Phlo: Architectural Wooden Clutches

Beijing-based designer Vega Zaishi Wang collaborates with woodworker Christian Melz on unique purses

Central Saint Martins alum Vega Zaishi Wang is gaining reputation as one the brightest rising stars in the Chinese design world. In the last few years, the independent fashion designer has shaped fascinating creations that merge her time in the East and West, and she has shown she’s unafraid to get experimental. (As evidenced in her electroluminescent Alpha Lyrae collection, which featured glowing blue dresses …

Seven Ways to Wear Pineapples

Designers turn to the spiky tropical fruit as a muse and the results are tasty

The weather in NYC has been teasing a taste of summer lately, and with it comes an appetite for the sweet and tropical. Lasting much longer than a piña colada are these classy ways to wear your love for pineapple, without feeling like you’ve dressed up for a luau-themed barbecue. Designers have turned to the spiky fruit as their muse and the results are almost …

The Buttery Store

An online menswear boutique sets up its brick-and-mortar in a seaside village off the English coast

by Zoë Sanders The English seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea is home to a menswear store doing things differently. Having first launched online in May 2011, The Buttery Store opened its brick-and-mortar premises in this small town 35 miles east of London in late 2013. CH took the train to the seaside to visit the store (stocked with goods from the likes of London skateboard brand …