One Designer’s Take on the Perfect Silver Chain

Hotels in Luang Prabang, Laos’s temple-dotted former royal capital, have long taken their design cues from the town’s French-colonial past with teakwood floors, louvered windows and creamy stucco walls. Against that backdrop, the new Senglao Boutique Hotel, which opened earlier this month, is a brightly colored standout. Its Laotian owners hired the Bangkok-based designer Saran…

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How Designers Are Revisiting Boat Shoes

Sometimes fashion just seems like “Groundhog Day” with better outfits. Designers vanish only to reappear suddenly (looking at you, Alessandro Michele.) Trends sputter out and abruptly are back. Skinny jeans were cool until everyone was wearing oversize drop-crotch khakis — everyone, that is, except that cadre of teen style-setters intent on bringing back 2000s-era jeggings…

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5 Designers on Their Lives in Jewelry

When The Times recently invited five independent jewelry designers for a morning of conversation, they all arrived wearing their own creations. “We are our brands,” as Bernard James, one of the jewelers, put it. “We represent what we make.” The designer, 32, wore, among other pieces, rings from his namesake brand’s Flora collection, inspired by…

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