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The Astonishing Artistry and Aesthetics of African Masking
Masking is one of the oldest and most widespread cultural practices in the world. Whether at ancient Greek bacchanalia and Roman saturnia, at rituals and ceremonies in Igbo and Edo cultures in western...
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Flashback: A Rare Showcase of Retro Paparazzi Photos
Tazio Secchiaroli, Marcello Geppetti, and Pierluigi Praturlon are just three of a group of early pioneers of paparazzi photography who are relatively unknown today – not only are their names...
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The Impact of Minimalism on Modern Fashion
It is one of fashion’s great ironies that, beyond the spectacle of the runway show, and away from the peacocking gestures captured by street-style snappers, many people working in fashion (those...
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A Scenic Road Trip Through the Swiss Alps
The road trip – fictional or otherwise – has fuelled the imagination of some of the most influential figures in literature, film, art and music. Consider Tom Wolfe's epic 1966 novel The Electric...
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Inside Super K: A Manmade Lake Deep Inside a Mountain
Where on Earth?Hida, JapanGPS Coordinates: 36°25′N 137°18′EDeep inside a mountain in Japan’s rugged Kamioka region lies one of the most incredible artefacts yet built by humankind. We’re headed there...
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Kean Etro's Art and Soul
I’m standing in a stockroom on Milan’s Via Montenapoleone, while a party throbs seductively above. Opposite, gesticulating with wild Italian flourish, is Kean Etro, the effusive menswear designer,...
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The Hedonistic Life and Works of Artist Dash Snow
Dash Snow was part of a wealthy art collector dynasty. His grandfather was a Buddhist scholar and Uma Thurman was his aunt. He was rebellious from a young age, but no institution could iron him out....
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Claudia Schiffer on Art, Dreams and an Unusual Proposal
Every collector has the one that got away. Claudia Schiffer’s is probably the huge Basquiat canvas Larry Gagosian offered her years ago for $20,000. She turned it down because her flat in Paris was too...
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What AnOther Loves: Pale Pink Shoes and Midnight Blues
"The details are not the details. They make the design," lauded designer Charles Eames famously said. A point aptly demonstrated by this week's Most Loved objects from the @anotherloves stream –...
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Charles Jeffrey: Reviving London's Subcultural Style Scene
Charles Jeffrey is not a fashion designer; Charles Jeffrey is a self-appointed "creative director, darling". As a member of Fashion East’s MAN line-up and a recent graduate from Central Saint Martins’...
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Learning to Linger Over the Ordinary with Denis Brihat
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” as the old adage proclaims, but in the case of fine art photographer Denis Brihat, beauty is in the eye of anybody who choose to share, however momentarily, his...
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The Pros and Cons of Coordinating Your Living Quarters
The Supreme Interiors archive is filled with vintage design trends I wholeheartedly embrace. The 1970s colour and style aesthetic fuels the passion I have for interiors, and provides endless...
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Reality and Representation: Martine Syms' Conceptual World
It’s 9am in Los Angeles, and Martine Syms is making breakfast. Swirling, stirring and pouring sounds tinker down the telephone line. Syms says she's a chronic insomniac, which is her explanation for...
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From Showgirls to Subcultures: The Best of Berlin on Film
Much madness takes place in Berlin’s small hours, but mad, even by the city’s standards, was the shooting of Sebastian Schipper’s new arthouse heist in one nail-biting, non-interrupted take. Victoria...
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A Sizeable Showcase of Spring's Finest Mini Bags
As many a street style starlet can attest, 2016 is definitely the year of the mini bag: carry-little pochettes and purses that can scarcely hold an iPhone are all the rage. “It is the business of...
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Photographing the Photographers at Fashion Week
It was last March, while roaming the bland backstage areas of Paris Fashion Week's most luxuriant runway shows, camera in tow, that Polly Brown became intrigued by a select circle of backstage...
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The Lost Art of Calligraphy
In a digital world, where mailouts and identikit e-vites zip through the web like virtual wildfire, handwritten correspondence has become something of a rarity – an emotive relic. It takes time, effort...
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The Books That Made Me: Nicola Beauman
Beneath a canapé of trees on London’s quietly grand Lamb’s Conduit Street sits a grade II-listed building which was constructed in 1702, not long after the devastation of the Great Fire of London tore...
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Fondazione Prada's Powerful Reflection on Art and Theft
In the spring of 2010, a lone thief broke into Paris’ Museum of Modern Art in the middle of the night and, opening a window, proceeded to pass priceless works by the likes of Picasso, Braque,...
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The Creative Duo Disrupting Nairobi's Fashion Narrative
“Our mandate is to continuously add positively to the contemporary African narrative, because for a long time our stories have been told for us,” said Papa Petit, one half of the brother and sister duo...
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