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Why Trump is attacking China’s dominance in humble graphite

Hongkonger suffers knife wounds in bar fight involving 10 people

King Charles to host Trump in second UK state visit later this year

Why some royals wore white to the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV, from Queens Letizia to Sofía – but what unconventional shade did Queen Elizabeth wear to meet Pope Francis?

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Spring 2022 fashion issue: why Queen Elizabeth is the ultimate style icon and a new wave of unexpected influencers

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In HBO’s Euphoria, fashion and make-up communicate who its Gen Z characters are and what they want

Alexa Demie as Maddy and Sydney Sweeney as Cassie in season 2 of Euphoria. The show’s looks have drawn as much admiration as its storyline about Gen Zers growing up together. Photo: Courtesy of HBO Go

Zendaya as Rue and Hunter Schafer as Jules in season 2 of Euphoria. Photo: courtesy of HBO Go

Jules (Hunter Schafer, left) and Rue (Zendaya) in season 1 of Euphoria. Photo: courtesy of HBO Go

Barbie Ferreira as Kat in season 2 of Euphoria. Photo: courtesy of HBO Go

Sydney Sweeney as Cassie in season 2 of Euphoria. Photo: courtesy of HBO Go

Alexa Demie as Maddy in season 2 of Euphoria. Photo: courtesy of HBO Go

Viewers of Euphoria on HBO have been drawn equally to the show’s storyline and its Gen Z characters’ make-up and wardrobe choices.


Renovation: how an old factory became a bright, breezy design workspace with a glorious courtyard garden

Inside the Beavaldes atelier in Manila, the Philippines. The renovation project saw a boxy old juice factory become a calming peaceful space for designers to work, create and experiment in. Photo: Jinggo Montenejo

Photo: Jinggo Montenejo

Bea (with bob) and Marga Valdes. Photo: Studio Yatco

When Filipino designer Bea Valdes needed a new home for her Manila atelier, her renovator mother found the ideal blank canvas for a calming, peaceful space with a glorious courtyard garden.


How colours in Chinese culture can still strike a nerve despite evolving traditions

Decorations in colours including white and blue at Sydney’s Chinatown during this year’s Lunar New Year celebrations. Photo: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Sydney’s Chinatown during this year’s Lunar New Year celebrations. Photo: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Sydney’s Chinatown community criticised the blue and white decorations used for Lunar New Year, despite the associations of the colours in Chinese culture long evolving past death and mourning.


Emily in Paris, And Just Like That stars show fashion is timeless as brands and designers embrace age and grey hair

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie Grateau in Emily in Paris. Photo: Netflix

The breakout star of TV series Emily in Paris is Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, a 58-year-old actress - proof that fashion is embracing older women. Photo: Netflix

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu at the Ami Fall/Winter 2022/2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week. Photo: Getty Images

 And Just Like That has returned the Sex and the City characters to navigating life, but this time in their 50s.

Jerry Hall in Saint Laurent’s spring/summer 2022 campaign.

Paulina Porizkova in a campaign for Australian brand Camilla and Marc.

Gillian Anderson in a Loewe campaign.

Marie Sophie Wilson at the Valentino spring/summer 2022 couture show.

Montreal-based fifty-something fashion influencer Grece Ghanem has starred in a campaign for Raey.

A Raey look available on Matchesfashion.

Fashion seems to be making a shift to acknowledging that style is ageless – forget 20-something models, the women in our favourite TV shows and on the covers of Vogue are getting older and greyer.


Luxury fashion has no business issuing NFTs – LVMH’s Bernard Arnault is right

A Dolce & Gabbana virtual look, part of the brand’s NFT collection. Some luxury brands have embraced non-fungible tokens, but are they trading away the exclusivity on which their real-world success is built?

A Dolce & Gabbana virtual look, part of the brand’s NFT collection.

A Balmain virtual look, part of the brand’s NFT collection. Photo: Balmain

Exclusivity is the rock upon which luxury brands’ success in the real world has been built, yet in the metaverse creation is infinite. Don’t brands that issue NFTs risk losing their mystique and allure?


Stitching is like drawing for Reiko Sudo, creative force of NUNO Japanese textiles, whose innovations she celebrates in a new book

Stag Horn from NUNO. Photo: Nuno

Stag Horn, developed by NUNO, whose visionary products are the focus of a new book co-written by its lead textile designer, Reiko Sudo. Photo: NUNO

Reiko Sudo. Photo: NUNO

Kinugasa Mushroom, a fabric pattern NUNO developed in 2006. Photo: NUNO

Lentils, a NUNO fabric pattern from 2008. Photo: NUNO

The cover of Sudo and Naomi Pollock’s book.

Jellyfish, a fabric pattern from NUNO. Photo: NUNO

Reiko Sudo’s description of what characterises a fabric from Japanese textile innovator NUNO could apply to her own journey – her family used to say she did the things her seamstress grandmother couldn’t do in her life.


From Kate Middleton favourite Temperley to country house hotels, a gentler English design ethos grows outside London

A look from British outerwear brand Barbour’s collaboration with Alexa Chung

A look from British outerwear brand Barbour’s collaboration with Alexa Chung.

The Newt Hotel in Somerset, the UK.

A look from Temperley London’s autumn 2022 collection. The brand, a favourite of Kate Middleton and actresses Keira Knightley and Claire Foy, is now headquartered in a small town in southwest England. 

A look from Temperley London’s autumn 2022 collection.

A jacket from Seasalt Cornwall.

A dining area at the St Mawes Hotel in Cornwall

 A Yorkshire wool cardigan from British brand Palava.

