Radically Slow Fashion: Tallowin's Handcrafted Leatherwork
While Mark Tallowin evidently derives pleasure from working alone, a practice he has placed at the core of his three-year-old leather brand, he is ebullient company when he clocks off. When I visit his...
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves: Animal Apparel & Picasso Plates
Marvelling at unique objects – whether obscure, outrageous or resolutely beautiful – is a favoured past-time of AnOther, as our burgeoning @anotherloves steam attests. Below, in no certain order, are...
View ArticleThe Very Best in New Independent Magazines
When it comes to magazines both new and old, there is nobody more adept at separating the wheat from the chaff than Jeremy Leslie, the London-based designer, writer and curator responsible for...
View ArticleMarvelling at the Moneyed World of Cashcats
The inauguration of the new lunar year might have most of the world talking about monkeys this morning, but we at AnOther are, as ever, preoccupied with a more feline-focused channel –that of Cashcats....
View ArticleVal Garland and Gareth Pugh’s Fetishistic Veils
“In the Eighties, the whole point of going out was getting dressed up,” remembers Val Garland of her clubbing heyday in London’s Soho. “It didn’t matter if people thought you looked shocking, or ugly,...
View ArticleThe Supersized Sculptures of KAWS
When New Jersey-born Brian Donnelly took up spray painting and graffiti, he chose his guerrilla name by simply picking four random letters that worked well together: KAWS. His first foray into art, as...
View ArticleStep Inside Elizabeth Taylor's Opulent Bel-Air Home
Though vastly overused, the word icon can still be fairly applied to Elizabeth Taylor. Whether replicated in Andy Warhol's silkscreen inks or the antique grain of a Photoplay cover, hers is one of the...
View ArticleNine Collectible Books That Money Can't Buy
'Out of print': three small words with the power to make authors shudder, and shrewd book collectors squeal with delight. As with all great treasures, not being able to source and own a book for...
View ArticleTom Ford's Sexual Revolution at Gucci A/W96
Today, when one thinks of Gucci, Alessandro Michele's signature eclecticism – ditsy florals, saccharine colours and girlish silhouettes – immediately spring to mind. This aesthetic is in total...
View ArticleThe Life and Loves of Jacques Henri Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue has one of those life stories which might have been written for cinema. Born in Courbevoie, France, at the tail-end of the 19th century, he cut his teeth photographing friends...
View ArticleTen Cinematic Love Letters To Cities
It’s become a cliché to say that a city is another character in a movie – but some directors are so entwined with their home streets that these inseparably breathe through their imaginary worlds. In...
View ArticlePeep Show: A Tender Exploration of Intimacy in Art
“Something very important happens in the 18th century,” the National Gallery of Denmark says of its new exhibition. “Having mainly painted historical, mythological or representative subjects up until...
View ArticleA Brief History of the Leg of Mutton Sleeve
The leg of mutton sleeve (also known in French as the gigot sleeve) was initially named due to its unusual shape: formed from a voluminous gathering of fabric at the upper arm that tapers to a tight...
View ArticleFive Scandinavian Chairs That Shaped Contemporary Culture
An understanding of classical furniture and craftsmanship, in-depth research into materials, proportions and production, and an exploratory and definitive practice came to define the work of...
View ArticleRadically Slow Fashion: Old Town's Handmade Workwear
For the first date I had with my boyfriend two years ago, he wore a beautiful work jacket in dark navy wool. He’d stolen it from his mother (a woman of exceptional taste who knows the virtue of an...
View ArticleKurt Cobain's Secret Treasures Laid Bare
Before the age of social media, celebrities were so much more mysterious; their lives the stuff of rumour and speculation, save for the odd paparazzi street snap. Nowadays, transversely, we are privy...
View ArticleMusic Festivals As You've Never Seen Them Before
Documentary filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn is a huge fan of the transcendental power of music festivals. Her new book, Festivals Are Good, published by Damiani, documents the fact in glorious...
View ArticleThe Curious Tale of Somesuch Stories
Since autumn 2014, the contemporary online platform Somesuch Stories has published a singular essay or piece of short fiction per week. Off-beat and delightfully esoteric, the content spans a variety...
View ArticleJack Davison on Capturing the New McQ Collection
At just 25 years old, Jack Davison’s brooding, honest portraits have already established him as one of the most promising photographers of his generation. This season marks the second instalment of his...
View ArticleSeeing in Twos: Modern Intimacy by Georgia Hilmer
In an age where "swipe right" and "swipe left" are terms that have become synonymous with romance (of sorts) and there are more dating apps than you can shake a selfie stick at, there is plenty to be...
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