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British designer Faye Toogood on her humanist, playful homeware, interiors and clothing – interview

The perfect black leather gloves for winter: channel Anne Hathaway with Gucci and Saint Laurent

Who is Ben Gorham, who’s been hanging out with Kendall Jenner? Meet the ex-basketballer and founder of luxury fragrance brand Byredo

Fashion ‘outsider’ Hanan Besovic on American Vogue, Duran Lantink’s debut for Jean Paul Gaultier, and loving ‘bad’ collections

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Kate Middleton-favoured coats, Downton Abbey-esque outfits: British country clothing takes over runways amid fashion’s heritage brand revival

A look by British designer S.S. Daley.

Looks by British gunsmith and sporting brand James Purdey & Sons. The well-heeled country set has taken to stalking the fashion runways as blue-blooded brands bring their quintessentially rural collections into the urban mainstream.

Erdem partnered with Barbour for its spring/summer 2024 collection.

Barbour has teamed up with British designer and influencer Alexa Chung.

Jade Holland Cooper wearing Holland Cooper. The brand is the fashion partner for the Cheltenham Festival.

Fairfax & Favour collections are stylish classics crafted to sit comfortably in country and city wardrobes alike.

Really Wild Clothing offers beautifully fitted tweed coats and hacking jackets and is worn by the likes of the Princess of Wales.

It’s as if Britain’s well-heeled country set is stalking the fashion runways – blue-blooded brands such as Barbour are updating their quintessentially rural collections for modern urban lifestyles.


Grunge meets bohemian is the theme of autumn/winter ’24 collection by Saks Potts, arbiters of Scandi cool whose wardrobe has something for all

Looks from the Saks Potts autumn/winter 2024 collection. The childhood friends behind the Copenhagen-based label talke about how it was born out of their failed quest for a colourful coat in the monochrome-obsessed capital of Denmark.

Looks from Saks Potts autumn/winter 2024 collection.

One of Saks Potts’ signature shearling coats.

Saks Potts founders Catherine Saks and Barbara Potts launched the brand in 2014.

A look from the Saks Potts autumn/winter 2024 collection.

Looks from the Saks Potts autumn/winter 2024 collection.

Potts and Saks have managed to build a 20-strong team of people who live and breathe their brand. 

Saks Potts’ AW24 collection takes inspiration from Kate Moss’ grunge-meets-bohemian looks of the 2010s. The childhood friends behind the Copenhagen-based label talk about how it was born.


Fashion meant self-expression for New Yorker Alison Loehnis growing up. It became her career when she moved to London, to LVMH, then Yoox Net-a-Porter

Alison Loehnis, the Yoox Net-a-Porter boss, tells Kate Whitehead about falling in love with fashion, being trained to within an inch of her life at Ralph Lauren and how landing in London led to her dream job.

Alison Loehnis as a child.

Loehnis in May 2023. Growing up, fashion was always representative of self-expression and freedom for her.

Loehnis joined Net-a-Porter in 2007. 

New Yorker Alison Loehnis, the Yoox Net-a-Porter boss, tells Kate Whitehead about falling in love with fashion, being trained to within an inch of her life at Ralph Lauren and landing her dream job in London.


10 iconic looks in Asian cinema, from that Bruce Lee jumpsuit to Akira’s biker in a bomber jacket to Faye Wong’s chopped hair in Chungking Express

Bruce Lee in a still from Game of Death. Photo: Criterion Collection

Faye Wong in a still from Chungking Express (1994). With her chopped hair and effervescent personality, the Cantopop star encapsulated the energy of the 1990s in this movie. We look at some other looks in Asian movies whose looks have been influential.

Meiko Kaji in a still from Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972).

Chow Yun-fat in a still from A Better Tomorrow.

A still from Akira. 

Jacklyn Wu (left) with Andy Lau in a still from A Moment of Romance.

Faye Wong in a still from Chungking Express.

Maggie Cheung in a still from In the Mood for Love.

Rie Ino as nightmarish antagonist Sadako in a still from Ring.

Tadanobu Asano in a still from Ichi the Killer.

Choi Min-sik in a still from Oldboy.

From Bruce Lee’s golden get-up in Game of Death to the nightmarish long hair and white nightdress worn by antagonist Sadako in Japanese horror Ring, we look at 10 iconic looks from Asian cinema.


Things to do in Florence, and where to stay: see the art – Uffizi Gallery, Michelangelo’s David – and Ferragamo’s shoes, and shop on the Ponte Vecchio

A statue on display in the Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence, Italy, home to Michelangelo’s David. Photo: Getty Images

The Palazzo Spini Feroni, home to a museum devoted to the history of the Ferragamo luxury brand from its founding by shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo. It is one of many things to see in the Italian Renaissance city that hosts the annual Pitti Uomo menswear fashion shows. Photo: Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty Images

Men’s fashion is celebrated in Florence at Pitti Uomo, the semi-annual trade show that is almost as much theatre as it is business. 

Well-dressed men are a fixture at Pitti Uomo, in Florence, Italy. 

Author Alan Behr in the press room at Pitti Uomo. He was surprised by the attention given to journalists at the event. Photo: TNS

Pitti Uomo was held in the 14th-century Fortezza da Basso, in Florence. Photo: Shutterstock

Shoes are displayed in the Ferragamo museum in the Palazzo Spini Feroni, in Florence. Photo: Corbis via Getty Images

Villa Cora, in Florence, at dawn on a winter’s day. Photo: TNS

 The Galleria dell’Accademia Museum, in Florence, is home to Michelangelo’s David. Photo: Getty Images

Come for the fashion, stay for the art: a visit to Florence to attend the Pitti Uomo menswear shows is an opportunity to see the best of the Italian Renaissance city, including Michelangelo’s David.