A cardigan from Palava.

From Kate Middleton favourite Temperley to Alexa Chung’s Barbour makeover and innovative rural hotels, a slower, gentler English design ethos has taken root outside London.


Sportswear, streetwear, tailoring: in Wardrobe.NYC, you get it all, say label’s founders – and Rihanna’s a fan

Christine Centenera, seen here at Paris Fashion Week in 2021, is one of the founders of Wardrobe.NYC, created to simplify the way people get dressed without forsaking style or quality. Photo: Getty Images

A look from Wardrobe.NYC’s Utility collection.

A look from Wardrobe.NYC’s permanent collection.

Wardrobe.NYC founders Christine Centenera and Josh Goot.

A look from Wardrobe.NYC’s collaboration with Carhartt WIP.

The founders of Wardrobe.NYC, established in 2017, explain how they set out to simplify the way people get dressed without forsaking style or quality.


Wear diamonds every day, says Hong Kong jewellery brand founder, and shop them sustainably by buying lab-grown stones

Jewellery from 5 + 2 | Weekdays and Weekends.

Nicholas Chow, one of the founders of sustainable jewellery brand 5 + 2 | Weekdays and Weekends, wants people to wear diamonds any time of the day or night. Photo: Edmond So

Emily Chow and Nicholas Chow, founders of 5 + 2 | Weekdays and Weekends. Photo: Edmond So

The founders of Hong Kong sustainable jewellery brand 5 + 2 | Weekdays and Weekends want people to wear its lab-grown diamonds and other gems any time of the day or night.


Anna Sui, fashion designer, on being inspired by Madonna, 1980s New York and hanging out with Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista

Fashion designer Anna Sui says meeting Madonna wearing one of her dresses gave her the confidence to put on her first solo fashion show. Photo: Miguel Flores-Vianna

Anna Sui as a flower girl at a family wedding. Photo: Fred Fang

Anna Sui with her parents. Photo: Eddy Sui

Fashion photographer Steven Meisel (left) and Anna Sui in the mid -1990s in New York. Photo: Getty Images

Naomi Campbell walking at Anna Sui’s first show in 1991.

A spring/summer 2022 look by Anna Sui. 

Anna Sui signing T-shirts on a trip to Japan.

The interior of Anna Sui’s store in SoHo, NYC.

The American designer tells Vincenzo La Torre about getting her start in fashion and how pop star Madonna gave her the confidence to go it alone.


Queen Elizabeth in pink, green, yellow: her fashion evolution and 21st century embrace of bold colours

Queen Elizabeth at an engagement in 1999 (above, left) and several years later. The British monarch’s preference for bold colours grew stronger as she got older.

Queen Elizabeth in pink in Salisbury on October 15, 2020. Photo: Getty Images

Queen Elizabeth after her coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1953. Photo: Getty Images

Queen Elizabeth attends the Royal Variety Performance in 1999 in Birmingham, England. Photo: Getty Images

Queen Elizabeth and Kate Middleton. Her Majesty’s clothes were always about so much more than fashion and personal taste. Photo: @theroyalfamily/Instagram

Queen Elizabeth during the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle in 2018. Photo: Getty Images

Queen Elizabeth had an umbrella to match every outfit. Photo: @fultonumbrellas/Instagram

Queen Elizabeth in red. Photo: @queenelizabethiiuk/Instagram

Queen Elizabeth with US President Richard Nixon in 1969. Photo: Getty Images

Queen Elizabeth’s outfit for the Trooping the Colour parade during her 90th birthday caught the public’s imagination. Photo: Getty Images

Queen Elizabeth favoured heavy tweeds, dark green jackets and sturdy outdoor boots when at Balmoral or Sandringham. Photo: Getty Images

Pastel pinks, bright greens and happy yellows – Queen Elizabeth’s fashion choices evolved constantly; her embrace of bold colours this century has been especially striking.


From Picasso to Proust, celebration of Yves Saint Laurent at six Paris museums highlights art and literature’s influence on his fashion

Yves Saint Laurent’s Robe Hommage à Piet Mondrian on show at the 
Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris. 

A 1971 portrait of Yves Saint Laurent by Jeanloup Sieff. A collaborative project involving six Paris museums is marking 60 years since the first catwalk show in 1962 of Saint Laurent’s eponymous fashion house.

A look by Yves Saint Laurent inspired by the art of Pierre Bonnard.

A look from Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 collection that paid homage to painter Piet Mondrian.

The Galerie d’Apollon at the Louvre (above) is hosting a show highlighting Saint Laurent’s love of gold and the decorative arts. 

A gold-embroidered organza piece from a 1990 collection by Yves Saint Laurent.

The French designer was strongly influenced by art and literature throughout a fashion career that began 60 years ago, a fact celebrated in an unprecedented collaboration by some of the leading museums in Paris.


Face masks’ wide public use began with Spanish flu, and soon embroidered ones became popular

Barbershop staff wear face masks for protection during the Spanish flu oubtreak that swept the world between 1918 and 1921. Photo: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images

A street sweeper wears a cloth face mask while working during the 1918 influenza pandemic in New York. Photo: Gado/Getty Images

A Hong Kong kindergarten teacher checks a child’s mask during the Sars outbreak in 2003. Photo: SCMP/Robert Ng

Masked pedestrians cross a road in Hong Kong during the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Bloomberg

Face masks – the reusable, patterned cloth kind – were in wide use 100 years ago amid the Spanish flu epidemic, and in hygiene-conscious Japan were afterwards worn by those with respiratory infections.


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