Raf Simons is a thinking designer, more intellectual than emotional. But that doesn't mean he can't layer a fantasy concoction atop a base of guipure. Recently, he has challenged his own biases by exploring retro, breaking down elements of various eras and seeking to reinvent them. Here he studied specific sartorial references as well as more amorphous auras of three decades, drawing on '50s romance, '60s experimentation and the wild freedom of the '70s. He funneled it all through his modernist eye and the bastions of imagination realized that are the Dior ateliers.
The room is an art-deco wonder. The musicians are world-class.
Chopped-up pig intestines with wheat bread may sound repulsive - or like a very humble pie. But it's a traditional local delicacy in Beijing: luzhu.
Warm spring weather in Shanghai means it's time for the popular local dish jiu xiang cao tou (grass head or tips).
Carnival spirit lights up Beijing during the holiday, as Su Zhou finds out. Su Zhou
Chinese festivals are always linked with food. As Spring Festival approaches, Beijing's festive food culture is on full display everywhere, both in people's homes and in restaurants.
A mystic, flat-topped mountain on the Venezuela-Brazil border that perplexed 19th-century explorers and inspired The Lost World novel is attracting ever more modern-day adventurers.
If Slovenia is Europe's undiscovered jewel box, Lake Bled is its precious diamond.
Americans have their Super Bowl, the annual football feast that keeps a nation transfixed, and Chinese have their eight great bowls, a meal tradition that used to hold national sway, but which has become less and less common.
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