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Sister Act: Joan & Jackie Collins
The 70s were an extraordinary time for fashion. Excess and colour were the watchwords, along with a focus on facial hair for men, and gigantic hair for women. The silhouette nipped in at the waist and...
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This is Husband Material
This week’s dose of Monday cheer comes from London-based writer/editor Liv Siddall, whose wise Instagram celebrates “handsome, brilliant, intelligent, daring men who would make good and useful...
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow, There's Pride
From about the early 70's to the early 80's, people loved to decorate their homes with rainbows. Rainbow bedspreads, rainbow wall murals, rainbow art, rainbows in the abstract, rainbows on furniture –...
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Elie Top: Jeweller Extraordinaire
There is something a touch anachronistic about the French born jeweller Elie Top – with his dandified moustache and three piece suits, he could be a throwback to an earlier, more glamorous age. But the...
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Coco Capitán & the Most Remote Place on Earth
The first photograph Coco Capitán ever took was when she was seven years old, of her mother sitting on a sunlit beach. Now, aged 22, she is still as excited by photography as she was as a girl growing...
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Wildcat Will: Nonconformist Collages of the Demi-Monde
William Blanchard, more commonly known as Wildcat Will, is a multidisciplinary pop artist and musician based between London, Los Angeles and Manchester. For the past 20 years, he has been channeling...
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Prada: The Ultimate Fashion Exam?
“The aftermath of a Prada show is always an amusing gaggle of people tentatively testing out their theories on the collection on each other as if they were about to sit an exam,” commented Susanne...
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Fearless Female Artists with Style
The well-heeled women of international art fairs like Frieze or Venice Biennale prove that the art scene has it on point when it comes to creating iconoclastic looks, and they have recently become as...
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Lessons We Learned at Art Basel
For one week every June, the entire art world turns its face to the idyllic Swiss city of Basel for the extravaganza that is Art Basel, one of the world's most lauded art fairs. This year the event...
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Brilliant Perfume Silhouettes
When Coca Cola commissioned the design for their iconic bottle in 1915, the brief was for a "bottle so distinct that you would recognise it by feel in the dark.” This desire for an iconoclastic shape...
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Five Good Things: Forgotten Malls to Fictional Palettes
Regular readers will be aware of our love of abandoned buildings. Our most recent find is this series of abandoned shopping malls in the U.S. Vast empty spaces which speak volumes about consumerism and...
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The Story of Flowers
Paris in the 17th and 18th century was a hive of creativity and scientific progress, particularly in the realm of botany. The Jardin du Roi, laid out in 1635, was home to an ever-expanding collection...
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The Spanish Hunting Dogs that Have Stolen our Hearts
Continuing with our celebration of brilliant independent publications, we can't get enough of Four&Sons, the perfectly curated magazine devoted entirely to "interesting people and their interesting...
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Jean Paul Gaultier's 1992 amFAR Extravaganza
Jean Paul Gaultier is renowned for many things – his exceptional tailoring, his conical bras, his impassioned approach to sociopolitcal causes in fashion – and, on September 2, 1992, all of these...
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Amazing Illustrated Letters
Virginia Woolf once declared that letter writing was "the humane art, which owes its origins in the love of friends". Indeed, she was so devoted to championing correspondence that she penned an entire...
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Lessons We Can Learn From Raf Simons
For twenty years, Raf Simons has let his collections (and his soundtracks) do the talking; former Barney's fashion director Julie Gilhart once referred to him as a "fashion mystery" in an interview...
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The Best Directorial Debuts
Movies are a risky business. While a great directorial debut may pave the way to cinematic fame and glory, a failure can be a one-way ticket straight to movie jail. Jonas Carpignano has landed into the...
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Lessons We Can Learn From Alice in Wonderland
Over 150 years after its release, Alice in Wonderland remains a cult classic in both pop culture and literature alike with its creative cast of characters, fanciful poems and scenes loved and...
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Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Who? "Armchair voyager" was the term that American artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell used to describe himself. It's an apposite one, as peering into the small assemblage, glass fronted shadow-boxes he...
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I Tried To Drown My Sorrows...
There is nothing more satisfying than nailing a killer one liner. It happens all the time on film – Bogart drawls them with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth, the Bonds shrug them out...
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