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Peter Philips on the Cult TV Show, What's My Line
“I love looking at things in black and white because there are no distractions; it’s purely aesthetic. Even if you are looking at old documentary photography, everything looks less real; it’s colour...
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Ten Things You Might Not Know About Charles and Ray Eames
The creativity of American designers Charles and Ray Eames knew no bounds. Over the course of four decades the husband and wife made a groundbreaking impact on modern architecture, furniture design,...
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Artist Studio Miniatures
Artist Joe Fig's scale replica of Jackson Pollock's famous studio, created a number of years ago, is a thing of wonder. All of the recognised elements are there; an assortment of hundreds of paint...
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When Alexander McQueen Turned Trash Into Treasure
“The irony of conspicuous consumption is well past its sell-by date,” wrote Susannah Frankel in AnOther Magazine S/S09. The subsequent season, Alexander Lee McQueen presented his final Autumn/Winter...
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Ways of Seeing with Studio PUTPUT
Aside from possessing a delightful moniker (try it on for size; it rolls right off the tongue) interdisciplinary artist duo PUTPUT is one of our favourite studios around. Formed of Swiss artist Stephan...
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Flashback: Los Angeles Airport in the 1980s
"I don’t want to be nasty," Karl Lagerfeld told Susannah Frankel shortly before the beginning of Chanel’s S/S16 airport extravaganza at Paris Fashion Week, “but of course in an airport, with the bus...
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The Power of the Fashion Influencer
Just as teen culture emerged in the 1950s and 60s, the newly formed art of advertising also came of age. Wild adolescents and the recently-invented 'teenagers' bought into a new lifestyle, defined by a...
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Liz Goldwyn on Sex, Drugs and Ragtime in 1890s Los Angeles
On first glance, you'd be forgiven for mistaking Liz Goldwyn's Sporting Guide for a traditional British mens leisurebook – with its firm, blood-red, leather-bound cover, weighty pages and elegant gold...
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The Arco de Triomphe
Lighting has the ability to make or break an otherwise perfectly appointed room; when it comes to settling on the best fixtures it's not only illumination that needs to be considered; the room's mood,...
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Phoebe Philo's David Bowie-Inspired Centrefold
"For me Bowie had the best covers. I love the morphing between an animal and a person, to create something romantic but also very fantasy, a little bit weird." The spirit of this project is of the...
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Beautiful Tiled Collages That Explore the Passing of Time
Artist and photographer Anthony Gerace creates dreamy compositions in paper – often working chromatically, and using tiling to abstractive effect. "I’m really curious as to where the threshold point...
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Unique and Unseen Photographs of Kate Bush
Ever since she released her celestial hit Wuthering Heights at the age of 19, musician Kate Bush has been swathed in mystery, and she wears it like a gossamer cape of complex and ethereal composition....
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Fashion's Most Frightening Ghost Stories
Surely Halloween is the greatest holiday in the fashion calendar: an opportunity for fancy dress to become a competitive testimony to one's styling prowess, and to showcase the showpieces that just...
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Ten Spectacular Spine-Chilling Reads
As Halloween approaches, why not eschew the temptation of ghoulish rituals such as faux blood and fancy dress in favour of a candlelit evening and a thrilling read? From gothic classics to modern...
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The Remote Pacific Atoll That Was Once a Paradise
Where on Earth?Enewetak Atoll, South PacificGPS Coordinates: 11°30′N 162°20′E A tiny, perfect, dazzling ring of coral surrounded by thousands of miles of open ocean, it’s hard to imagine a more...
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Rare & Revolutionary: The Best in Print at Future Artefacts
“Come and see the future of physical media,” new London print fair Future Artefacts beckoned last week, inviting print aficionados citywide to come and experience the most progressive, innovative and...
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An Embroidery Lesson with Chanel
Turning up at the gates and announcing "I’m here for an embroidery lesson" is never likely to feel like the most emancipated moment in a woman’s life. It’s all rather Jane Austen and perhaps therefore...
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The Influential Legacy of Tina Chow
From becoming the face of Shiseido in 1968 at age 16, Tina Chowʼs career was a sweeping upward trajectory, her undeniable allure ultimately shaping the style of an era. Born Bettina Louise Lutz in 1950...
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Words of Wisdom From Revolutionary Creatives
In time, the digitally generated algorithm might come to be seen as the soothsayer of the 21st century; no impassioned opposition can disprove its technological accuracy. Consequently, Gianluigi...
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Léa Seydoux on Being a Modern Bond Girl
Inside London’s Spring Studios a perfect storm of assistants, publicists, make-up artists, animal handlers and world-class imagemakers is swirling. At its calm centre, cradling a snow white dove,...
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