Hints and tips:
...Jana Porter, a marketing executive for an non-governmental organisation, woke up on March 3 to find there was no running water in her home in a northern Johannesburg suburb....
...Sonia Petroff gold-plated metal, amber and tiger’s eye Earth earrings, £350 Alaïa wool coat, £4,400 Atlein viscose turtleneck, $415, modaoperandi.com Levi’s denim jeans, £109.99, zalando.co.uk Monica...
...Ten per cent of sales will go to fashion retailer Mr Porter’s Health In Mind Fund, an initiative dedicated to helping young men lead happier and healthier lives....
...The influential retailer Lane Crawford dropped the label, and Net-a-Porter removed its wares from its Chinese website....
...Monica Vinader launched leather trinket boxes, which can be personalised with initials, a name or emojis, in October. Sales in the first six weeks outperformed the company’s forecast by 350 per cent....
...The Design Museum in London staged a 2014 exhibition “Women Fashion Power”, exploring how female figures, from the musician Lady Gaga, to Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet, to Dame Vivienne Westwood,...
...“We could offer them tall, thin houses with 100 stairs from top to bottom, or we could offer them a dusty old mansion block with a drunk porter in the daytime sitting at the door....
...It inched up to $80m in $1m and then $500,000 increments until the bidder speaking to Mr Porter prevailed at $80m....
...So says Bogotá-based Mónica Holguín, creative director of the fashion label Pepa Pombo....
...Christophe Robin shampoo, £28 for 250ml; conditioner, £32 for 250ml; www.net-a-porter.com. Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate, £36 for 50ml; www.kiehls.co.uk....
...“The Bardo attack was terrible, but not every tourist that goes to Tunisia goes to the Bardo Museum,” said Monica Marks, a visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations based in Tunis....
...Stella McCartney’s houndstooth blanket coat may have wide sleeves, but it sits under the “cape” section of Net-a-Porter and is very drapey....
...It features articles by real fashion journalists, such as Monica Corcoran Harel, the magazine’s editor-in-chief and a contributor to Elle, Marie Claire and InStyle; Cameron Silver, founder of Decades, the...
...I was a night-porter in a seedy hotel in Hamburg. I was 21. I studied in Hamburg and then moved to Düsseldorf....
...Similarly, Monica Bhaskar, 34, a graduate programme manager at Credit Suisse, says dresses are “smart, easy and stylish; the only co-ordination you need to think about are accessories”....
...“With the return to old-world workmanship and classic styles with modern twists came a new fascination with men’s-style footwear for women,” says Monica Blanch Wells of Hong Kong-based Pedder Group, the...
...In the Kitchen, by Monica Ali, Black Swan RRP£7.99, 553 pages Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at London’s fading Imperial Hotel, has a lot on his plate....
...It recently held a cruise extravaganza in St Tropez, following shows in Santa Monica and Miami....
...In the Kitchen By Monica Ali Doubleday £17.99, 431 pages FT Bookshop price: £14.39 Gabe Lightfoot is sexist, mentally unstable and emotionally illiterate....
...to £830 at Harrods. www.valextra.it Totes Senz umbrella Created by Dutch design students, this umbrella is built to withstand winds of 75 miles an hour.You’ll never need another. £40. www.firebox.com Monica...
...They are hoping to make it the vintage equivalent of Net-a-porter.com, the leading luxury fashion site....
International Edition