Black Mountain College: Educating the Avant-Garde
The 1930s were a sinister time for the arts, in every corner of the the world. In Europe, the ascension of Adolf Hitler precipitated the closing of the Bauhaus, the Weimar, Germany-based art and design...
View ArticleMad About The Boy: Exploring Fashion's Fixation With Youth
On June 12th, 2012, the now-defunct Meadham Kirchhoff made a spirited return from their six-year hiatus from menswear, staging a static presentation for London Collections: Men Spring/Summer 2013 in...
View ArticleMontreal Through the Lens of Photographer Yimmy Yayo
The French-Canadian city of Montreal is a buzzing hub of creativity for designers, photographers and architects alike, who are drawn to its striking juxtaposition of classical colonial buildings with...
View ArticleTen Must-See Art Exhibitions of 2016
“Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one,” American actor Stella Adler once wittily retorted, and in the midst of January’s annual gloom, her message could not feel...
View ArticleNew Zealand's New Musical Revolution
Aotearoa, that faraway land of the longest white cloud; a verdant archipelago at the very ends of the Pacific, New Zealand is possessed of a symphonic landscape equally as varied as the country itself....
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves This Week: Cats and Cooking à la Dalí
January is in full swing, and the New Year has brought with it a plethora of desirable objects both old and new courtesy of the @anotherloves Instagram feed. Here, we select five of our favourites for...
View ArticleYour First Look at Gasoline Issue Four
Teenage cowboys, Britain's Whitby beach and an unsuspecting group of Ukrainian nationalists are all subject to photographic interpretation in the latest edition of Gasoline magazine. Much like the...
View ArticleStarman Waiting in the Sky: A Tribute to David Bowie
Phoebe Philo, creative director of Céline"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."...
View ArticleWinter is Coming: The Ominous Undertones at Craig Green
The current climate of fashion is fairly frantic: as the industry crams more and more seasons into a year, the pace at which we expect designers to create is reaching a thoroughly unsustainable speed....
View ArticlePritt Stick and Provocation: Werner Büttner's Collages
Although principally known for his extensive work in paint, German artist Werner Büttner has a veritable cache of collage work to his name, too. The pieces are witty and subversive, placing the...
View ArticleSix Enlightening Alternatives to Yoga
There’s little doubt that yoga – the physical, mental and spiritual discipline which traces it roots back over 2,500 years and is one of India’s most significant cultural exports – has become a go-to...
View ArticleNicola Formichetti on Digital Sexuality and Diversity
“It was Oliviero Toscani who taught me how powerful advertising can be,” explains Nicola Formichetti, the creative director behind Italian powerhouse Diesel. “I met him back when I was at Dazed and...
View ArticleRosalind Fox Solomon: My Life in Photographs
At 85 years old, Rosalind Fox Solomon has somehow perfected the delicate art of leading a long, rich, impactful life, but without acquiring any of the inflated ego which so often accompanies it. She...
View ArticleSounding Off With Savages
In the three years since the release of their tightly wrought breakthrough album Silence Yourself, post-punk four-piece Savages have established themselves as one of the UK’s most vital guitar bands....
View ArticleA Forensic Attention to Darwin at Alexander McQueen A/W16
Sarah Burton was thinking about "obsessive collectors" for her Autumn/Winter 2016 men’s collection for Alexander McQueen, she said, about Sir John Soane, Charles Darwin and the search for rare plant...
View ArticleSecond Self: The Art of the Female Alter Ego
For years artists have been exploring the self by creating and existing as fictional characters – as seen in the many faces of Claude Cahun, the pseudo-life of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s alter ego Roberta...
View ArticleAn Interview with Alexander Fury
In recent years, Alexander Fury has made a reputation for himself as one of the best fashion critics around, his encyclopaedic knowledge of referencing paired with a sharp wit ensuring that everything...
View ArticleAtsuko Kudo: Queen of Latex
Sometimes with fashion, it can be easy to forget that its inspirations are not totally superficial. Perhaps one of the most infuriating aspects of the industry is its (often empty) use of referencing...
View ArticleWhitney to Warhol: The Custom Letterheads of Cultural Icons
If eyes are the window to the soul, then stationery might well be a portal to the brain: notes scribbled in a distinctive ink in a fine notebook demonstrating an infinitely more thoughtfully put...
View ArticleTen Things You Might Not Know About Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (1901 – 1966) was a tireless visionary – a man obsessed with material and metaphorical presence, and the cohesion between the two. His works represent the existentialism of the 20th...
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