Films — Edits

Not one but two special reports await you with Monocle issue 72. Our Style Directory brings you the sharpest in the world of fashion – from the buyers to the brands, the neighbourhoods to the looks – and we proudly present our inaugural Top 25 Retail Awards.

We're celebrating Monocle's seventh birthday this month. Since we launched in 2007 we’ve delivered fresh coverage of global affairs, business, culture and design – online, in print and on air. With five bureaux (plus more to come), five shops, two cafés, a radio station and a worldwide network of 34 correspondents, we’ve been busy keeping an eye and an ear on the world.

‘Benvenuto’! It’s Monocle’s Italian special: meet the politicians, designers and manufacturers determined to re-establish their country’s standing on the world stage.

Make issue 70 the starting point for your travel, business and leisure projects this year – our worldwide forecast brings together the people to meet and places to visit to put your 2014 plans into action.

Over the past year Monocle has sent its correspondents across dozens of countries on a giddying array of planes, trains, and automobiles, to gather the very best in cabins, concourses, suites and tables.

For Monocle’s annual winter edition – Alpino – we travel from the Alps to the Catskills in search of Swiss mountain bunkers, slope-style fashion, how to stage a downhill ski race, and business ideas on the up, all in our Eiger-sized resort newspaper.

Find out the new winner in our annual soft-power survey, part of our biggest-ever issue that's hard on the facts and easy on the eye.

We deal with cold truths in the latest issue of Monocle as we discover why the High North has become a hub for clever investors and ambitious businesses.

Monocle seeks out the makers who have the details sorted, from textile producers to shoelace specialists, and brings you the shops to head to and the brands to wear.

In our special Retail Survey in the new October edition of Monocle, we meet the players who are reinventing retail, find out who’s spending, and learn why bricks and mortar stores are here to stay.

It’s been a year in the making but now our first book is arriving at the best bookstores around the world. *The Monocle Guide to Better Living* is produced by Germany’s premier publisher Gestalten and our new film tells the story of how we teamed up and also why we think the time is right for this modest manifesto about improving everything from cities to the food on our tables. *Available to buy online now at [The Monocle Shop](https://monocle.com/shop/books/books/the-monocle-guide-to-better-living/).*

It’s business time: our September issue features five firms making their cities come alive, three MBA programmes staying relevant in an ever-changing world and one packed Entrepreneurs Guide bursting with inspiration and advice.

Sicily is a stunning Mediterranean destination – and not least for its food. Monocle goes on a culinary tour of the island and drops in on a cooking school that promotes traditional food producers and seasonal recipes.

Summer recipes, sunny neighbourhoods and sizzling reports: just some of the features to get you hot under the collar in our annual Mediterraneo newspaper.

Summer recipes, sunny neighbourhoods and sizzling reports: just some of the features to get you hot under the collar in our annual Mediterraneo newspaper.