Second Skin: An Intimate Journey into the Hidden Worlds of Fetish
Anastasiia Fedorova is a writer, curator and fetishist. While perhaps somewhat unconventional, this bio line is an important statement both of intent and inspiration behind the journey of the...
View ArticleAnOther Loves: A Purple Prada Pump
The designer Marc Jacobs has famously talked about “The Prada-ness” as an abstract quality of design integrity and throbbing desire that twitches behind the best of that brand’s offerings. And part of...
View ArticleThe Story Behind Nick Waplington’s Images in the Studio With Isaac Mizrahi
Of all the places Nick Waplington expected his camera to take him, the fashion world wasn’t one of them. “Fashion was just kind of shapes and colours,” he says now. “I don’t really know anything about...
View ArticleIn Paris, a Rick Owens Show Worthy of Devoted Worship
Rick Owens is a great designer – like, canon of the great greats, down in the history books of all-time greats. Alongside Charles James, and Marc Jacobs, and maybe outliers like Gilbert Adrian, Claire...
View ArticleThe Story Behind X-girl’s Infamous 90s New York Show Starring Chloë Sevigny
In those days between Christmas and New Year, when time feels liminal and the days blur together, photographer and IDEA Books co-founder Angela Hill had a sudden urge to do a clear out. At the bottom...
View ArticleFor His Dior Debut, Jonathan Anderson Writes History – And Rewrites It
On the outside of the Dior show space on the southernmost point of the Hôtel des Invalides, a giant, distorted facsimile of Dior’s Louis-Hooey salon was printed. A sofa stretched 20 feet across. I say...
View Article“I Couldn’t Bear to Be Separated from Her”: David Cronenberg on The Shrouds
Sometimes there’s a line in a film and it’s like there’s a whole world of feeling contained within, so much so that you know instantly it’s the wellspring for the whole piece. In The Shrouds, it’s a...
View ArticleFrom Joel Meyerowitz to Felipe Romero Beltrán: Highlights from Photo España
This year’s Photo España features more than 80 exhibitions scattered across all corners of Madrid. Venues span from the lavish – the Royal Palace and the chandelier-heavy home of a 19th-century Marquis...
View ArticleMeet the Collective Behind the ICA’s Experimental New Events Programme
The ICA has announced the latest instalment of its Speaking Futures programme – an invigorating series of performances, workshops, and talks launched in April and continuing through to March 2026....
View ArticleWilly Chavarria’s Heartfelt Ode to American Immigrants
At midday, before his Spring/Summer 2026 show in Paris, Willy Chavarria and the movement director Pat Boguslawski are briefing a phalanx of 35 men – some models, many not – about the opening sequence...
View ArticleThe Best Films to See This July
The Shrouds From July 4 It’s out with the new flesh and in with the old in David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, an eerie reckoning with tech’s ability to conjure up the dead that echoes the loss of his own...
View ArticleCraig Green: An Extraordinary Collection of Colliding Inspirations
“It started with the Beatles,” said Craig Green, of his Spring/Summer 2026. Which was unexpected. I probably made a face, because I hate The Beatles. “Not so much their style, or really … them,” he...
View ArticleNot Suits, But Suits: A Contradiction at Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Shamanic power. That was what Rei Kawakubo channelled for her Spring/Summer 2026 Comme des Garçons Homme Plus show. Shamans are healers – diviners, for divine power. They come to human aid. After an...
View ArticleZomer’s Ethereal Fashion Book Unfolds in the Moroccan Desert
Zomer, who take their name from the Dutch word for summer, are known for their designs that wear like breathing, ever-bright climates rather than seasonal statements. So, for Spring/Summer 2026, it...
View ArticleOne Photographer’s Rich, Conflicted Portrait of Georgia
On the other end of the phone, through a crackling line, Davit Giorgadze has pulled over on the roadside in Tbilisi, Georgia, to talk about his new book. Rain hammers the roof of his car as a storm...
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