- Many Chinese dishes represent hopes for prosperity and are often made with extravagant ingredients from abalone to shark fin. But it doesn’t have to be this way
- Like Rolexes, ostentatious food is falling out of favour with the young generation, who embrace cheaper, sustainable and sometimes plant-based alternatives
- Many Chinese dishes represent hopes for prosperity and are often made with extravagant ingredients from abalone to shark fin. But it doesn’t have to be this way
- Like Rolexes, ostentatious food is falling out of favour with the young generation, who embrace cheaper, sustainable and sometimes plant-based alternatives
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.
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.
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.
‘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.