In the 80s and 90s a Filofax was the ultimate aspiration symbol. The leather-bound refillable diary sent a social cue that you meant business. Just like the pager or the brick phone, it told people ...

For a few years in the mid-1980s, the leather-bound Filofax diary and address book was a coveted fashion accessory, displayed in posh department stores from London to Tokyo. That fad was largely the ...