Monocle, September 2025 – Issue 186

Set sail with Mediterraneo, Monocle’s seasonal newspaper celebrating the style, stories and slower pace of the Mediterranean. From the island of Hydra and the port of Genoa through to Ibiza, we deliver new ideas and fresh perspectives with a splash of sunlight. It’s the ideal companion for mornings on the terrace or afternoons by the […]

L’étiquette is a magazine edited by SO PRESS and Atelier Durand. It aims to (re) define every 6 months what male excellence is, in the form of a paper reference guide. In this issue: A Guide to men’s clothing• 160 Pages of style, stories, encounters and pleasure    

The Monocle team dips its toe into the world of swimming, revealing 100 beautiful and inspiring places to take the plunge. Swimming is excellent exercise of course, but it’s so much more than that: it can be a transcendental experience, offering us space to reflect and to escape. It’s an antidote to screens and all-encompassing […]

The exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcase the ingenuity and ongoing reinvention shaping the world’s built environment. It’s fitting, then, that the fifth instalment in Monocle’s Companion series uses this event as a springboard for 50 new essays, interviews and ideas from both 2025’s Biennale exhibitors and the wider Monocle community. Highlights include: lessons […]