Business / Luxury
MIPIM and Cruise Shipping
Monocle hops from the property fair in Cannes to the cruise show in Miami.
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Business / Luxury
Monocolumn
Thursday 19 July
The sun’s shining on brand Brazil
The BRICs are often spoken of in one breath, as if they’re exactly that – a solid terracotta brick, a single homogenous building block.
Business / Luxury
Monocolumn
Tuesday 28 June
Fishy business in the UAE
Few states do superlatives quite like the Emirates. Highest this, biggest that. There was even a press release doing the rounds for a while about the world’s tallest pyramid of Airwick air fresheners being assembled in a…
Affairs / Luxury
Monocolumn
Monday 23 November
Poland’s shot at luxury
Vodka has been produced in Poland for more than 1,000 years but historic Polish brands have failed to break into the global market.
Design / Luxury
Sock appeal
From Lufthansa cabin crew to men about town, more people than ever are keeping their toes warm with Falke’s socks and tights. In the first of a series on fashion workhorses we look at the German-based hosier, which in 2006…
Business / Luxury
Monocolumn
Sunday 15 July
Quality not quantity
Luxury is a good thing. There, I’ve said it. I know in these straightened times it gets a bad rap – who, people ask, really needs a sleek high-end car, a bag made by artisans in an Italian village or champagne at their…
Edits / Luxury
Saint Charles
The popularity of ‘natural’ cosmetics and remedies has burgeoned, and Austria is one of Europe’s top markets. In Vienna a group of friends with a passion for botany and herbal medicine are championing the use of local…
Design / Luxury
Luxurious relaunch
The German region of Saxony has shaken off the shackles of communist rule to establish itself as a manufacturing centre for top-of-the-range, quality brands – from cars to clocks to clothing. But can Dresden become as…
Business / Luxury
Maine Event
Portland’s annual Maine Boatbuilders Show attracts an unusual mix of salty dogs, day-tripping families and wealthy customers, who fly in on their private jets to inspect the sloops, schooners, kayaks, ketches and yawls –…
Affairs / Luxury
Monocolumn
Tuesday 20 November
African style – and substance?
“The promise of Africa, the power of the Mediterranean.” That was the title of this year’s International Herald Tribune Luxury conference in Rome. If there was ever a time for the luxury industry to try to negotiate its…
Culture / Luxury
Monocolumn
Monday 6 June
Handbags at dawn of the ‘new’ China
Where better to show off the face of the “new” China than near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square? As the country gears up to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of China’s Communist Party on 1 July, Louis Vuitton is…
Business / Luxury
Up for sail
No sailing royals, an antipathy to ostentation and an unwillingness to take holidays has left Japan’s recreational boat market in the doldrums for years. But the ‘nation of rice farmers’ is finally finding its sea legs:…
Edits / Luxury
Do not disturb
One year on and we’ve raided enough hotel minibars to sink a Stena Liner. We think it’s time for the hospitality industry to take stock on the stock take.
Business / Luxury
Ancestral spirits
It’s used by Chinese businessmen to toast every new deal but until now the bai jiu market has been a home concern – perhaps because it smells like a mix of unwashed toes, petrol and goats’ cheese and has a flavour to match…
Edits / Luxury
Expo 64: Taxi!
Hail a cab from a Tokyo taxi firm whose white-gloved drivers are drilled everyday in what to say to customers, how to clean their cars and how to take real pride in their job.
Business / Retail
Monocolumn
Thursday 25 November
The Chinese quest for luxury brands
It’s no secret that wealthy Chinese are addicted to luxury brand shopping.
Design / Graphic Design
Monocolumn
Thursday 15 March
Can luxury and Modernism mix?
About one year ago we moved office, from north to south Marylebone, and by a distance of under one mile.
Business / Emerging Markets
Monocolumn
Wednesday 6 June
Not everything can be luxury
Marrakech is a city of staggering diversity – it has the crudely commercial in abundance but it also harbours hidden gems of riads and artisan workshops.
Edits / Travel
Travel Top 50, 08/09
For our second annual Travel 50 survey, we covered more ground than last year sampling more properties, flat-beds, new terminals, railway stations, lobby bars, inflight snacks and sun loungers. We’ve also drawn up a list…
Business / Travel
Genoa Boat Show 2009
The global downturn has seen the luxury yacht business run into rough seas. Monocle's Ivan Carvalho visits this year's Genoa Boat Show to learn how makers of pleasure craft are making evasive manoeuvres by pitching pro…