Vanessa Moore

XXY Reviews: The Design Museum

With the reopening of the Design Museum at its new chichi location in High Street Kensington, avant-garde architecture and design are no longer the preserve...

London Fashion Week 2016: Markus Lupfer

At Markus Lupfer, ’90s trends were incorporated into the edit as tech-factory went wild country garden. Bluebells, wild grass and lupins sprouted from a square...

Pop Artist Yue Minjun: The Power of a Smile

How Powerful is Xi Jinping?

He's a man with a dream. A China dream. Possibly the most powerful man in modern China today, his rise to the pinnacle of the...

Column - The Moonlight Tribe

With last month’s paycheck sitting nicely in my bank account and my finances in somewhat better shape than the week before, I got to thinking...

Traversing Russia’s Far East

“But why take the train for so long when you can just fly?” asks Alexandr, a 46-year-old father of two, and my new carriage companion,...

Saris and spices of Mysore

The hems of two saris ripple like waves as the footsteps of their wearers glide forward, their burnt orange and bright pink hues splashing the...

Artifacts | Coal lumps for Christmas

Macau’s winter breezes generally smell more like the noxious scent of car exhausts rather than the crisp winter fragrance of pine trees or gingerbread. But...

Bon Jovi: Performing on a Prayer

Bon Jovi’s Macau stopover will be even more noteworthy considering it’s now the closest the New Jersey rockers will get to the China market.

Artifacts: Keeping it in the Family

Last month Grandpa Xi Jinping paid a visit to check up on his errant nephew Macau before the holidays. Under the guise of marking the...