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The Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts' Fashion Department has a reputation for turning out some of the most progressive and stimulating designers each year. We focus our lens on the graduation shows and the class of 2012 to observe the unveiling of fashion's next generation.

For a small city, Zurich’s 50 museums, theatres and concert halls are a subtle hint that there’s more than beautiful architecture, clean living and stunning scenery in Monocle’s favourite city of 2012. A strict corporate culture with a village-style feel that means Zurich is a microcosm of a well-balanced city that larger neighbours could learn from.

Great cities adapt and change like their residents. The process of finding a favourite has been a global undertaking that confirmed and renewed our love of exciting urban centres. Here is our annual ranking of the best cities to make a base within – who’s up, who’s down and who’s new?

The West Bengali city is at a crossroads. On the one hand Kolkata wants to re-establish the look and feel of its Raj glory days. On the other, it wants to brand itself as a contemporary culture and business gate-way open to the east.

The West Bengali city is at a crossroads. On the one hand Kolkata wants to re-establish the look and feel of its Raj glory days. On the other, it wants to brand itself as a contemporary culture and business gate-way open to the east.

Long overshadowed by its neighbours, Seoul's creative community is flourishing as a new generation of designers, artists and entrepreneurs develop projects from product design to theatre spaces. Monocle's Gabriel Leigh travelled to the South Korean capital to meet some of the people leading the charge.

Take your seats, sit back and enjoy a sample of the music and film highlights in the June issue of Monocle.

Continuing our series on neighbourhoods we witness the transformation of a turbulent area in Downtown Johannesburg into a lively, creative community.

Monocle's third annual transport survey is here with a collection of the design, engineering and infrastructure solutions that are shaping the skies, roads and rails near you. Our editors have taken a tour of the transport ideas that will change your experience of travel.

We follow the fortunes of a Burel factory frozen in time in Portugal's Serra da Estrela mountains and rescued by local entrepreneurs João Tomás and Isabel Costa.

The 51st Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan revealed a change of mood in the design industry. With manufacturers still suffering from tightened budgets, designers are finding new and innovative techniques to maintain quality.

In Tasmania, talented craftspeople are making use of the island's natural materials to design and build furniture, ceramics, and more. Monocle tours the island to meet the designer-makers putting Tasmanian personality on the map.

With the maker movement gathering pace across the United States, we headed to the hilly, vibrant city of San Francisco to see where it all began.

The new Sami parliament building in Finland is a proud symbol of how far the indigenous people of Europe's north have come over the past century, from being a culture struggling for survival to a thriving community.

The new Sami parliament building in Finland is a proud symbol of how far the indigenous people of Europe's north have come over the past century, from being a culture struggling for survival to a thriving community.