Style Outside Photographer Simbarashe Cha documents transitional style in the Japanese capital for The New York Times. Share full article Nov. 17, 2023, 10:30 a.m. ET card:1 of 10 Style Outside Simbarashe Cha Reporting from Japan Tokyo was unseasonably warm in early November, making for an eclectic mishmash of outfits. Clothes with oversized silhouettes, like…
It’s mid-November and you’re starting to think that you should be starting to think about your holiday shopping list. But the brands and the retailers behind the colorfully packaged sets of beauty products that are mainstays of seasonal shopping are way ahead of you. “We kind of joke that we’re never not talking about Christmas,”…
A gift without wrapping is like a cake without frosting — and where’s the fun in that? Yet the waste associated with hard-to-recycle wrapping paper means that, for many people, only reusable materials will do. You don’t need to tell that to the Japanese. Centuries ago, they elevated the practice of wrapping gifts using fabric,…
On a recent fall afternoon in her sunny studio in London’s Belgravia neighborhood, the luxury board game artist and designer Alexandra Llewellyn lifted the polished eucalyptus wood tray that serves as a lid to one of her latest backgammon sets. Printed on the calf leather playing board inside was a tongue-in-cheek winter scene: a polar…
Watch brands and collectors are both enjoying a bit of matchy-matchy action right now as his-and-her looks in timepieces are turning up everywhere. Piaget plans to celebrate the coming Chinese New Year with a special collection of eight high jewelry and métiers d’art watches — four masculine and four feminine — scheduled to be released…
Does your phone really need a strap? Or perhaps you do — at least that is what some of the reviews on the String Ting website say. “Makes me happy every time I see it,” one buyer wrote, of the Heavenly Sky, a phone strap featuring blue beads mixed with miniature puffy white clouds. And:…
When Muchi Gubwe was a fledgling hotel concierge in Cape Town, he would often refer to his seasoned colleagues as “moving encyclopedias.” “Forget Google,” Mr. Gubwe, now the head concierge at the Mount Nelson, a Belmond hotel in the city’s Gardens neighborhood, said on a video call last month. “These are the people you need…
Under a set of railway arches in the Haggerston neighborhood of East London, a pack of clay dogs was ready to be brought to life. A Boston terrier and a cockapoo were among the pack, the work of the ceramist Alice Johnson, who makes bespoke sculptures of people’s beloved animals through her business, Pottery Pets.…
There is a low buzz of banter and machinery in the workshop of George Horn Ltd., a family-run glove-making business in a converted woolen mill in the Stoneybatter area of central Dublin. A seamstress bends her head down in concentration over a whirring vintage Singer piqué machine, giving a glove its distinctive but delicate exterior…
Hatchards, the historic bow-front bookshop on London’s Piccadilly, wants to bring “back under people’s noses books that they should, they should read,” said Francis Cleverdon, the shop’s general manager. So, “what we are doing is we are republishing things, books that we love,” he said during a recent interview in an upstairs office. On the…