It is not the first year that Karl Lagerfeld ventures a fashionable journey. Moscow, Shanghai, Byzantium (and now Mumbai) are the designer's sources of inspiration for the Chanel pre-collections. As we have already reported, this time he offered to make a 10-minute trip from Paris to Bombay. Full story

Makeup can be regarded as successful in case it is able to highlight facial features, to hide flaws and to give a natural appearance at the same time. Full story

Here’s a gadget you would do well to check out if you don’t have a fireplace at home – oh, maybe if you do, too. It’s a device of an exquisite design that will help you keep the inclement weather firmly outside. Besides, it will bring along a touch of the oriental beauty. Full story

The beauty of Chinese woodlands made even more exotic and mysterious by the presence of various unexpected objects is the theme of 2010/11 Gift Collection by Shanghai Tang. Haunting and tantalizing, they introduce oriental exquisite uncommonness that is ever fresh. Full story

True, we don’t seem to have had this one before: the new idea for the shape of a cell phone is a star fish. The Oriental have made a habit of choosing queer ones, and you may catch a surprised glance or two getting it out. Full story