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The Unexpected Fashion Muses of Spring 2016
Part of the beauty, the excitement, of fashion lies in seeing what influences will be mined and appropriated each season. From the obscure to the obvious, the thrill of witnessing a label's reviving of...
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The AnOther Guide to Flying Fabulously
If we learned anything from Karl Lagerfeld’s aviation-inspired S/S16 collection for Chanel this Autumn, it is that flying, unfortunately, is not what it used to be. Where once wiling porters rushed...
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Ten Outstanding New Documentaries to Watch
It’s been a fantastic year for the documentary. The form is finally receiving the credit it's due for being on an artistic par with fictional features – a shift which is inevitable, given some of the...
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Seven Game-Changing Fashion Campaigns
The power of the fashion advertising campaign is not to be underestimated. While we may often leaf past them idly while thumbing through a magazine, there are some campaigns that have had a more...
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Art in Motion: Alexander Calder's Kinetic Sculptures
Who? When Alexander Calder moved to Paris from New York in 1926, he found himself at the centre of Parisian inter-war bohemia, counting Joan Mirò, Marcel Duchamp, Martha Graham, and modernist composers...
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Actress Katherine Waterston on the Iconic Great Jones Cafe
“There are things you can’t fake. At Great Jones Cafe you feel the history. It’s on the street where Basquiat lived and where Don DeLillo set his novel, Great Jones Street. It’s got an amazing vinyl...
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Enter the Surreal Instagram World of Venus Mansion
Every now and then, we all need a good Instagram session to lift our spirits; whether it's to aimlessly admire the lives of others – daydreaming of weekends on the French Riviera and summers on the...
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Up Close and Personal: What to Buy at Magnum's Photo Sale
Photographers Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour founded the pioneering photographic cooperative Magnum in 1947, driven by the need to explore and document the world,...
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The Forbidden Photo-Collages of Pierre Molinier
Who? An account of French artist Pierre Molinier’s colourful life reads like that of the protagonist in an Oscar Wilde novel. A product of France’s oft-fictionalised fin de siècle degeneration,...
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The Very Best of Artissima 2015
The pilgrimage to Turinese art fair Artissima begins at Lingotto subway station, where one emerges from darkness into bright Italian sunshine and is promptly engulfed by a sea of art enthusiasts...
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The Most Extraordinary Accessories of Spring 2016
“Accessories are like vitamins to fashion,” once declared Anna Dello Russo. “As such, you should use them liberally.” While the self-confessed maximalist isn’t shy of an outlandish bangle or 40, she’ll...
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Force of Nature: The Curious Art of Dorothy Cross
Who? Perhaps Ireland’s best known contemporary artist, Dorothy Cross came to prominence internationally with her slightly disturbing Virgin Shroud, 1993, now held at Tate Modern. Like a lot of Cross’...
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Bottega Veneta's Tomas Maier on the Art of Collaboration
Whether it’s a flock of birds flying above a wind swept couple mimicking a scene from Alfrid Hitchcock’s Birds or a deluge of azaleas in a Botanical Gardens in the Bronx, the images from Bottega...
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Photographing Shadows in Postwar Japan
Who? Born in Kiryū, Japan, in the aftermath of World War II, Ishiuchi Miyako is a Japanese photographer whose celebrated work includes the monumental series Yokosuka Story (1976-77). Miyako grew up in...
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Why Cher is the Ultimate Superstar
Cherilyn Sarkisian, born in California in 1946, was always destined to be a superstar. Her unusual contralto voice, irrepressible determination and penchant for feather, sequins, fringing and...
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Lessons We Can Learn from Jacqueline de Ribes
Iris Apfel, Loulou de la Falaise, Diana Vreeland... It would be perfectly understandable to assume that the Instagram generation had done its work making household names of the 20th century’s great...
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How Jean Seberg Became the Face of French New Wave
Jean Seberg's influence extends far beyond the cropped haircut and androgynous style which many equate her with; not only did she undertake some of the most important roles in 20th century cinema, one...
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Art in the Face of Adversity
In the aftermath of the abhorrent attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13th, a vast number of artists, designers and illustrators articulated their thoughts, sentiments and opinions through their...
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Rorschach Renderings of Beauty Products
Since the 1890s, psychiatrists have been using klecksography (the art of creating images from inkblots) to analyse their patients, but it wasn't until Hermann Rorschach wrote his 1921 book...
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Silent Beauty: A Photographic Compendium of Flowers
From Georgia O'Keeffe’s powerful floral paintings to the wilting blooms which dominate the Dutch masters’ still lifes, flowers are one of the most universal symbols of beauty in the Western world, and...
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