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Phillip Lim on Tomasz Gudzowaty's Young Acrobats
“It’s time to stop and smell the roses,” exclaims fashion designer Phillip Lim, 42, his eyes smiling as he reflects on the fast approaching tenth anniversary of his New York-based fashion house. We...
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An Alternative View of Pop Art
A product of its own reputation, the genre of pop art has come to be represented by just a few iconic images; Warhol’s Campell’s Soup Cans, for example, which are now emblematic of 1960s New York, or...
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Wolfgang Tillmans on the Spectacle of a Total Solar Eclipse
“The fifth solar eclipse that I saw was on the Faroe Islands. If you stood in position up on a hill, you could see the shadow arrive, travelling at the speed of an aeroplane. You could look down the...
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Inside Givenchy's New Flagship Store
On September 11th, 2015, the house of Givenchy staged its extraordinary S/S16 runway show in Hudson River Park, New York, inviting editors, buyers, and in an attention-grabbing mood, some 800 members...
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The Beauty of Artful Arrangement
Few things are as satisfying as a carefully curated still life shot; they are the focus of many an Instagram feed, at the heart of many an editorial. Set designer Tara Holmes and photographer Kristy...
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Harry Gruyaert: A Career in Technicolour
“Harry Gruyaert photographs colour”; curator François Hébel couldn’t have put it better. Born in Antwerp in 1941, Gruyaert took up photography against his father’s aspirations, relocating to Paris in...
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The Books That Made Me: Sarah Nicole Prickett
1. Talk Stories, Jamaica Kincaid"I’m beginning this list in the year I was 21, since before that, who knows what I was. In my application to journalism school, I was asked to say, in a short essay,...
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Subversions of Sexuality at New York Fashion Week
"What is the new sex?" asked Nicola Formichetti after his S/S16 Nicopanda presentation at New York Fashion Week. "Femininity? Masuculinity? Is it being genderless? For me, it's whatever you want to...
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The Ten Photographs You Should Buy at the Unseen Photo Fair
For one weekend every year, photographic tastemakers from around the world gather in Amsterdam for the Unseen Photo Fair, a two day-long celebration of a medium which, though still in its relative...
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Five Good Things: From Breezeblocks to Lottery Tickets
"Every one is a winner when it comes to old Bulgarian lottery tickets. They are a pattern lover's dream, with a very strong 70s feel – even those printed in the 90s."read more »
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A History of Female Afrofuturist Fashion
“The apocalypse has already happened. The aliens came,” said U.S. Professor Valorie Thomas. The aliens came in their ships for the Africans, abducted them, subjected them to experiments, and took them...
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Going Green: Floriculture in Fashion
From the lily of the valley famously pinned to Christian Dior’s lapel, to the rose-trimmed dress worn by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, flowers have often been historically used to enhance the human visage....
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The Eclectic Visions of Neneh Cherry
It might not be a surprise that Neneh Cherry has become an icon, considering her upbringing: stepdaughter of trumpeter Don Cherry, Neneh enjoyed a peripatetic childhood between New York, London and...
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The Power of Stripes
Having trouble decorating? Add stripes. Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, it really doesn't matter. You can put them on a wall, put them on the ceiling, put them on a door, a bed, the floor. Adding...
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Uri Aran's Ambitious New Act
Over the past decade, the New York-based, Israeli artist Uri Aran has been exploring the tropes of manipulation in confined social circumstances. He famously created a faux hospital for the city’s...
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New York's New Breed
New York is earning the right to call itself new again. Whether it’s the shift in fashion week venues from uptown to downtown, a renewed appetite for fresh energy or a growing apathy towards the Big...
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The Photographic Memoirs of Peter Schlesinger
Who? Even if you think you haven’t heard of Peter Schlesinger, you’ll know who he is. He’s there in so many of David Hockney’s iconic artworks: the blurred figure snaking through the swimming pool, the...
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Lessons We Can Learn From Liberty
Ask any aficionado of British style for his or her first thoughts on hearing the word Liberty, and you’ll be met with a barrage of multi-sensory experiences, stretching from the earliest nostalgic...
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Stuart Vevers on the Future of Coach
Yesterday afternoon, on the edge of New York’s industrial space-cum-urban garden The Highline, editors, buyers and quite a few notable faces (think: Debbie Harry, Mariel Hemingway, and Zoe Kravitz)...
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The AnOther Guide to Edible Flowers
Willy Wonka has nothing on Sam Bompas and Harry Parr – the astute and delightfully dapper British duo behind such synaesthetic, food-art installations as: an artisanal chewing gum factory,...
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