https://www.scmp.com/rss/276437/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com For the past couple of years, I have watched as Gen Z had a field day with my era. Let them flash their taut abs, as they flit between festivals in their Y2K crop tops and low-slung jeans. Slip dresses and slogan tees? Enjoy. They say if you wore it the first time around, you should give it a wide berth on all subsequent resurrections. Who are “they”? I mean, I am happy to oblige with anything low-rise – even if you have been diligently doing Pilates for the past two decades, there are more... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/fashion/article/3235172/1990s-are-back-fashion-and-heres-why-we-should-all-be-grateful?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/fashion/article/3235172/1990s-are-back-fashion-and-heres-why-we-should-all-be-grateful?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:15:13 +0000 For weeks after 158 people were crushed to death in a Seoul alleyway, Song Hae-jin searched for the right psychological care for her teenage son. Lee Jae-hyun, 16, was with his two best friends in the trendy district of Itaewon when last year’s Halloween night out took a fatal turn. They were caught in the terrible crush of people in the warren of narrow streets that sits at the heart of the South Korean capital. “One was behind him so he couldn’t see his last moment, but the other friend was... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3221146/there-huge-pressure-developed-worlds-suicide-hot-spot-south-korea-battles-toxic-cocktail-issues?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3221146/there-huge-pressure-developed-worlds-suicide-hot-spot-south-korea-battles-toxic-cocktail-issues?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 May 2023 03:15:10 +0000 Every day, many of us English speakers quote William Shakespeare, even if we've never read a word of his plays. And we don't even know we're doing it. Such is the reach of Shakespeare's mastery of language that phrases he coined and popularised have, over the centuries since he was writing, been woven into everyday English vocabulary. They range from the obviously poetic to the seemingly banal, but if it wasn't for Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago this month, we wouldn't be using them at all.... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1931758/every-day-shakespeare-phrases-coined-bard-still-use-today?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1931758/every-day-shakespeare-phrases-coined-bard-still-use-today?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:00:00 +0000 On December 25, 1942, a two-year-old boy named Christopher received a model steam locomotive for Christmas. Handmade by his father, the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, the blue-painted train incorporated a sawn-off broomstick for the boiler, a tube of metal for the chimney and flattened-out carpet pins for wheels. On its side, Awdry had inscribed a gold number 1 and the letters NW, a little joke to himself (the engine was not part of any railway company and the letters stood for "nowhere"). "I played... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1805138/70-year-old-thomas-tank-engine-still-kids-favourite-ipad-age?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1805138/70-year-old-thomas-tank-engine-still-kids-favourite-ipad-age?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 May 2015 14:36:08 +0000 "I think," José Mourinho says, "I have a problem, which is I'm getting better at everything related to my job. There has been evolution in many areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology … I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite." Statistically speaking, Chelsea's Mourinho is the most successful club manager in world football. He has won the league titles in each of... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1774298/jose-mourinho-man-myth-legend?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1774298/jose-mourinho-man-myth-legend?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Apr 2015 11:00:15 +0000 Text: The Sunday Telegraph, UK Is it like having a superpower," I ask Yao Chen as she raises her coffee cup to her lips. The actress breaks into a broad smile as her translator explains my meaning. "I'm getting more mature," she says, avoiding the question. "These days I am much more careful and cautious." One could add the word "modest" to that list, because Yao, self-effacing as she is, has more followers on Weibo (the mainland's version of Twitter) than the population of Britain, France or... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1589316/click-magnet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1589316/click-magnet?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Sep 2014 02:30:15 +0000 Midlothian Castle To Peter Camani, a retired Canadian teacher, there is no greater material than concrete. "It's the cheapest material you can use that'll basically last for ever," he says. "And I can do it all myself - if I tried to use metal I'd have to get involved with a lot of other people." For 25 years, concrete, cheap and versatile, has allowed him to work single-handedly on his home - a turreted "castle" with walls two feet deep - and a series of 100 sculptures he calls the "screaming... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1525178/home-strange-home?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1525178/home-strange-home?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Jun 2014 16:57:34 +0000 In 1963, when comic-book legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the X-Men, they could have had no idea what they had spawned. At the time, Spider-Man, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four were hogging the limelight, and the motley team of mutants struggled to attract a readership. Fast-forward four decades, and six X-Men films have grossed more than US$2 billion worldwide. Last week, the seventh in the franchise, X-Men: Days of Future Past, was released in Hong Kong. Clearly the concept of... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1517150/marked-x-real-life-x-men?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1517150/marked-x-real-life-x-men?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 May 2014 15:00:15 +0000 Travellers to this remote and rugged part of northwest China will find no trace of the Red Mountain Command Base on their maps. Guidebooks make no mention of its name. Past a deserted checkpoint policed only by a pair of two-humped Bactrian camels, the only clues to the extraordinary past of this one-street settlement are the fading slogans daubed on its run-down buildings. "Work Hard. Be Loyal to the Party. Be Loyal to the People," they declare. "Long Live Chairman Mao! Long Live The Communist... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1372783/theme?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1372783/theme?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Dec 2013 14:48:57 +0000 Despite the name, Paul Tough doesn't look like a Martin Amis character. He's a tall, groomed, optimistic New Yorker - and he thinks he may have discovered the key to our children's success. "I'm increasingly struck by the sense that lots of parents, educators and administrators feel that there is something missing in education - with low-income kids in particular - but really with kids from every background," says the author and journalist. Since his first book, Whatever It Takes (2008) - the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1150944/failure-can-help-students-succeed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1150944/failure-can-help-students-succeed?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000