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How Chinese wedding dresses are made and their meaning on the big day
Whether cheongsam or qun kua, here is what the colours and embroidery mean on Chinese wedding dresses and why some can take a year to make.
12 Nov 2024 - 4:54PM
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How Kojima, Japan, made a name for top-quality denim
6 Oct 2024 - 4:15AM
How did Dyson become one of the top home beauty brands?
2 Nov 2024 - 6:15PM
Health & Wellness
How to slow skin ageing? Don’t smoke, says expert. Plus other tips
Lines write the story of your life on your face, starting from about the age of 25. But there are steps you can take to limit their spread.
13 Oct 2024 - 5:15PM
With a healthy lifestyle, some octogenarians still have very good skin, while others already have deep wrinkles. Photo: Shutterstock
Fashion & Beauty
Uniqlo’s new Tokyo global flagship store aims to be No 1 for sales
New Uniqlo store in Shinjuku is aimed partly at foreign tourists but will also stock items otherwise sold only in Europe and the US.
29 Oct 2024 - 5:32PM
Fashion & Beauty
Corsets made from airbags? Fashion designers upcycle car parts
Resourceful fashion designers make clothes and accessories using everything from wheels to seat belts, as carmakers focus on material reuse.
15 Oct 2024 - 5:09AM
Arts & Culture
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, November 8-10
Immerse yourself in Indian arts, culture and heritage, try on a pair of new Nike kicks and eat and drink at a great wine bar before it shuts.
8 Nov 2024 - 5:11PM
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Fashion & Beauty
5 can’t-miss shopping opportunities in Hong Kong this weekend
Mall puts on fun for its soft opening, a much anticipated sneaker collaboration hits shelves and a Hong Kong jewellery brand has a new line.
8 Nov 2024 - 11:15AM
The Nike x Wu-Tang Clan Dunk, out November 9, is just one of the exciting shopping opportunities in Hong Kong this weekend, along with the soft-opening of a huge mall in Wan Chai, and Clinique’s new line of skincare products in partnership with Hello Kitty. Photo: Nike
Fashion & Beauty
Americans suing for right to buy Hermès Birkin bags file new claims
Plaintiffs in antitrust case over Hermès limiting ability to buy coveted bags to customers who purchase other items amend their complaint.
15 Oct 2024 - 10:15AM
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Travel & Leisure
How do you revive in-store shopping? Look to TX Huaihai in Shanghai
Former department store reopens as a showcase for hip fashion e-commerce businesses, with nightclubs, restaurants, and exhibition spaces.
6 Oct 2024 - 4:35PM
Entertainment
Drug lord El Chapo’s lawyer Mariel Colon is now a singer. Yes, really
Colon is using her notoriety and connection to the drug trafficking world to launch a music career. She denies she is glorifying crime.
5 Oct 2024 - 5:15PM
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Health & Wellness
This 54-year-old has no secrets to ageing well, beyond self-love
After years of being self-conscious, it clicked: ‘This is my body, I want to respect it,’ says Ting Ma, who posts about ageing and self-love.
5 Oct 2024 - 7:56AM
After years of being self-conscious, it clicked: “This is my body, I want to respect it,” says Ting Ma, 54, a Chinese-American social media influencer who posts about ageing, health and self-love on social media. Photo: courtesy of Ting Ma
Fashion & Beauty
5 ways to shop with a conscience in Hong Kong this weekend, November 1-3
Look no further for ethical shopping options – here are five ways to consciously consume in Hong Kong, from sneakers to jewellery.
1 Nov 2024 - 11:37AM
Health & Wellness
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, November 1-3
Take your dog for some yoga or a tarot-card reading, tuck into Sichuan clay pot rice, or catch a movie this weekend in Hong Kong.
1 Nov 2024 - 3:51PM
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Fashion & Beauty
5 must-shop events in Hong Kong and online this weekend, October 25-27
Shop Tommy Hilfiger as Blackpink’s Jisoo joins the brand, check out Human Made’s first Hong Kong store and empower girls with Shanghai Tang.
25 Oct 2024 - 12:15PM
Food & Drink
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, October 25-27
Try your hand at cocktail making, immerse yourself in jazz music, learn about endurance running and more this weekend.
25 Oct 2024 - 3:15PM
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Herbie Hancock returns to Hong Kong this weekend as part of the Freespace Jazz Fest 2024 in the West Kowloon Cultural District, one of our picks for things to do and see this weekend. Photo: Getty Images
Arts & Culture
Inuit facial tattoos return as Greenland’s women go back to their roots
Inuit facial tattoos are becoming more popular among Greenlandic women in what many see as a reappropriation of their culture and heritage.
26 Sep 2024 - 4:15AM
Entertainment
5 of the best things to do this weekend in Hong Kong, October 18-20
From the Hong Kong Ballet to the Asian Film Festival and World Shochu and Awamori Festival, our pick of the best things to do this weekend.
18 Oct 2024 - 4:09PM
Fashion & Beauty
5 can’t-miss shopping opportunities in Hong Kong this weekend, Oct 18-21
Get your hands on a Crocs collaboration collection before it sells out, personalised sneakers and comfy Skims menswear this weekend.
18 Oct 2024 - 1:16PM
Fashion & Beauty
The ‘shame’ of luxury goods made in Italy on the back of suffering
LVMH’s Dior and Giorgio Armani are among luxury brands exposed over sweatshop-like conditions for migrant workers in Italian workshops.
21 Sep 2024 - 8:07AM
A guest carries a Dior Saddle bag at the Dior spring/summer 2019 show in Paris, France.
Fashion & Beauty
Designs of the times – 3 new-generation Hong Kong tattoo parlours
Tattoos in Hong Kong were once the province of triads and Western sailors. Today skin art is a form of artistic expression and widely seen. We talk to some of the artists creating it.
17 Sep 2024 - 7:30AM
Health & Wellness
Journaling helps release negative thoughts and emotions. Simone Biles knows
Simone Biles keeps a ‘worry journal’, Gigi Hadid a ‘bad journal’, to ease anxiety. Journaling can help put life’s challenges in perspective.
20 Sep 2024 - 10:33AM
Arts & Culture
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, October 11-13
Try Korean hanwoo beef at a new noodle restaurant, see an anime master’s latest film, pamper your pet or do some outdoor yoga this weekend.
11 Oct 2024 - 3:21PM
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OPINION
Lisa Lim
Language Matters
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Where did jeans and denim come from? The clues are in the names
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Lisa Lim
Language Matters
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Purple’s roots, from sea snails to Caesar to its association with grandeur
30 Mar 2024 - 2:15PM
Wee Kek Koon
Reflections
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Laminated brow trend has got nothing on eyebrow styles of ancient China
17 Mar 2024 - 8:15AM
Jason Wordie
Then & Now
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Avoid the Pooh: when funny T-shirts and slogans are no longer amusing
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Language Matters
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Are we reading too much into Taylor Swift’s graphic tees? Maybe, maybe not
14 Mar 2024 - 7:07PM
Wee Kek Koon
Reflections
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How perfume came to China from ancient Persia, then the know-how to make it
28 Jan 2024 - 8:15AM
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