In a small shop in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Mohammed Rafi sells coloured pencils. He has no less than 50,000 of them crammed into a tiny space. Arne Immanuel Bänsch/dpa In the middle of the winding ...

THERE IS A particular frequency that follows Maria Thattil into a room. It reads as confidence, though she’ll tell you it’s preparation and a refusal to shrink. Days before flying to Paris Fashion ...

WALK DOWN ANY street, and you’ll notice it, an impossibly chic woman with half a dozen bejewelled piercings scattered across a single ear. This constellation is known as ‘ear curation’. The shift ...