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It wasn’t exactly The Devil Wears Prada, but my time working at Vogue in the 90s was preposterous fun | Charlotte Higgins

The decline of the glossy magazine industry as depicted in the sequel made me cry – but I shed no tears for how it was back thenI didn’t think The Devil Wears Prada 2 would make me cry, but it did. All the fashiony high camp, all the sharp one-liners of the first...

Fake lawyers, scientists, chefs and punters: meet the ‘white monkeys’ paid to make Chinese businesses look global

A foreign face is often thought to add prestige to a product or business – what’s behind this unregulated economy?Piers had been in China for all of two days in 2009 when he was used as a “white monkey” for the first time. He had travelled to a village in Suzhou,...