When reading A Room With a View, I got the most interesting peek into what my Edwardian beauty routine (and sartorial one) would have looked like had I lived in the early 1900s, according to the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nadja Sayej writes about fashion, celebrity and pop culture. Edwardian style is often in the background of contemporary fashion.

Even though he is based in Pretoria, one of South Africa's best designers, Gert van de Merwe, spends much of his time flying between Cape Town, Pretoria and London. It's almost a case of if it's ...