Author TheFashionableTruth

I first met Francesca Amfitheatrof at her home in London. She was living in a lovely property in Hoxton, with her husband and two children. White walls framed the space and everywhere I looked there was...

In Northwest China, at the edge of the Gobi desert, a sinuous line of vertiginous cliffs is home to the Mogao grottoes. Although inspired by the Buddhist faith, these ancient caverns are more than a...

Quintessentially Asia is a luxury lifestyle magazine with the brain of Jane Austen, the style of Audrey Hepburn, the passion of Ai Wei Wei and the creativity of I.M.Pei. It stands alone in Hong Kong as the...

Alicia Walker discovers the compelling mosaic-style works of Joe Black, a contemporary British artist whose first Asia exhibition was hosted by Hong Kong’s Opera Gallery. Big Mac (Elvis), 8,000...

The Rauschenbach family took over IWC Schaffhausen in 1880 and in 1905 one of the clan’s daughters married Carl Gustav Jung, thus making the 20th century’s second most famous psychiatrist a co-owner of...

The Fendi gene under the direction of SilviaVenturiniFendi, the fashion house created by her indomitable grandparents has produced some of the most coveted accessories in the world. It’s all in the DNA - and...

The latest edition of Fortune magazine has a brilliantly forensic examination of the chaos that has descended on Aman Resorts, a company that gets its name from the Sanskrit word for "peace". The story...

One of Hong Kong’s youngest restaurants has one of the city’s newest Michelin stars, and it’s all down to a Japanese chef, who is a wizard with Shanghainese cuisine. Yu Lei's Michelin One Star...

Yves Carcelle, architect of Louis Vuitton’s ascendancy, dies of cancer at 66. Daniel Jeffreys remembers a genius of marketing and luxury whose loss leaves a void that will be hard to fill. Yves...

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...