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The 2024 Fashion Issue
The most coveted drops of the season, Scandinavian fashion and more from the spring/summer 2024 shows.
Updated: 05 Apr, 2024
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Downton Abbey effect: British country clothing takes over fashion catwalks
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.
17 Mar, 2024
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Profile | Saks Potts, arbiters of Scandi cool whose wardrobe has something for all
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.
15 Mar, 2024
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‘Fashion was freedom’: Yoox Net-a-Porter boss on London and her dream job
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.
16 Mar, 2024
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10 iconic looks in Asian cinema, including that Bruce Lee jumpsuit
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.
14 Mar, 2024
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Things to see in Florence: Uffizi Gallery, Michelangelo, Ferragamo’s shoes
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.
17 Mar, 2024
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Shooting star: the rapid rise of Hong Kong photographer 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.
15 Mar, 2024
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The sustainable fashion designers using fish skin leather, onion peel dyes
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.
18 Mar, 2024
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Then & Now | Avoid the Pooh: when funny T-shirts and slogans are no longer amusing
Hong Kong residents have been chuckling away at amusing T-shirt slogans since the 1980s, but only the foolish or careless are laughing now.
16 Mar, 2024
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Reflections | Laminated brow trend has got nothing on eyebrow styles of ancient China
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.
17 Mar, 2024
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Language Matters | Are we reading too much into Taylor Swift’s graphic tees? Maybe, maybe not
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.
14 Mar, 2024
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Bye bye, bird’s nest: young Chinese diners pivot to ‘quiet’ luxury food
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.
17 Mar, 2024
