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15 results for Arles

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Coast to clothes

27 June 2024

Beyond the city limits, warm sun, cool breezes and slow living ensure a novel approach to business. Here, we discover three island brands that could only have been founded where the shore meets the sea.

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The Agenda: Design

23 May 2024

Mobility aids reimagined and Gucci’s game-changing furniture reissue.

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The new wave

16 June 2022

Surfwear, footwear, city shorts and relaxed shirts – summer holidays are all about breezy, effortless dressing. From Bali to Brazil, we’ve found the new generation of retailers selling the best summery brands.

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Lay of the land

24 March 2022

Ahead of the country’s presidential election, we take a roadtrip across southern France to detect whether the far-right will oust Macron.

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Bringing it all back home

2 November 2021

Fendi’s ‘F’ logo is evocative of fashion at its most refined. And its new partnership with investment group Design Holding could soon see it become equally associated with fine furniture and interior design. Fendi’s CEO,…

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Back to life

27 May 2021

After months of enforced slumber, the art world is stretching its limbs and taking a breath of fresh air. Projects waiting in the wings, events put on hold and venues kept under wraps are now seeing the light of day. Here’s…

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Join our club

17 October 2019

All over the world canny chefs and cooks are rethinking the formula for eating out. From changing restaurant residencies for visiting chefs to opening up farm tables to homes or backyards, such supper clubs offer intimacy…

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Human touch

21 February 2019

Innovative media brands are helping audiences to look up from their screens and find meaningful connections by making them part of the show.

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Winning Toulouse

18 October 2018

Meet the French duo who are showing the fashion world how to do retail – and they’re not even based in Paris.

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Paradise found

13 June 2018

Escaping the bustle of Paris, a handful of designers and makers are setting up shop in Arles, reviving this quiet Provençal city’s fabled fashion traditions.

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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 72: Luma Arles

4 September 2017

We visit the Luma Arles creative-arts hub. Made up of former railway warehouses, the site will soon welcome a new architectural feature – a 56-metre tall tower designed by architect Frank Gehry. We check out the view.

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Tracking changes

17 August 2017

Occupying former railway warehouses, Luma Arles is a gallery going full steam ahead with big ambitions and big ideas.

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Art market

15 April 2015

We look ahead to Frieze art fair's return to New York and meet the founders of Photo London.

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The Monocle Daily, episode 560

20 December 2013

We ask whether governments should ever be held responsible for natural disasters, assess New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s last policy push as he warms the seat for Bill de Blasio, and speak to Adam Arling from the Minn…

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Arles Photography Festival

17 July 2012

What Cannes is to film and Venice is to architecture - Arles is to photography. Our Monocle film crew headed down to the South of France for the opening week of Les Rencontres d'Arles - the world's leading photography…