Thick-rimmed, over-sized or tinted lens, Japan has long regarded glasses as a serious fashion item. Now specs have been given the ultimate fashion accolade; their own fashion magazine. Launched in 2014, ‘Optical’ celebrates all things eyewear.

80% of the world's eyewear brands are designed and manufactured by a single company. In 2010, a start-up eyewear designer with a revolutionary e-commerce platform set out to disrupt the marketplace. Where is Warby Parker headed next?

When 'Tiger Mother' Amy Chua wrote an article titled ‘Why Chinese mothers are superior’, she focused her argument on the academic success of her own children. Yet research shows the excessive study hours of Chinese children is vastly affecting their health.

Germany's Waldkindergarten - outdoor pre-schools - send kids to learn and fend for themselves in the great outdoors. But as the idea goes global, what’s making a generation of helicopter parents decide to let go of the reins?