Tag: Life and style
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Small business in the spotlight … Katie Leamon luxury cards & stationery
Since launching in 2011, the business has gone from handprinting cards on the kitchen table to being stocked all over the world
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Met’s China: Through the Looking Glass show presents a fantasy of the far east
Ahead of its annual gala, the Met’s Costume Institute risks accusations of cultural appropriation to explore how ideas of China have inspired fashion, art and film
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My quest to find the great American perfume
From France to Dubai, scent is viewed as high art – but not in America. What is it about our relationship to smell that puts us so far behind in this field?
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Fossil fuels are the new tobacco when it comes to health risk
Letters: We call on the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to divest from the fossil fuel industry and show the leadership we, as future health professionals, need to bring about a healthier economy
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Margiela documentary: The Artist is Absent – what do we learn about the Greta Garbo of fashion?
He has never been photographed, is very tall and nobody know what he looks like. But that’s pretty much all we know about the fashion designer Margiela. So how on earth did they make a film about him?
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How we made the Brompton folding bike
Andrew Ritchie, inventor: ‘I set out to make a magic carpet you can keep in your pocket. It’s been a perilous journey’