Middle East. We meet the two visionary siblings at the helm of this hugely successful family-owned brand.
