South China Morning Post - Fashion & Luxury

Between paid influencers and marketing buzzwords, navigating the pseudoscience in the skincare industry – with claims such as “dermatologist-approved” and “medical-grade” – can be confusing and expensive. Reading the ingredient list is not enough. Often, a good ingredient appears on a bottle but is only present in minuscule quantities. Alec Batis, a 57-year-old Japanese-Puerto R...

In Paris, police deployed tear gas. In Milan, a fist-fight erupted. In Hong Kong, Singapore, London and New York, all-night queues snaked from the doors of Swatch stores – the latest examples of “drop culture” to flash across the globe when status symbols and resale value collide. The company at the centre of it all, Swatch, is no stranger to over-the-top retail outbreaks, and s...