A huge new wave of Chinese investment in overseas housing may be about to flow into the global market. In Hong Kong, Tom Phillips meets the salesmen who market British property to mainland China
New artistic director focuses on practicality and classic glamour at the Hôtel de Ville, a change perhaps inspired by falling profits
Cites summit moves to protect the world’s most trafficked wild product by placing all 300 species of the tree under trade restrictions
The raincoat maker caused a stir at London fashion week by using its shows to sell to customers immediately – not making them wait for designs to hit stores
Alessandro Michele, Milan fashion week’s golden boy, used a cryptic Nabokov quote to set the tone of an otherworldly show
September show breaks with arcane structures of fashion week, putting clothes online and on the catwalk simultaneously