A 40-year-old independent house tucked away in a quiet lane in T Nagar is The Postbox’s new home. The accessories brand, which specialises in bags, wallets, and other carrying goods, made Chennai its base nearly a decade ago, and for CEO and creative director Nikhil Joseph, this first experience store has been a long time…
The Volvo EX90 is a large SUV, but it does not make a great deal of fuss about its size. Instead, it relies on the restrained design language that has become a Volvo signature, combining clean Scandinavian lines with the visual solidity you expect from a luxury SUV. It is unmistakably a Volvo, yet the…
Scroll back through your camera roll from the last three years, and a pattern emerges: faces evenly lit, skies intact, shadows gently raised and highlights pulled down. Every photograph has arrived, by slightly different routes, at the same image, competent, clean and looking rather more assembled than taken. The Pixel 11, launched in India this…
A mythical brass city hangs upside down, an ivory shola tree blooms indoors, while the Mumbai skyline becomes a gilded promenade, while an archive unfolds through the geometry of Indian stepwells. This is Mubarak Baug, Mumbai-based designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla’s new 20,000-square-foot Mumbai flagship — a maximalist dream that marks four decades of…
Reality star and business mogul Kim Kardashian has spent much of her career being told that her body was the product. With Skims, she figured out how to make the product the business. Founded with Jens Grede in 2019, Skims began with shapewear and underwear and has since expanded into loungewear, menswear, swim and activewear….
A practical notchback design gives the Skoda Superb an edge over conventional sedans. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement There is something immediately reassuring about the new Superb. It is unmistakably a Skoda, yet its design has a premium quality that makes it look more expensive than the badge might suggest. The fourth-generation car has a…
Yuki Igarashi | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A couple of years ago, when Osman Abdul Razak was being fitted for a suit by Yuki Igarashi, founder of Japan-based menswear brand Lecteur, he recalls being struck by how neatly Yuki’s pins were arranged on his pin cushion. “As an onlooker there, I couldn’t help but analyse…
What is home, if not a place for comfort, with a little whimsy sprinkled in? For Aneeth Arora, founder of fashion brand Péro, working with garments has always been about creating experiences, and telling stories. Taking this forward through Péro home, only felt natural. She calls it less of a pivot and more of a natural…
What is home, if not a place for comfort, with a little whimsy sprinkled in? For Aneeth Arora, founder of fashion brand Péro, working with garments has always been about creating experiences, and telling stories. Taking this forward through Péro home, only felt natural. She calls it less of a pivot and more of a natural…
There is a tendency among car buyers to dismiss small-capacity engines before they have even had a chance to prove themselves. The assumption is straightforward : a larger engine will always feel more effortless, more capable and better suited to the demands of an SUV. On paper, the Renault Duster TCe 100 doesn’t appear to…
