Simon Porte Jacquemus On His Mother
“My mother was very warm, and also a bit childish in the way she would wear big pantaloon trousers or granny dresses. Without any money, she could look very special and artistic. She wasn’t ‘French...
View ArticleAmandine Chaignot: A Bold New Frontier in Fine Dining
We are over prissy plates. Over fuss and finesse. We prize hunks of raw, under exposed filament, atop wood, without cloth. We relish the irregularity that demarcates authenticity. Fine dining with its...
View ArticleBrilliant Things To Do in March
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium at LACMA, Los Angeles: March 20 – July 31, 2016There’s scarcely a photographer in existence whose work channels sex, death and beauty as fluidly and...
View ArticleMusician Rosie Lowe On Her Favourite Vintage Store
"Revival is a vintage shop at the top of a little town called Totnes, in Devon. It's not very big, but it’s absolutely rammed with vintage ball gowns, sequined party dresses, and Victorian corsets; the...
View ArticleAn Ode to Claude Parent, Father of Oblique Architecture
Claude Parent was a non-conformist. His work was always unconventional, and often controversial, but he was not despised (he told the FT’s Edwin Heathcote that planning permission for every house he...
View ArticleThe Artist Undermining Political Oppression Through Colour
On first glance, the photographs created as part of artist Filippo Minelli’s captivating project Silence / Shapes are gentle, billowing, beautiful affairs – grand bursts of colour rising silently from...
View ArticleSomewhere I Would Like to Live
Mulder HouseIn the Peruvian capital of Lima, in a residential upper-class area, stands a building that boasts the perfect combination of exquisite geometry and 1980s style. Built by American...
View ArticleParisian Cheese Eating Etiquette
Turophilia, or the love of cheese, might not be one of the most commonly used words in the English language, but its denoted meaning is surely familiar to many. While we Brits are commonly lumped in...
View ArticleThe Powerful and Tender Matriarchy of Miuccia Prada
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View ArticleEasy Modernity: The Vibrant Evolution of Chloé
One expects many things of a Chloé collection – not least that familiar, free-spirited sensibility, articulated through chiffon dresses, soft tailoring and retro-inspired denim that feels both...
View ArticleFor the Love of Leather: A Brief History of Jitrois
There is something wonderfully curious about speaking to Jean Claude Jitrois, the founder of the French leather house, on the telephone. “I am happy to receive you in my living room,” he exclaims via...
View ArticleBelmacz: A Showcase of British Nonconformity
It’s a Monday afternoon in the middle of London Fashion Week, and artist and curator Paul Kindersley, with his mop of orange hair, turquoise eyebrows and towering heels, has me crouching down to look...
View ArticleYour First Look at Lina Scheynius' Beautiful New Photobook
"I never really talk about the message of a book or an image," says Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius simply, when asked to explain the ideas and inspirations behind her dreamy new book, 08. "It’s...
View ArticleIllustrated Notes on Spring Scents
The phrasing a perfume house uses to describe its precious fragrances is meticulously crafted, each word laboured over, every adjective studiously considered. To describe a scent as "vertical" or...
View ArticleInfinity and Beyond: The Stellar Rise of Vejas
On the satisfyingly discordant homepage of Vejas Kruszewski, sits a small scrolling quotation that reads as follows: "...I have never been remotely interested in looking like or being in any way a real...
View ArticleAnOther Mother's Day Gift Guide
Mothering Sunday is upon us this weekend, and with it arrives the requisite multitude of gift guides suggesting everything from anti-ageing cream to grim, beige bouquets. We do not suggest either of...
View ArticleZosia Mamet on her Enduring Love for Actor Peter Sellers
“Peter Sellers is somewhat of a god to me. A man who can play Inspector Clouseau, and also star in Being There, is a man who makes me want to be a better actor. I discovered The Party around age 17. In...
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves: The Fashion Week Edit III
This week marks the final stage in our @anotherloves A/W16 fashion week series – honing in on one designer per day and taking a look at the themes and inspirations that underscore their work. From...
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