https://www.scmp.com/rss/13366/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Tina Brown, Fiona Ellis, Arianna Huffington and Tiffany Shlain are fine examples of women who have climbed hard and fast to the top of their career ladders. STYLE meets with them to find out what makes them tick. The filmmaker founded the Webby Awards and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Shlain, 37, lives in California with her husband, Ken Goldberg, and four-year-old daughter, Odessa. Wake-up call? I wake around 7.30am; earlier if I want to write or if my four-year-old... https://www.scmp.com/article/619460/top-game-tiffany-shlain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/619460/top-game-tiffany-shlain?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:00:00 +0000 Turkish delight V2K is a savvy multi-brand store stocking fashion labels from New York. To highlight the urban New York cool, the label effuses, Turkish firm Autoban was recruited to design the label's new space in Akmerkez, the most prestigious shopping centre in Istanbul. Autoban's approach is to mix the traditional with the contemporary. V2K applied the same principle, juxtaposing concrete surfaces with brass and wooden display units. The store's exterior resembles the front... https://www.scmp.com/article/614056/architecture-and-interiors?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/614056/architecture-and-interiors?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:00:00 +0000 Pearls of wisdom Avant-garde fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto is following in the footsteps of other fashion houses by extending its collection to accessories. Mikimoto - the name you go to for pearls - invited Yamamoto to produce a jewellery collection. Yamamoto based his jewellery collection on pearls and named his three lines of fine jewellery Stormy Weather. All the pieces possess gentle lines and aren't pretentious or ostentatious. Rock solid Swarovski is undergoing an image revival thanks... https://www.scmp.com/article/614053/objects-desire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/614053/objects-desire?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:00:00 +0000 Italian jobs The Business of Design Week (BODW), which showcases Asia's cutting edge designers, will be held next month. More than 100 designers will take part in the event from December 10-15, and participants this year include industry leaders Tom Dixon and Marc Newson. This year Italy is partner country, so expect to see all things great in design from that country including Exhibition Maestri and architect Massimiliano Fuksas. This year BODW will hold a symposium on... https://www.scmp.com/article/614054/books-exhibitions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/614054/books-exhibitions?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:00:00 +0000 Crate expectations Established & Sons works with the best in British design talent to produce quality furniture designs for the global market. And Jasper Morrison is part of that talent pool. His latest product, The Crate Series for Established & Sons, grew from a collaboration called The Crate. The product's name says it all: it's a crate that can also work as a bedside table or as storage units. With The Crate Series, Morrison has provided insight to furnishing for small and... https://www.scmp.com/article/614055/furniture?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/614055/furniture?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:00:00 +0000 Duckie Brown Quote 'The shoulder of a jacket is always the starting point for every collection and then we work from there. Each collection begins where the last one left off. Everything around us inspires us: the people we know, the places we go and the people who buy Duckie Brown.' Style In Duckie Brown's autumn/winter 2007/2008 collection, shots of colour burst through otherwise monochrome outfits - an International Klein Blue pair of gloves accenting grey flannel pinstripes, an orange... https://www.scmp.com/article/607718/talk-catwalk?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/607718/talk-catwalk?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:00:00 +0000 NOT SINCE PAT McGRATH has the fashion world been this excited about a make-up artist. Alex Box, 34, with her white-blond hair, pale skin and red lipstick, is shaking up the fashion world with her unstoppable creativity. Beauty journalist Bethan Cole recently wrote in The Sunday Times, 'Watching her on a shoot, painting on an intricate metallic eye with swooping curves of gilt pigment and tiny gold flecks, I'm transfixed. It is part Sun Ra, part Doctor and the Medics psychedelic-gothic, part ... https://www.scmp.com/article/588742/box-clever?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/588742/box-clever?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000 Alex Box's top beauty products 1. Shu Uemura eyelash curlers 'The best curl a girl can get.' 2. Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant 'A skin polish for baby-smooth skin.' 3. Chanel Vitalumiere foundation 'For gorgeous dewy skin.' 4. Babe Cake solid eyeliner by Benefit 'Has both a brown and black side so you can mix your own strength of cat-like flick.' 5. Base Lumiere by Chanel 'A luminous highlighter for accentuating cheekbones and skin.' 6. Water 'Drink it and spritz it - it's the... https://www.scmp.com/article/588741/make-art?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/588741/make-art?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000 'BEING ON TOP OF THE POPS was good,' says Tom Dixon about his appearance on the British television chart show with his band Funkapolitan. Before becoming the toast of the design world, Dixon was an art-school dropout with a passion for music and motorbikes. Born in Tunisia in 1959 to a French/Latvian mother and an English father, Dixon was brought up in London from the age of four. After ditching art school he recorded an album with Funkapolitan. It was the 1980s and post-punk was in the... https://www.scmp.com/article/570067/tom-dixon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/570067/tom-dixon?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:00:00 +0000 LONG BEFORE HANDBAGS for men became trendy, leather designer Bill Amberg was already creating bags for what he calls 'the independent-minded man; adventurous with a great sense of humour'. The Bill Amberg brand of leather goods has, for more than 20 years, sated well-heeled men's appetites for beautifully crafted leather bags and accessories. Bill Amberg set up his company designing leather goods in London in 1984. Today the company is divided into three divisions: design, architecture and... https://www.scmp.com/article/563213/leather-bound?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/563213/leather-bound?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:00:00 +0000 Maximillion Cooper, founder of the Gumball Rally, explains how what started as an excuse for a party is now a global extravaganza - from Thailand to Croatia. I HAD THIS IDEA to do a 'cannonball run' across Europe. I phoned 50 friends and told them about a Wacky Races sort of event where everyone drives their own car and comes together to have a party every night. This was how Gumball Rally started, in April 1999, with 55 cars. The rally stretches over 4,800km and is a tremendous test of... https://www.scmp.com/article/559067/wheels-fortune?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/559067/wheels-fortune?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000