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The best of filmIt’s an exciting month for cinema with the arrival of a number of hotly anticipated releases. The new adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd hits screens today with...
View ArticlexxxH: Celebrating 30 Years at Hyères
This year was the 30th anniversary of Hyères Festival International de Mode et de Photographie – the time of year when photographers and fashion designers swoop upon the old town in the Riviera and...
View ArticleIllustrated Imaginings
Fantastical encyclopedias have a long and brilliant history, perfectly culminating in architect and designer Luigi Serafini's wondrous illustrations. From the enigmatic Voynich manuscript (a mysterious...
View ArticleDavid Hockney on Twitter
“I don’t tweet but I do observe it. For instance the day after my show opened here, I went to Baden-Baden because I was tired. But in Baden-Baden I followed the critics on Twitter. I then realised that...
View ArticleThe Secret Possessions of Frida Kahlo
“If I met her, I wouldn’t ask any questions. I would only want to stare at her and touch her body.” Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako is talking about Frida Kahlo, the subject of her latest body of...
View ArticleCruising the World with Chanel
Back in the 1920s and 30s, when the French Riviera was the holiday destination of choice for everyone from Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to le tout fashionable Europe, Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, then at the...
View ArticleRudolf Nureyev: Vagabond of the Eastern Moon
He was the world’s greatest dancer, a legend of late night revelry and an obsessive collector of antiquities but behind all the opulence and hedonism hid a solitary figure. With exclusive access to his...
View ArticleThings We Learnt in Seoul
What to know…Beauty practices are unusual in South Korea – ‘snail slime’ facemasks are popular and tiny faces are considered more attractive, so facial massages work by pummeling the face to make it...
View ArticleBibi Borthwick's Streets of New York
"I’ve shot this series in quite an abstract way, looking at the sidewalks outside of the places I love and the nature around them rather than photographing the location," explains Bibi Borthwick. "What...
View ArticleMichele Lamy's Venice Bargenale
"I wanted to make a place to be. A place on the water. A place where all my friends can come. And where I can be surprised by new people too. I’m super proud of this barge here." So says Michele Lamy...
View ArticleFive Good Things: From Aerial Views To Paint in a Pocket
We are always a sucker for an aerial shot of our planet. Earth Glance is doing a fine job of cherry picking the prettiest spots on our earth, the colours are dreamy!read more »
View ArticleCoach's Drifter Shoulder Bag
The daughter of London-born photographer Mark Borthwick and Chilean fashion designer Maria Cornejo, Bibi Cornejo Borthwick has grown up surrounded by both the creation of fashion images and the objects...
View ArticleFive Reasons to Visit Fondazione Prada
At the Fondazione Prada’s much-anticipated new home in Milan, three words especially come to mind: subversion, subtlety and detail. Though the Fondazione unfolds across 19,000 square meters and several...
View ArticleTen Newsletters You Need To Subscribe To
It takes a lot to make us look twice at a newsletter. Constantly faced with a flood of colleague demands, social media notifications and irresistible offers, our inboxes have become closely guarded...
View ArticleA New Kind of Flower
When it comes to chic design Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy of Dinosaur Designs hold the monopoly. Dinosaur Designs has been producing unique jewellery and homeware pieces from its Sydney studio...
View ArticleBeyond the Pavilions at the Venice Biennale
This year, as has been the case every two years since 1895, the north-Italian city of Venice hosts the biggest and most important international art event in the calendar, the Venice Biennale. For the...
View ArticleCars And Fashion: An Enduring Love Affair
Nearly 30 years ago, photographer Chris Dorley-Brown set off to document the privatisation of Rolls-Royce that was taking place in London at the time. As he wandered through Hackney, he started taking...
View ArticleDiane von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty
Fashions change, but the human obsession with beauty is forever. Since time began, we have been on a quest for eternal youth, to look younger, sexier and more beautiful, to kid the rest of the world...
View ArticleThomas Lohr's Gorgeous Birds
Thomas Lohr is a Bavaria-born fashion, portrait and still-life photographer whose work has been featured in internationally-recognised publications like Vogue, i-D and Interview to name a few, and his...
View ArticleLessons We Can Learn From Dazed and Confused
It's hard to believe it now but when Richard Linklater's sophomore film Dazed and Confused hit the big screen in 1993, many critics dismissed it as a stoner comedy of little depth. 22 years on, and it...
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