Beauty

Accessorizes well with Issey Miyake Pleats Please designs, and much else besides. Photographed by Anh NguyenFaithful to Apple’s history of paper engineering, the packaging comes with ceremony—and a Japanese twist. The long, frosted paper that contains the iPhone Pocket was inspired by the rice paper candy bags used for a Japanese children’s festival where long sweets are given...

Chinese consumers were once flooded with enthusiasm over Valentine’s Day, the unofficial Cyber-Valentine’s Day (520) and tradition-rich Qixi. But the electric charge around love festivals is dimming.Just five or six years ago, love-centered festivals were a reliable consumer engine based on gifts, jewelry and flowers, while Qixi held deep cultural resonance. But now, those surges are sputtering, and...

Vogue: Why do you think luxury has been slow to experiment with video shopping?I think because often it’s people in their houses, it’s scrappy, so brands look at that and think, “Oh god, that’s not for us.” But there are so many different entry points for live shopping. It can be personal shoppers doing one-to-one appointments with clients,...