March 2020

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Contributors
A leading protagonist of the Pictures Generation, Longo is best known for his Men in the Cities charcoal-and-graphite drawings of sharply attired men and women in flailing motion. They came to typify the 1980s and continue to be a staple of fashion s
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The Long Game
Welcome to our biannual Style Special, which focuses on the S/S20 fashion collections, and celebrates fresh talent and standout looks that have sparked our imagination this season. To kick things off, we’re turning the spotlight on three perennial fa
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Turn Of The Screw
As part of her master’s degree in product design at ECAL, Korean designer Byongseon Bae sought to redefine basic DIY by creating a simple, intuitive cordless screwdriver that would be both easy to use and aesthetically pleasing. Power tools have been
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The Vinson View
The specialist repairs department at shoe brand Church’s in Northampton can make use of up to 60 processes to repair and refurbish a shoe. I once sent them a 25-year-old pair to fix. church-footwear.com Shirts by Pink are built to last, and will look
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Staying Power
Established in 1969, Sportmax speaks of the vitality and liberation of the 1970s. Influenced by his trips to New York, its Italian founder Achille Maramotti envisioned the brand as the urbane, go-ahead sister of Max Mara, which he had launched from a
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Lip sync
Pierre Hardy gently brushes his thumb over a gold-coloured indent at the top of a new Hermès lipstick tube. It is engraved with the house’s ornate ex-libris emblem chosen by Émile-Maurice Hermès in 1923. ‘The top curves inward a bit like a fingerprin
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Green Shoots
A new decade brings a fresh opportunity for the fashion industry to face up to its responsibility in tackling the climate crisis. Having graduated from some of the world’s best schools and earned their stripes working alongside luxury heritage brands
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Parallel Universe
The ‘retail apocalypse’, a technology-driven blight, is leaving ailing high streets and zombie malls in its wake. Amazon, Alibaba and other e-commerce players, large and small, have transformed shopping into a sofa-based scroll and shoot. Well that’s
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Fashion’s AI future
Data as much as design now drives the fashion industry. E-commerce – though still less significant in pure sales terms than bricks-and-mortar stores – generates an astonishing amount of information about what we buy, where we buy it, or what we looke
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Moving Mountains
There are few more goal-driven activities than the act of climbing a mountain – particularly when its cloud-brushing peak happens to be the tallest in the world. Yet when Sohei Nishino embarked on an intense 23-day climbing trip on Mount Everest, his
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Golden Era
In 1969, the Greek goldsmith-jeweller Ilias Lalaounis opened his headquarters near the Acropolis in Athens. Drawn to the mythology of his home, Lalaounis’ bold, warm, 22ct-gold designs referenced ancient narratives and Hellenic symbols, and were craf
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Wiggle Room
Sunset Park, nestled between the East River waterfront and Brooklyn’s Chinatown, has seen an influx of creatives, taking over the former Navy Yard buildings and industrial spaces. Among them is 30-year-old designer Misha Kahn, who has set up his new
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Grill Power
With three of London’s most iconic luxury hotels in its portfolio (Claridge’s, The Connaught and The Berkeley), the Maybourne Hotel Group is proof that good things come in small packages. Founded by Belfast-born businessman Paddy McKillen in 2004, th
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City Sanctum
Behind a sober wooden door, on a quiet back street in the north Marais, lies an exquisite slice of Japan, a contemporary shrine to its design and food traditions. Occupying a 17th-century hôtel particulier, Ogata brings together the art of tea, fine
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Departure Info
What started with the hot-ticket Potato Head Beach Club and Katamama hotel on Bali’s Seminyak Beach has extended into a fully-fledged creative village with the opening of the Creative Centre, a brutalist beachfront courtyard designed by Dutch archite

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