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Tokujin Yoshioka grid-body mannequins wearing Issey Miyake Body series sculptural bodices in gold, blue, and red, National Art Center Tokyo 2016

Radical Form

The designers and visionaries who made Japan fashion's great laboratory.

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Essential Reading in Style

World Trade Center Seoul entrance at the COEX complex, Gangnam

Packing for Frieze Seoul: Soft Layers, Not Two Outfits

Cold COEX halls, warm Gangnam plazas, Hannam dinners: one soft mid-layer does more work than a day look and a night look.

Art Basel Hong Kong preview floor at HKCEC

What Hong Kong Art Week Dressing Actually Looks Like

Art March, though a government initiative, has become a crucible of taste: no-logo rooms, harbour humidity, and clothes that survive twelve steamy hours on your feet.

Seoul skyline reflected on the Han River at night

The Return of Quiet Luxury in Seoul

Seoul's fashion establishment is embracing restraint over spectacle.

Close-up of a mechanical wristwatch dial used to illustrate independent Japanese watchmaking

Independent Japanese Watchmakers to Know

Beyond the established houses, a quiet revolution in horology is underway.

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The Tastemakers

Who sets taste in each market: buyers, stylists, founders, editors, and socialites across Asia and the diaspora.

Illustration of a buyer in a dark coat writing an order at a long garment rail hung with coats, jackets, trousers and dresses

Beyond K-Pop: What Drives Fashion in Seoul

Longquan celadon screen panels across the facade of a hall at the Hangzhou National Archives, reflected in the pool in front of it

The New Literati

Model in a black satin slip dress with lace trim from Anna Sui, reclining against a warm studio backdrop

Cut in Asian America

Totem poles and carved house posts in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, framed by floor-to-ceiling glass with the North Shore mountains beyond

Transpacific Taste

Tokujin Yoshioka grid-body mannequins wearing Issey Miyake Body series sculptural bodices in gold, blue, and red, National Art Center Tokyo 2016

Radical Form

Ochre Peranakan kebaya from Malaya, circa 1950, in the collection of the Peranakan Museum, Singapore

Equatorial Modern

Thai silk sarong with weft ikat pattern, 1940s, from the East-West Center textile collection

Bangkok's Global Creative Class

Editor's Route

Fair-Week Dressing

Climate physics for collector calendars: humidity in Hong Kong, temperature swing in Seoul, walking miles in Venice, tropical formality between rooms.

Korean Pavilion interior at the Giardini, Venice, with wood floors, skylight, and park trees beyond the glass

Dress for the Giardini, Not the Canal

World Trade Center Seoul entrance at the COEX complex, Gangnam

Packing for Frieze Seoul: Soft Layers, Not Two Outfits

Art Basel Hong Kong preview floor at HKCEC

What Hong Kong Art Week Dressing Actually Looks Like

Brunello Cucinelli twisted linen leisure suit, Spring/Summer 2025 product photography

Tropical Formal for the Diaspora Wardrobe

Editor's Route

Fashion & Dressing

Department-store logic, quiet Seoul labels, and heritage silhouettes worn as modern wardrobe.

Isetan department store, Shinjuku, Tokyo

Tokyo Department Store Dressing

Seoul skyline reflected on the Han River at night

The Return of Quiet Luxury in Seoul

1960s printed velvet qipao, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The New Cheongsam Circuit

Bespoke jacket on a mannequin in a tailoring workshop

Tailoring Traditions Meet Modern Silhouettes

Editor's Route

Scent, Color & Object

Perfume circuits, court color, indigo vats, watches, and the carry that lasts.

Meiji-period Japanese sashiko jacket in indigo-dyed cotton with white running-stitch patterns

Japanese Indigo Starts in a Tokushima Vat

Studio portrait of Taiwanese perfumer Kaiwei Hsieh in a charcoal suit

Kaiwei Hsieh and the New Taiwanese Perfume Circuit

Indian gold necklace with diamonds, rubies, and colored stones, Punjab or Rajasthan

Paris Learned Color from India

Close-up of a mechanical wristwatch dial used to illustrate independent Japanese watchmaking

Independent Japanese Watchmakers to Know

Leather working at a craft bench

What Quiet Carry Actually Looks Like

Contemporary gold jewelry on display

Contemporary Jewelry from the Asian Diaspora

Faceted gemstones and precious stones on display

The Gem Palace and the Education of Stones

All Stories

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Thai silk sarong with weft ikat pattern, 1940s, from the East-West Center textile collection

Bangkok's Global Creative Class

Totem poles and carved house posts in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, framed by floor-to-ceiling glass with the North Shore mountains beyond

Transpacific Taste

Longquan celadon screen panels across the facade of a hall at the Hangzhou National Archives, reflected in the pool in front of it

The New Literati

Ochre Peranakan kebaya from Malaya, circa 1950, in the collection of the Peranakan Museum, Singapore

Equatorial Modern

Illustration of a buyer in a dark coat writing an order at a long garment rail hung with coats, jackets, trousers and dresses

