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How Kim Jones is shaking up menswear
The way we travel obsesses Louis Vuitton’s acclaimed menswear designer, Kim Jones, and inspires his concepts.
Viva la Diva chez Bulgari
Bulgari’s director of gem acquisitions, Lucia Silvestri, leaves no stone unturned in her hunt for the precious gems that go into the Italian brand’s jewels, Jeni Porter writes.
Riding the Max Mara coat tales
Luigi Maramotti has strong views on many things, from a distaste for star designer egos, to resisting the ghettoism of fashion, to cheese. The chairman of the Italian coat company Max Mara shows Marion Hume around the company’s small-town headquarters.
Ethical fashion? No, it’s not an oxymoron
Africa’s poorest are hand-crafting accessories for some of the world’s richest. It’s not philanthropy but good business, the Italian who forged the links tells Matthew Drummond.
Where art meets fashion
Collaborating with artists yields commercial as well as aesthetic value for savvy fashion houses, writes Alison Kubler.
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Face of the future: Samantha Harris
Model Samantha Harris is putting her soulful beauty to good use as the face of the first Australian Indigenous Fashion Week.
The lost merino: a yarn about the missing wool market
New Zealand leads the way in producing merino wool clothing for the great outdoors. It’s an $800 million market that Australia should have cornered, writes Jason Murphy.
Top to toe accessories
A Jonathan Howard headpiece, lion-themed Chanel jewels, Hermès gloves, Valentino pumps, and more.
When fashion watches are anything but fashionable
What makes a watch fashionable at the moment is being anything but a ‘fashion’ watch – most of which are junk.
The power of propaganda
David Welch’s new book details how cultural stereotypes have long been used by propagandists to persuade us to their cause. And in the information age, they are as strong as ever.
Elegant and abel bodied wines
Winemaker Abel Gibson pours character into the Ruggabellus blends, and their names.
Knitting: Lucy Durack’s backstage habit
The star of hit stage shows Wicked and Legally Blonde finds serenity in the sound of clicking needles.
