Balenciaga unveils China-exclusive looks in Beijing Alexander Wang Takes Balenciaga to Beijing As part of the ongoing whirl of designers taking elaborate shows to...
Peter Pilotto wins the 2014 BFC/Vogue Design Fund When Peter Pilotto and Christopher de Vos won the latest British Fashion Council/Vogue Design Fund award last...
Dress designer Ruben Singer plays fashion fortissimo for Beyonce Russian designer Rubin Singer scored a huge touchdown at the Super Bowl on February 5, and he wasn’t even on the...
The Fairmont Peace Hotel, Shanghai The-Fairmont-Peace-Hotel When a callow youth I played Elyot, one of two husbands in Noel Coward’s Private...
Great literary hotels of Asia continue to inspire artist and travelers In September, Louis Vuitton opened a unique maison in Singapore. It is the first store in the brand’s...
The battle for the soul of Aman’s luxury chain of resorts turns nasty The latest edition of Fortune magazine has a brilliantly forensic examination of the chaos that has descended on Aman...
Bicester Village heads to China Their second favourite place in the UK is Bicester Village (after Windsor Castle). Think how happy Chinese label...
Ma Jian Ma Jian’s novel The Dark Road uses scorching satire to expose the agony that China’s One Child Policy has brought...
PRINCE ALBERT OPENS THE NEW YACHT CLUB DE MONACO WITH A SPECTACULAR PARTY It was just after sunset when I arrived at the opening party for Prince Albert II’s spanking new yacht club...
Jing Yaa Tang makes The Opposite House taste grand China has an astonishingly diverse food culture but it can take courage to try a new restaurant where the rice might be...
Perrier-Jouët, the master gardener Perrier-Jouët has been transforming grapes into the magic of champagne for over two centuries. Since 1993...
Chinese caviar finds fortune with the New York Times Since the USSR fell and the state’s monopoly on the sturgeon egg delicacy ended experts estimate that 90% of the...
A George Nelson retrospective reveals the inner secrets of modernist design Nelson’s Sideboard A retrospective of the works of George Nelson (1908-1986) at HKDI Gallery from March through...
White Cube Hong Kong unveils Jake & Dinos Chapman’s The Sum of all Evil Ronald Goes Fishing Nailing Ronald McDonald to a cross (hundreds of times)is among the more restrained antics of...
New technology transforms printing into a turbo-charged art form Evolutionary Landscape by Eve Stockton, Relief Print, Woodcut In 868AD, during the Tang dynasty, the...
