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The bond between fashion brands and artists is usually a marriage of convenience but the “Lady Dior As Seen By...” project that celebrates the Maison's iconic bag is an honourable exception. Daniel...

Pens create powerful emotions. When I visited the Hero pen factory in Shanghai recently (the plant is now mostly artists’ studios) many China friends told me how they had craved the writing instrument when...

Neo Xiaobin Straits Times photojournalist Neo Xiaobin has won Singapore's most coveted photography award, the Icon de Martell Cordon Bleu 2014. The 30-year-old, who has worked at The Straits Times since...

The Martell Trunk packs thrills for lovers of exquisite eau de vie and spectacular craftsmanship. Daniel Jeffreys reports. The lilting overture that begins the second act of Mozart’s The Magic Flute is so...

When Karl Lagerfeld took over at Chanel thirty years ago the iconic fashion house was struggling, the economy was in crisis and the brand’s owner said his expectations were low.  Three decades later and...

Emanuela Santi is an event producer for Tuff Consult, which has created spectacular occasions for Amfar in Cannes and luxury brands throughout Hong Kong and China. When asked to take charge of her brother’s...

Call us voyeurs but we love nothing more than a glimpse into the lives of our favourite fashion folk, and this is exactly what Instagram affords us. Here, we bring you our favourites to follow (in no...

Alexander McQueen, the uber-cool and always fascinating British design house, has become the latest label to join the list of top class brands at Value Retail's Yi Ou Lai Suzhou shopping tourism...

Christophe Navarre, CEO of Moët Hennessy, announced today (Friday July 25th) that Jean-Marc Lacave is to become President and Regional Managing Director of Moët Hennessy Asia Pacific.   Jean-Marc Lacave,...

What is the mark of a truly great fashion photograph? When it makes you shiver, says Sarah Mower. A new book shows the most sublime from the past 100 years. Vogue always did stand for people’s lives....