“It breaks my heart. It makes me feel sad. That's how it makes me feel. I have a daughter. She's mixed race. So obviously, you know, it’s difficult for her as well. I think it's horrible and it's sad ...

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Want to know where Michel Roux Jr shops for wine or which store Katherine Ryan describes as ‘quintessentially English’? We’ve picked out the top tips given by The Standard’s interviewees for My London ...

If you find yourself in need of anything from a bicycle to a live chicken, a secondhand book to a broken-springed sofa, Brick Lane market on a Sunday morning is for you. Coming here will also give you ...

London shops lost a record £15 million of items due to a shoplifting epidemic sweeping across the capital. Shoplifters are 20 per cent less likely to be arrested than they were a decade ago, a London ...

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“Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories,” wrote the German cultural theorist Walter Benjamin in a 1931 essay entitled ...

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The first time I came across a kilo store, I felt like Indiana Jones. I was on holiday in Greece, doing little more than mooching, when a shop’s signage suggested I may have uncovered fashion’s very ...

Mike Cusano has honed a well-tailored niche that he readily admits does not fit everyone. Sure enough, a casual observer sorting through silk ties fetching $145 can draw that conclusion. Then again, ...