What’s in store for retail? Monocle’s Retail Survey checks out the global benchmarks in shopping, while its spring Style Directory rounds up the labels, designers and products on the radar of the sharpest dressers. Elsewhere, in-depth feature on the mystery of who blew up Nord Stream and reveal Paris’s best sandwich – and how to make it.

Published out of London, Monocle was launched as a magazine briefing on global affairs, business, culture, design and much more in 2007.