A Persian rug store, a Japanese concept store, a European vintage shop — three spaces with nothing obvious in common, all quietly thriving in Shanghai. This city has always been a container for foreign beauty: it doesn't absorb what arrives from elsewhere, it holds it, intact, and finds it the people who understand it.

一间波斯地毯店，一间日式买手店，一间欧洲中古家居——三个毫不相关的空间，都在上海悄悄活着。这座城市从来不消化外来的美，它收纳它们，让它们找到懂自己的人。这不是偶然，这就是海派。

At 15 Taojiang Road, a Republican-era garden villa hides behind a permanently closed gate. To enter, you duck through a 1.8-metre doorway — and step into VILLA tbh, the first physical space of Shanghai homeware brand tbh. A decade-old garden, a tearoom, an artist residency programme, and a philosophy: tend a place the way you tend a garden, slowly.

A desk job, a new city, and two practices that changed how I move — and what I wear. A beginner's honest guide to dressing for Pilates and Gyrotonic.

Hangzhou(杭州) in spring is not something you take in with your eyes. It asks you to receive it with your whole body, and to slow down, and actually fall into the rhythm of the city. For me, two things made that happen: stepping into a hand-rowed boat on West Lake, and picking tea leaves by hand in the hills above Meijiawu(梅家坞)Village, just before Qingming.

When spring temperatures can't make up their mind, a jumper is the one piece that always earns its place — in your outfit and in your suitcase. From draped over a maxi dress to layered over a shirt collar, here's how one simple knit can read playful, preppy, or quietly polished.