Step forward Salone del Mobile, the design world’s Super Bowl, which sees brands and fans fill the studios and streets of Milan to transform it into a 10-day fantasyland of the most exquisite craftsmanship.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sacai’s founding. Yet Chitose Abe, 59, the designer and also the company’s CEO, says she doesn’t want to glance over her shoulder. “I want to keep looking forward.” What does it mean for her creative evolution to refine the core of her design

Marla Aaron thinks DIY shops are underrated. The award-winning jewellery designer and New York native’s love of latches, pulleys, gears and handles started young.

As charming beauty odes go in the upper echelons of the world of luxury, the three new Christian Dior Les Récoltes Majeures perfumes are surely some of the most poetic. A trio of the finest of fragrances, each represents a single flower and one of three notes that have always

Having been converted during the latter half of the 19th century from a three-storey house into a pawnbroker’s shop with a flat above it, 430 King’s Road in Chelsea played host to eclectic businesses during the ensuing decades.

There is a common misconception that the more you “know thyself”, in the words of the ancients, the less likely you are to change. Transformation, transition, evolution, whatever name you give it, has a way of unsettling people. Intransigence often masquerades as confidence. Certainty for wisdom. Change, on the other