Kelvin Okafor is all about human connection. An unmistakable talent, the artist’s aptitude for photorealist portraiture is uncanny, elevated by his gift for capturing the core essence of his subjects – one pencil stroke at a time.

On a rainy autumn morning in Florence, long before the doors open, an orderly queue of people has already formed on the Via della Scala. They’re waiting to enter the special world that is Santa Maria Novella: a perfumery and emporium, a piece of living history.

From joining the house in 1987, Griffiths has steered Max Mara to become one of the most beloved luxury fashion houses as its creative director.

I have been going deeply into a perfume that was never meant to be made public. It was a private scent that Edmond Roudnitska, one of the great perfumiers of the last century, made exclusively for his wife Thérèse. I know little about Roudnitska and his wife.

There’s a childlike curiosity threaded through the work of Ellen Hodakova Larsson. Since founding her namesake label Hodakova in 2021, the Swedish talent has viewed fashion through an experimental lens.

They do more than manicures. Sculpting snaking tendrils of chrome and swiping on simple, monochrome colours, these are miniature works of art. Meet the nail artists taking a refreshed approach to painting digits.