chinese shopping

Chinese Are Traveling More but Shopping Less

Zhiyuan Zhuang, an assistant store manager at a Bottega Veneta shop in Milan, remembers the boom times through 2012, when the first wave of Chinese shoppers were a ray of sunlight amid the gloomy European...
Francesca Amfitheatrof in the Tiffany studio with sketches of her first collection, which launches this month.

Home and Work | Brunch at Tiffany’s

  Francesca Amfitheatrof in the Tiffany studio with sketches of her first collection, which launches this month. The sight, from across the street, of Francesca Amfitheatrof taking in the morning...

Toulouse-Lautrec retrospective at the MoMA

Toulouse-Lautrec’s work is so ubiquitous it’s sometimes difficult to see. You might meet La Goulue or Jane Avril at a framing store or in a hotel bathroom but your eye grazes them without dwelling on the...

‘Paris Syndrome’ Drives Chinese Tourists Away

An epidemic is gripping Chinese tourists visiting the French capital: the Paris syndrome. Like their Japanese counterparts, first-time visitors from China -- fed on media reports and movies like “An...
The best fashion people to follow on Instagram

The best fashion people to follow on Instagram

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 and Isabella Blow by David LaChapelle

Designed for Destruction

  Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow by David LaChapelle For a time, starting in the early 1990s, Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen were inseparable—fashion muse and master—lovers without...