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René Caovilla’s Cleo shoes feature a snake strap design that coils around the ankle. Photo: Instagram/@renecaovilla

Fashion & Beauty

Serpent-inspired shoes, dresses and accessories for Year of the Snake

From shoes to dresses and watches, some of the best fashion and jewellery items to wear for the coming Year of the Snake.

25 Dec 2024 - 5:15PM

Niche perfumes that cost more than US$400? It just makes scents

25 Dec 2024 - 4:50AM

Are second-hand gifts the new trend? UK charity shops do a brisk trade

24 Dec 2024 - 5:15PM

Fashion & Beauty

Manila pageant school that’s like boot camp for world’s beauty queens

One of the world’s leading pageant schools, in the Philippines, puts willing contestants from around the world through a total body workout.

21 Dec 2024 - 1:15PMvideocam

Rodgil Flores (right) shows his students a pose. Photo: dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images

Health & Wellness

Do you have dry, chapped lips in winter? Use lip balm, with a proviso

In winter, the cold and wind can cause chapped lips. Lip balm can help, provided it contains the right substances. But you have options.

17 Dec 2024 - 4:15PM

Travel & Leisure

Passengers in period dress ride vintage New York subway cars

Subway carriages from the 1930s are back for a limited run in the Big Apple, and passengers have been dressing the part to journey on them.

21 Dec 2024 - 8:01AM

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What perfumes do Chinese like? New trends as industry surges

With the Chinese perfume market far outpacing the global one, experts reveal note trends in mainland China and Hong Kong, and in Singapore.

14 Dec 2024 - 4:39PM

Products of Maison 21G is displayed in the store at Hysan Place, Causeway Bay. 01NOV24 SCMP/ Fan Chen

Food & Drink

Food and Drinks

US$52 a litre? Why is donkey milk, Cleopatra’s beauty secret, so expensive?

In Albania, donkey farms are expanding as demand for donkey milk grows – used in face cream, and to make one of world’s priciest cheeses.

14 Dec 2024 - 5:15PM

Fashion & Beauty

Profile | Chanel artistic director a step up for Matthieu Blazy, a Raf Simons acolyte

Praised for modernising Bottega Veneta, Blazy will head a much bigger business at Chanel as he moves it on from the legacy of Karl Lagerfeld.

14 Dec 2024 - 2:15PM

Fashion & Beauty

New Chanel artistic director named, John Galliano out at Martin Margiela

Matthieu Blazy, the former Bottega Veneta creative boss, ‘embodies a new generation with sincere humility’, says Chanel’s fashion president.

14 Dec 2024 - 2:19PMvideocam

From left: John Galliano, Matthieu Blazy and Louise Trotter. Blazy is to work at Chanel, Trotter will take his place at Bottega Veneta, and Galliano has quit Martin Margiela. Photos: AFP, Getty Images

Companies

Banking & finance

China’s Urban Revivo takes global fashion push to Bangkok, New York, London

Parent FMG is also reportedly planning a more than US$100 million initial public offering in Hong Kong.

13 Dec 2024 - 9:36AM

Urban Revivo’s largest store in Southeast Asia in the One Bangkok complex, pictured on December 12, 2024. Photo: Yuke Xie

Arts & Culture

Books and literature

China’s ‘most famous woman’ on a career spent introducing it to the world

Her TV shows gave US viewers tastes of Asia and brought the world to Chinese homes. Yue-Sai Kan talks bridging the gap between East and West.

12 Dec 2024 - 6:15PM

Fashion & Beauty

How do I build a capsule wardrobe? 5 steps to a minimalist collection

A curated collection of 30 to 40 items of clothing is all you need for a capsule wardrobe that will take the hassle out of your mornings.

8 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM

Fashion & Beauty

He dresses popes, priests, new cardinals and has seen their tastes change

In Rome, Raniero Mancinelli has sewn robes for popes and priests, including new cardinals, for 62 years. He’s seen clerical fashion evolve.

9 Dec 2024 - 6:36PM

One of the last ecclesiastical tailors in Rome, Raniero Mancinelli has made cassocks, collars and robes for generations of clergymen, including three popes and some of the new cardinals Pope Francis will appoint on December 7, 2024. Photo: AFP

Fashion & Beauty

This Korean grandma is 77 and has just launched her own beauty brand

‘Do you know how young and beautiful you are right now?’ Reii Reii founder Park Mak-rye on her beauty brand, learning to love herself.

6 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM

Park Mak-rye, 77, a popular YouTuber with 1.16 million subscribers, is launching a beauty brand under her own name. Photo: Instagram/korea_grandma

Fashion & Beauty

It was ‘hard to buy clothing’ in China in her size, so she made her own

Amanda Yao talks openly on Chinese social media about weighing 100 kilograms – and sells fashionable, high-end clothing for plus-size people.

5 Dec 2024 - 8:05AM

Fashion & Beauty

Beauty filters also make us look more intelligent, study finds

Software-modified faces were viewed more favourably than untouched ones in a Spanish study. This may not be a good thing, psychologist says.

3 Dec 2024 - 4:59AM

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When Notre Dame burned, so did hope for designer. Then he received a call

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has dressed pop stars including Rihanna, and a pope. Now he’s designed priestly robes for Notre Dame’s reopening.

27 Nov 2024 - 4:15PM

French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac with some of the surprisingly minimalist priestly robes he has designed for the reopening of Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral. Photo: AFP

Arts & Culture

Street photographers thrive in this African city’s centre

Street photographers make a living snapping the fashionably dressed, while dancers create videos for social media in Kenyan capital’s centre.

26 Nov 2024 - 4:15PM

Fashion & Beauty

Chinese culture

How Chinese haute couture is taking on the fashion world

Chinese high-fashion designers have dressed everyone from Rihanna to royals in recent years and their presence is growing on global catwalks.

21 Nov 2024 - 1:00PMvideocam

Fashion & Beauty

Fashion Fest aims to put Hong Kong on haute couture design map

The government-sponsored event is intended to help make Hong Kong a high-fashion hub, but industry insiders say much more needs to be done.

19 Nov 2024 - 4:43PM

A model walks the runway at the Chanel Cruise 2024/25 show in Hong Kong, held in November 2024, a month that will also see the launch of the first Hong Kong Fashion Fest. Photo: Reuters

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Reflections | Laminated brow trend has got nothing on eyebrow styles of ancient China

Wee Kek Koon

17 Mar 2024 - 8:15AM

Then & Now | Avoid the Pooh: when funny T-shirts and slogans are no longer amusing

Jason Wordie

16 Mar 2024 - 3:16PM

Language Matters | Are we reading too much into Taylor Swift’s graphic tees? Maybe, maybe not

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14 Mar 2024 - 7:07PM

Reflections | How perfume came to China from ancient Persia, then the know-how to make it

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28 Jan 2024 - 8:15AM

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