I’m not with the brand: why bag designers are losing the logo
It bags were once all about shouty branding. No longer. New research suggests that a no logo approach now rules
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Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg
Built from scratch by the tsars, imperial St Petersburg was at the epicentre of the Russian Revolution. Harriet Green scours its streets for Lenin’s legacy
Flotsam and fashion: recycler of ‘ghost’ fishing nets makes marine litter trendy
Last year a company set up by an Italian former scuba recycled more than 5,000 tons of discarded nets into nylon for apparel brands including Speedo
Men’s fashion: five key trends
From the perpetual student to the hippy who won’t grow up, this season’s trends nod to the seven ages of man
Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It’s a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’
As his much-anticipated second movie, Nocturnal Animals, is released, the designer turned film director talks about dress code, family and eccentricity