Portraits in Plasticine
Eleanor Macnair's masterful, three-dimensional plasticine works have long-been admired by AnOther. So much so, that in celebration of her new exhibition at London's Atlas gallery, we invited the...
View ArticleIntergalactic Elegance at Maison Margiela S/S16
This week, John Galliano unveiled his second ready-to-wear collection for the house of Maison Margiela. Elegant with an interstellar riff, the otherworldly references at play suggest he may have...
View ArticleAnOther Intellectual Fashion: Azzedine Alaïa
Azzedine Alaïa is an anomaly in the world of fashion: while at the head of a brand that bears his name, he has engaged in an ongoing dialogue with costume history, developing and articulating a...
View ArticlePoetry to the Power of Two
Collaborative poetry rarely takes the spotlight in contemporary verse. However, Points For Time in the Sky, a new volume of poetry by Greta Bellamacina and Robert Montgomery, not only addresses the...
View ArticleWhere Nature Rules
Where on Earth?Chernobyl, UkraineGPS Coordinates: 51°23′N 30°5′E In the early hours of April 26th, 1986, a series of oversights and mistakes during a safety test led to the world’s first major nuclear...
View ArticleThe Best Oysters in London
I don’t think there’s a better taste in the whole world than that of an oyster. I’m obsessed, and enjoy seeking out the best oysters in London. Of course, it’s much easier when autumn arrives and...
View ArticleThe Intricacies of Chanel Airlines
"This is the idea of the way it [flying] should be," said Karl Lagerfeld of the Paris Cambon airport that he and his team installed in the Grand Palais as backdrop to the Chanel Spring/Summer 2016...
View ArticleCy Twombly's Strawberries
Not only was American artist Cy Twombly a master with a paintbrush, conjuring abstract forms out of splatters and scrawls, and a sculptor who specialised in replicating raw and organic forms out of...
View ArticleSeven Wonders of the Web
Jefferson Hack's Instatour of the Chanel Atelier"Jefferson Hack visited Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel atelier just as his elevated S/S16 Chanel collection got ready for lift-off. What transpired was an...
View ArticleIn Bloom: The Flower Guy
Michael de Feo, AKA The Flower Guy, has a love for flowers which extends far beyond frequenting garden centres at the weekend. For the past two decades he has been adorning public walls around the...
View ArticleFirst Look: Prada Inside Me
When film director James Lima first got a call offering him the opportunity to collaborate with Prada on a short film, he was on the set of Spiderman 4. A man whose Hollywood career spans films from...
View ArticleThe Modern Female Poets You Need to Know
I recently edited a collection of British contemporary love poetry, which included works from well-known wordsmiths such as Ted Hughes, to avant-garde talents like John Cooper Clarke, Annie Freud and...
View ArticleRose Blake on Becoming an Artist
Rose Blake has been a much-loved staple of London’s illustration community for years. Her work – friendly, charming, accessible and emotive – appeals to pretty much everyone in some way due to its pop...
View ArticleJulien d'Ys: My Comme des Garçons Sketchbook
This season, Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons collection was themed around benevolent blue witches, and a potent sense of supernatural power. It seems appropriate, therefore, when long-term...
View ArticleFirst Look: Frieze Week Magazine
The number 13 is considered unlucky for some, but it's certainly proving fortuitous for Frieze London. Tomorrow, the inspired contemporary art fair will unveil its 13th annual showcase of...
View ArticleThe Many Selves of Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing deals regularly in the kind of intimacy that many among us share only with our dentists. From one of her early projects, a series of 600-odd photographs called Signs That Say What You...
View ArticleMementos of Fashion Week By Marland Backus
Marland Backus is a woman after our own heart. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the industrial designer and model has quickly established herself as one of the most interesting faces of the moment,...
View ArticleBettie Page As You've Never Seen Her Before
Bettie Page might be Nashville, Tennessee’s best-loved export. She’s synonymous with the cheeky cheesecake photography of the 1950s – a raunchy new breed of erotica which precipitated the sexual...
View ArticleHelen Mirren: The Power and Performance of Raw Emotion
“I would say in terms of pure, raw emotion, there was a scene at the end of a film called The Clearing. It isn't a terribly well-known film, but there was a scene at the end of it where I had to do a...
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