Brilliant Payphones
Can you remember the last time you used a payphone? Neither can we. The coin-operated public telephones that were so popular up until the nineties have become a rarity these days, public landlines...
View ArticleA Family Affair: Our Favourite Famous Grandparents
Grandparents are inexhaustible sources of kindness, patience, life lessons and biscuits. They are partners in crime and incredible storytellers, but most importantly they’re the backbone of our...
View ArticleThe Joys of Spring with Skye Gyngell
The Australian born chef Skye Gyngell is fast on the way to becoming Britain’s favourite chef. Having worked in some of the UK’s most beloved restaurants – Soho’s The French House, The Dorchester and...
View ArticleUltimate Denim Beauty Products
May 17th is AnOther Magazine's self-appointed denim day: an opportunity for us to celebrate all things denim, from beauty to fashion. To ease you in to the extravaganza, we first bring you a series of...
View ArticleThe Full Shoot: Threads Indigo, Serge de Nîmes
For AnOther Magazine S/S15, fashion editor Nell Kalonji and photographer Max Farago collaborated for a veritable extravaganza of denim in all of its possible permutations: from Louis Vuitton's...
View ArticleTen On-Screen Denim Heroes
Ever since Levi Strauss started importing denim from France in 1853, its presence in fashion has been indelible – and that presence is thoroughly documented through cinema. From the cowboy westerns of...
View ArticleLee Miller and Picasso: A Creative Friendship
Who? When Pablo Picasso first met Lee Miller, she had already gained international recognition as a model, muse to Man Ray and photographer. Beginning in the South of France – where Picasso was living...
View ArticleA Skateboarding Vampire Romance
The best films are the the ones which lift you straight from your seat and fling you into their alternate world, only releasing their grip as the closing credits roll. And A Girl Walks Home Alone at...
View ArticleBibi Cornejo Borthwick on Photographing Animals
"My new obsession is photographing animals. I’ve got a French Bulldog called Brooklyn. Working and living in New York can be so crazy that to have a moment of solitude with him after a stressful day is...
View ArticleGary Baseman on his Coach Characters
We are big fans of unions between the worlds of fashion and illustration – and Coach's S/S15 collaboration with Gary Baseman is a particular joy. Characters that could initially seem whimsical are...
View ArticleFloating, Falling, Drowning, Flying with Phoebe English
Tomorrow sees the launch of Phoebe English’s first venture into an art gallery space as she opens her new exhibition, Floating, Falling, Drowning, Flying: An Introspective of Process, at Greenwich’s...
View ArticleThree Glorious Garden Centres
Just as every Wimbledon fortnight is met by a surge in tennis lessons and racquet buying, the week of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show cues the nationwide flexing of newly discovered green fingers. Suddenly...
View ArticleLiterary Voices of Detroit
In terms of popular culture, Detroit is most readily associated with its extraordinary musical heritage, as well as cinematic classics like Grosse Point Blank and True Romance. Its literary figures are...
View ArticleBecoming Marni: A Year of Discovery
Marni have spent the past year celebrating their 20th anniversary with a series of events that have come under the umbrella of the wonderfully titled Marni Prisma – a project which Special Project...
View ArticleArtists Unframed
It is often difficult to separate the artist from their creative work, but a new treasure of a book, Artists Unframed, provides the opportunity to do just that. A hunt through the extensive collection...
View ArticleLessons We Can Learn From Frances Ha
If you are, or ever have been, a twentysomething struggling to etch out your niche in the world, it's likely that Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach's "mumblecore" masterpiece, will strike a resonant chord....
View ArticleAn Invitation to Yohji Yamamoto's S/S99 Wedding
Tim Blanks called it “one of the most enchanting fashion shows I’ve ever seen”, and Suzy Menkes termed it the “zenith” of his career. Yohji Yamamoto’s S/S99 collection was one that brought audience...
View ArticleAndré Kertész & the Lives of Others
Who? André Kertész has been described as the "unknown solider of photography" – a lack of recognition that he himself often bemoaned – yet today he is thought of as the father of photojournalism. Born...
View ArticleThe Best of Cannes, The Worst of Cannes
As the 2015 edition of the Cannes Film Festival draws to a close, and before the awards are doled out on Sunday, it is time to reflect on the highs and lows of 2015's selection. It was an odd year, in...
View ArticleProspect Cottage & Derek Jarman's Garden
Much is made of grand, regimented gardens, all herbaceous borders and well-pruned roses, symmetry and sundials. But this week’s most loved post extols the virtues of a humbler horticultural style,...
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