May 16
Melbourne shopping is some of the best there is in Australia, especially for fashion. But while most visitors make a beeline for Bourke Street Mall and the posh GPO – the former General Post Office remodeled into an elegant home for luxury labels – far more interesting is the shopping at the city’s eclectic boutiques, hidden …
Feb 05
Click clack. Click clack. I love the sound of a loom being worked and the magic that is made as exquisite textiles are created out of simple threads. ‘Ock Pop Tok’ means ‘East meets West’ in Lao and the beautiful fabrics produced on the looms at the Ock Pop Tok weaving centre in Luang Prabang in …
Dec 19
We met Madagascar-born fashion designer Eric Raisina at his atelier in Siem Reap when researching shopping in the city. The Paris-trained designer, who has worked for Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent, makes some of the most enchanting clothes that I’ve ever seen. He’s also something of a celebrity in Siem Reap, a city he …
Dec 18
For most travellers, Siem Reap has been little more than a departure point for exploring Angkor Wat and the other Angkor temples. Yet it hasn’t always been that way. Until the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, Siem Reap had been something of a celebrity hot spot. Its heyday was the 1960s, when King Sihanouk …
Nov 02
We had flown to Phnom Penh from Bangkok to do a story for Asian travel magazine Lifestyle+Travel for a section called The Buzz, which meant we had to cover places that hummed – the best, busiest, most talked-about spots in the city, whether they be hotels, restaurants, cafés, bars, or boutiques. Shopping the chicest boutiques …
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