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Inside Simone Rocha's New Mount Street Store
Since Simone Rocha found herself a place on the London show schedule in 2010, she has established herself as one of fashion's most beloved designers with remarkably impressive speed. Her dedication to...
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Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal
Who? Writer, recluse and visionary artist. Henry Darger is now considered the most prominent figure in outsider art. Born in Chicago in 1892, he was orphaned at the age of thirteen and...
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Kaleidoscopic Paper Creations
Today’s Happy Monday comes all the way from the USA, in the form of LA-based artist Jen Stark’s rainbow-hued creations. With a nod to the Op Art movement pioneered by artists Bridget Riley and Victor...
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The Eclectic Collages of Alan Reid
Who? Artificial flies, silk flowers, shells and feathers are just some of the materials used by Texas-born artist Alan Reid, one of the artists featured in an upcoming show at Glasgow’s Mary Mary...
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Octogenarian Chic on the Catwalk
Historically, the fashion industry has privileged the young and the new above all else — but recently, things have been changing. As a breakneck-speed fashion calendar has resulted in houses like Miu...
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The Wild World of Chris von Wangenheim
Chris von Wangenheim was one of the most groundbreaking fashion photographers of the 20th century. From 1968 until his death in a car accident in 1981, he ranked alongside Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin...
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Five Good Things: Succulent Icons to Urban Tapestries
City scenes and signs take on a new meaning when artfully hand-embroidered by tapestry artist Michelle Hamer. The messages and sentiments ring true for anyone that has to navigate the urban jungle...
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Vintage Magazines Repurposed
Who? Belgium-based collage artist Sammy Slabbinck has made a name for himself repurposing images from vintage magazines and transforming them into bold and beautifully bizarre compositions. He first...
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Digital Scrapbooking with She Comes In Technicolor
Since last October, Instagram account @she_comes_in_technicolor has been enlivening our feeds with a brilliant stream of archive fashion, from early-days Margiela to Miguel Adrover and Romeo Gigli....
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Alexander McQueen on Tim Lewis
"When I buy art, I don't give a shit who it's by, it's just whether it appeals to my imagination. This is a piece by an artist called Tim Lewis that I bought at an art fair at the Business Design...
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The Eternal Allure of the Typewriter
In the grand timeline of written communication, the moment of the typewriter will flash by somewhere between papyrus and WhatsApp, a nanosecond chink in our quest to find the most efficient way to...
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Lessons We Can Learn From A Single Man
When Tom Ford's directing debut A Single Man hit cinemas in 2009, very few knew what to expect. Ford had never directed a film before (not even a short), had never adapted a novel into a screenplay...
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Sisters by Dean Davies
Dean Davies' images occupy a unusual space between fashion and documentary photography – a distinctive culmination of lo-fi styling, candid compositions, and familiar (albeit gritty) urban...
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An Ode to Virginia Bates' Vintage Emporium
When Virginia Bates closed the doors of her magnificent vintage emporium Virginia in 2012, the fashion world lost one of its greatest destinations. Located in London’s Notting Hill for 42 years, the...
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Lying About
This week’s winning photograph, a snapshot of American writer, filmmaker and political activist Susan Sontag reclining deep in thought, was captured by her close friend Peter Hujar. Hujar, an...
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Director Andrew Haigh Talks 45 Years
"I think the films that work the best are the ones that seem to be about one thing but then, under the surface, bubbling away, are lots more important questions that you're not really aware of,"...
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1970s NASA Paintings
There aren’t many artists invited to step inside the esteemed NASA Ames Research Center to conjure magnificent painterly visions of what life in outer space might look like – but then artist Don Davis...
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Marc Jacobs' Decadent Book Collection
Marc Jacobs is no stranger to a touch of debauchery – as he explained to Butt Magazine in 2003, "New York youth culture is a bit of decadence, a bit of youthful bravado and kind of Fuck-Art-Let’s-Dance...
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Brilliant Things To Do in September
Le Corbusier: What Moves Us – September 12 - December 13Rising populations and housing solutions are the plat du jour for the modern coffee shop intellectual, so what better time to look to the...
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Jackie Nickerson: Life Through A Lens
In July this year, the storied Italian house of Marni unveiled its inaugural Autumn/Winter 2015-16 editorial campaign. Poignant and atypically elegant, the series presented Dutch supermodel Marte Mei...
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