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At Louis Vuitton the Future is Ergonomic
Fashion week invariably transforms Paris into a giant traffic jam – static cars, fashion figures fleeting between, running to shows – or everyday Parisians, to more important things. That is the...
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At Chanel Matthieu Blazy Has the Freedom to Imagine
Matthieu Blazy is just over a year into his open reconsideration of the house Gabrielle Chanel built. But fashion waits for no man – with three ready-to-wear, two haute couture and two of the...
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Cecilia Vicuña on Potent Women, Eco-Feminism and Re-orientating Culture
For more than half a century, Cecilia Vicuña has confronted the patriarchal, Western-centric systems that have led to our current climate crisis. The Chilean artist has an ongoing series of ‘quipus’:...
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The Infinite Variety of Celine
It was ironic that Michael Rider chose to show his latest Celine show in the Archives nationales. Because although Celine is a historic house – it’s actually older than Givenchy, or Saint Laurent, or...
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AnOther Loves: A Bubbled Shoe
Fashion currently seems intent on bringing us closer to the earth. Ballet slippers and wafer-thin trainers are les chaussures du jour: the fashionable foot is increasingly separated from the pavement...
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How Sophie Calle Transformed Her Life into A Work of Art
Art is an adventure, and no experience is so traumatic or mundane that it can’t be transfigured into a curious and compelling game in the hands of Sophie Calle. Be it a broken heart or an...
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At the Pinault Collection: An Arresting History of Photography
At the centre of Remember Me, a new exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, is a vast installation by Barbara Kruger. Titled The History of Tears, the American artist has transformed the...
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At Comme des Garçons, Denim Gets the Royal Treatment
“When royal life and everyday life become one” was the big idea behind Rei Kawakubo’s Spring/Summer 2027 Comme des Garçons show. And although Kawakubo pushed it to a zenith of extremes, with globular...
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Alaïa Takes Its Time
Azzedine Alaïa didn’t care about time so much. He showed his collections as and when he wanted, which was rarely during fashion month. A posthumous book, written with Donatien Grau, documenting the...
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Colleen Allen Doesn’t Mess With Ouija Boards
This story is taken from the Autumn/Winter 2026 issue of AnOther Magazine: “I got my first tarot deck, the Rider-Waite-Smith, when I was 16. For years it was known as the Rider-Waite, crediting its...
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Wild at Heart
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The Brazilian Play That Became Armando Babaioff’s Life’s Work
In the preface to his play Tom at the Farm, the playwright Michel Marc Bouchard writes: “Homosexuals learn to lie before they learn to love.” The play was first performed in 2011 and quickly adapted...
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“There We Were, and We Could Be Naked”: Stanley Stellar’s Gay New York
Stanley Stellar knows how this goes. After a few books and countless interviews, he has the choreography of our conversation down. He anticipates my observational scribbles and sets the scene himself:...
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Pushing at the Lightness of Clothes at Hermès
The contemporary might of the fashion powerhouse enables them to achieve many improbable things – but as a myriad rained-out (or, this summer, sunned-out) al fresco fashion shows prove, despite the...
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Miu Miu Injects Beauty into Real Clothes for the Here and Now
It was three decades ago that Miuccia Prada upended and scandalised the fashion industry with a Spring/Summer 1996 collection she called Banal Eccentricity, but that the world remembers as ugly chic....
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“Opulent and Rich”: Alessandro Michele Looks Back at Valentino’s Past
Alessandro Michele is particularly enamoured with the echoes of the style of Valentino Garavani from, arguably, the least predictable source – the Eighties, a decade taste was having too much of a good...
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Angela Hill Excavates a Disappeared Decade
Two Christmases ago, photographer and IDEA co-founder Angela Hill was visiting her mother, who mentioned offhandedly that there was a box of her old magazines in the garage, which had flooded and was...
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Elizaveta Porodina: “Loneliness Catapulted Me Into Art Making”
Speaking with photographer Elizaveta Porodina on a grainy Zoom call, as she logs on from New York, it quickly becomes clear that this interview will break with formalities. Porodina has a casual,...
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Don McCullin: “You Can’t Save a Life with a Nikon Camera”
“It was over 50 years ago now,” Don McCullin says of the Vietnam War, the subject of his latest monograph. “I still have nightmares about it on the worst of nights.” I call him on his landline. “Who’s...
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Patricia Lockwood: “Embarrassment Is a Great Source of Inspiration”
“I’ve never had poetry in hardcover before, it’s gorgeous.” Patricia Lockwood is holding her new collection for almost the first time. Agate Head Stone Soup had arrived from the printers the morning...
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