London Fashion Week: Osman
Promising to evoke the dusty grandeur of Indian palaces, echoing maharajas and maharanis, the glossy white runway of Bloomsbury Ballroom was set for some East-West fusion. The result was surprisingly light and ...
Lacoste SS14
It was all about the hard lines of the tennis court for Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s SS14 Lacoste collection – it began with the contrast piping that navigated its way over the block colours, this gradually got b...
Finest China
Forged by the flames of Chinese kilns, porcelain (also called “china ”, “fine china” or “chinaware”), has been collected and revered for centuries. Translucent when held up to the light, strong and emitting a r...
Life is beautiful
Frankly speaking, interviewing someone famous is always a challenge. It is hard to get something new, deep or meaningful when they have had so many experiences but too little time, and perhaps little inclin...
We shall meld
Evolving from the Slow Food movement, which originated in Italy in the 1980s when a group of people resisted the opening of a McDonald’s in a small town, the phrase “Slow Life” describes a way of living that ...
Rethinking China
“Study the past if you would define the future”
– Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
Modern China adores education. Learning for Chinese students constitutes an immemorial praxis of the highest cultural value. ...
(Extra)ordinary Yung Ho Chang
According to Philip Tinari, a leading curator of art and architecture in China, Yung Ho Chang can be referred to as “a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture“. This epithet refers to the historical sign...
In fine feather
For birds, feathers serve three main functions, to fly, keep warm and to attract their partners. But for Kate MccGwire they serve a very different function – art. Since her graduation from the Royal College o...
The new Noah’s Ark
Since the dawn of civilisation, capturing animals has been a common practice. At first, human beings were motivated by pure basic instinct – the need to survive – seeking food and protection. Subsequently c...
The Art of Writing
Long before characters were created, the ancient Chinese made different knots on ropes in order to record information. But ropes might easily be burnt and information lost, and as life gradually became more...
Roja Dove’s new fragrance Diaghilev is a tribute to the world of the Ballet Russes
WHEN it comes to the Chypre fragrances of the “roaring twenties,” one may think of lavish costume parities, Parisian chorus girls and prima ballerinas lavishly spritzing themselves before dashing onstag...