Beyond K-Pop: What Drives Fashion in Seoul

Model in a black satin slip dress with lace trim from Anna Sui, reclining against a warm studio backdrop

Cut in Asian America

Wide view of CENTRESTAGE 2025 at HKCEC with circular LED stage reading CENTRESTAGE 10th Asia’s Fashion Spotlight

Buyers Meet Asian Labels at CENTRESTAGE

PhotoVogue Taipei 2026 key visual with PHOTO VOGUE TAIPEI title over a collage of works by Fragments of Remembering photographers

PhotoVogue Taipei Maps Memory Across Eight Asian Markets

Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí Skeleton Dress, 1938, black silk crepe with trapunto bones on a studio mannequin

Schiaparelli’s V&A Exhibition Treats Fashion as Surrealist Art

Model in a white turtleneck with a stuffed waist bump walking CFGNY’s outdoor lot runway at Amant, Brooklyn, with audience and an Amant flight case behind

CFGNY Turns Asian-American Ambiguity Into Fashion

Model in black leather Versace dress lying on a brown carpet among Vogue Italia stacks, Medusa books, and a classical bust

Versace Puts the Archive on the Floor

Cartier Specula modular Toi & Moi ring with two triangular diamonds on white gold against a soft studio background

Cartier’s High Jewelry Innovation Is Modular

Yang Zi wearing stacked Pomellato Nudo rings, earrings, and necklace in rose gold with blue topaz and diamond pavé

Pomellato Puts Yang Zi on Nudo for the Global Feed

Red lanterns over Grant Avenue in San Francisco Chinatown, with Peking Bazaar storefront and green pagoda eaves

Vogue World Gets San Francisco Wrong Without Asia

Kit Woo look: oversized funnel-neck coat, wrapped head covering, and a trailing sash against rust curtains

Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week Has Outgrown the “Emerging Market” Compliment

Macro of LOTH Watch 1 German-silver bridges with hand-applied anglage and pink jewels

The Next Collectible Watch May Come From Asia, Not Switzerland

Entrance threshold of the Ami Paris Hannam-dong flagship in Seoul, looking into the oak and stone retail hall

South Korea Is Luxury’s Bright Spot While the Rest of the Market Hesitates

Amber jar of Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Rejuvenating Cream against a warm orange campaign backdrop

China’s Luxury Consumer Is Trading the Handbag for the Beauty Counter

The New Asian Luxury Buyer Doesn’t Need You to Recognize the Brand

Black tailored suit with lace cuffs and emerald brooch, Prabal Gurung Fall 2026 runway

How Prabal Gurung Dresses the Diaspora Idea of Home

Wang Yibo and Leah Dou in black, each resting a chin on a hand to show Chanel Coco Crush quilted rings and bracelets

Stack the Quilt Like the Rings

PP Krit Amnuaydechkorn balancing a tall stack of Cartier red gift boxes in a cream silk shirt and black trousers

The Climb to the Red Boxes

Priyanka Chopra Jonas in a black sheer turtleneck with arms crossed, wearing a Rolesor Datejust with olive green dial, fluted bezel, and Jubilee bracelet

The Wrist and the Serpenti

Jung Kook wearing layered Laurence Graff Signature yellow gold and diamond jewelry against Graff green and gold geometry

Diamond Facets, Worn as Gold

Korean Pavilion interior at the Giardini, Venice, with wood floors, skylight, and park trees beyond the glass

Dress for the Giardini, Not the Canal

Meiji-period Japanese sashiko jacket in indigo-dyed cotton with white running-stitch patterns

Japanese Indigo Starts in a Tokushima Vat

World Trade Center Seoul entrance at the COEX complex, Gangnam

Packing for Frieze Seoul: Soft Layers, Not Two Outfits

Studio portrait of Taiwanese perfumer Kaiwei Hsieh in a charcoal suit

Kaiwei Hsieh and the New Taiwanese Perfume Circuit

Indian gold necklace with diamonds, rubies, and colored stones, Punjab or Rajasthan

Paris Learned Color from India

1960s printed velvet qipao, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The New Cheongsam Circuit

Isetan department store, Shinjuku, Tokyo

Tokyo Department Store Dressing

Brunello Cucinelli twisted linen leisure suit, Spring/Summer 2025 product photography

Tropical Formal for the Diaspora Wardrobe

Art Basel Hong Kong preview floor at HKCEC

What Hong Kong Art Week Dressing Actually Looks Like

Faceted gemstones and precious stones on display

The Gem Palace and the Education of Stones

Close-up of a mechanical wristwatch dial used to illustrate independent Japanese watchmaking

Independent Japanese Watchmakers to Know

Seoul skyline reflected on the Han River at night

The Return of Quiet Luxury in Seoul

Contemporary gold jewelry on display

Contemporary Jewelry from the Asian Diaspora

Bespoke jacket on a mannequin in a tailoring workshop

Tailoring Traditions Meet Modern Silhouettes

Leather working at a craft bench

What Quiet Carry Actually Looks Like