Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Margaux Anbouba, a 33-year-old Vogue editor living in the east village in Manhattan, was hunting for ...

If only they could …. We find beauty in aged possessions. That old leather briefcase with its scrapes and scratches possesses character. The bubbles in antique glass amuse us. How handsome that ...

just an old, shambling wreck, whose glory days had long since passed. It wasn’t until I saw the set of briefcases, nicely arranged, side-by-side, in the shop window that I understood what was ...