She’s worked with Adidas, Canon and Mirror: hot Hong Kong photographer Leung Yat-ting on why taking pictures is only ‘half of the job’

An image shot by Hong Kong photographer Leung Yat-ting, who goes by the name Leungmo. Her work has graced the pages of fashion magazines Vogue HK,  Grazia and Elle Men.. Photo courtesy of Leungmo


Hong Kong photographer Leung Yat-ting, aka Leungmo, has worked with Nikon, fashion magazines and celebrities including singer Joyce Cheng. She opens up about what inspires her and gives tips for those starting out in photography. Photo: courtesy of Leungmo

A photo by Leung. Her work has graced the pages of fashion magazines Vogue HK, Grazia and Elle Men. Photo: courtesy of Leungmo

A photo by Leung. Photo: courtesy of Leungmo 

While Leung gets inspiration from everywhere, nature is her biggest source. Photo: Leungmo 

A photo from Leung’s All Good exhibition, which featured photos of Hongkongers wearing protective gear during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Leungmo 

As one of Hong Kong’s most in-demand photographers, Leung Yat-ting, aka Leungmo, has worked with Adidas, Vogue and more. She talks about her inspirations and offers advice to young photographers.


Fish skin leather, onion peel dyes: sustainable fashion designers from Hong Kong put their own spin on traditional crafts

Hong Kong-born, Vancouver-based Noelle Lee works with a natural tanning process to transform fish skin (mostly salmon) to leather. Photo: Noelle Lee


Some of the plants Hong Kong fashion designer Kinyan Lam works with at his Genau Studio, in Hong Kong’s Sai Kung district, which focuses on sustainable natural dyes. Photo: Courtesy of Kinyan Lam

Fabrics painted with natural dyes from Lam’s Genau Studio. Photo: Courtesy of Kinyan Lam

Lam works at his studio in Sai Kung. Photo: Courtesy of Kinyan Lam

Lee uses a natural tanning process to transform fish skin – mostly salmon – into leather. Photo: Noelle Lee

Lam descales Pacific salmon skins as part of her leather-making process. Photo: Kyra Fay

Pacific salmon skins are de-fleshed as part of Lam’s leather-making process. Photo: Kyra Fay

Fashion designer Noelle Lee. Photo: Kyra Fay

Hong Kong fashion designers describe how they use sustainable materials such as natural dyes made from foods like onion peel and pomegranates, and leather made from fish skin.


How in Hong Kong an amusing T-shirt slogan could land you in hot water in today’s ‘easily offended’ climate

T-shirts with unusual messages can often be seen in Hong Kong. Photo: Instagram/hongkongtshirtpatrol

Unusual T-shirts in Hong Kong. Photo: Instagram /@hongkongtshirtpatrol

Hong Kong residents have been chuckling away at amusing T-shirt slogans since the 1980s, but only the foolish or careless are laughing now.


Laminated brow trend has got nothing on eyebrow styles of ancient China – drawn to look like feathers, tadpoles, daggers or silkworm cocoons

Depending on the fashions of the period, some of the brows that ancient and medieval Chinese women drew on their own faces would be considered bizarre and even comical today. Photo: Getty Images

Laminated eyebrows are trending these days, but thousands of years ago in ancient China women shaped their eyebrows in more extreme ways. A city governor in the Han dynasty (74 to 48BC) was impeached for helping his wife with her eye make-up. Photo: Shutterstock 

Laminated brows have been treated with a perming lotion – the hairs have been teased apart, straightened and combed upwards. Women in ancient China did far more radical styling of their eyebrows. Photo: Shutterstock

Eyebrow cosmetics were widely used in ancient China, where women drew eyebrows shaped like feathers, tadpoles, daggers, even fat silkworm cocoons according to the fashions of their time.


From The Wizard of Oz to Taylor Swift, graphic T-shirts can pack a political or social punch – but only sometimes

Taylor Swift performs onstage during her Eras tour in 2023 in California. Graphic T-shirts like the one she is wearing here can often pack a political or social punch even when they are not intended to by their designers. Photo: Getty Images

One of the T-shirts Swift wore.

Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael (left) of the pop group Wham!, arriving in London in 1984. Photo: Getty Images

Art from the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in 2023 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Photo: Getty Images

Graphic T-shirts – shirts with slogans or phrases – can often pack a political or social punch even when they do not mean to. The tees Taylor Swift wears on stage on tour are just the latest example of that.


The ‘quiet luxury’ trend in Chinese dining: how showy ingredients like bird’s nest are out with young epicures, who eat without breaking the bank

Yusheng is a newly popular Chinese dish for prosperity that doesn’t break the bank. It is part of a growing trend of “quiet luxury” in Chinese food that eschews ostentatious ingredients such as abalone and sea cucumber. Photo: Shutterstock

Yusheng originated in Malaysia and Singapore, but has become popular in recent years thanks to social media. Photo: Getty Images

Each component of yusheng represents a desire for the year ahead – mostly involving wealth. Photo: Jenny Lau

Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy in a still from HBO’s Succession. Photo: HBO

Poon choi has humble origins in Hong Kong’s rural walled villages. Photo: Jenny Lau

Yusheng is about eating for wealth, not eating wealth; there’s a difference. Photo: Jenny Lau

Chinese epicures are moving away from ‘loud luxury’ ingredients such as abalone, shark fin and bird’s nest, and choosing sophistication over ostentation, while still dining auspiciously.


The most coveted drops of the season, Scandinavian fashion and more from the spring/summer 2024 shows.
 


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The most coveted drops of the season, Scandinavian fashion and more from the spring/summer 2024 shows.