Pin Culture: Why Badges Remain a Powerful Style Statement
It may seem difficult to judge the cultural resonance that wearing badges has had in recent history, or why people create, collect and champion the badges they do. From birthdays to Blue Peter, the...
View ArticleWatch Gia Coppola and Tracy Antonopoulos Take Florida
Extraordinary conclusions can arise from the most ordinary of beginnings. Case in point: the meeting of American filmmaker Gia Coppola and musician and video-maker Tracy Antonopoulos, who were first...
View ArticleArchive Images from the World’s First Modern Art Fair
From Basel and Frieze to Art Brussels and Artissima, art fairs nowadays are ten a penny, hosting time-weathered collectors and budding lovers in tents and museums all around the world, throughout the...
View ArticleThunder Roar: Julia Cumming and James Jeanette
Over recent years, photographer Sarah Piantadosi has established herself as an avid proponent of photography that both celebrates counterculture and queers traditional gender roles; everything from her...
View ArticleChloé S/S04: Phoebe Philo's Midas Touch
Phoebe Philo has the Midas touch. During her time at Céline and, prior to that, Chloé, she turned both French brands into cultural verbs. Her recent work at Céline has influenced a generation of women...
View ArticleBallerina Tamara Rojo on Freedom, Form and Frida Kahlo
The headquarters of the English National Ballet currently lies on a quiet mews tucked away behind the Royal Albert Hall. An unassuming home, it belies an illustrious history that stretches all the way...
View ArticleHow Channa Horwitz Permeated LA's 1960s Art Scene
Who? When an LA Times review of her work referred to contemporary artist Channa Horwitz as a housewife, it epitomised everything art historian Linda Nochlin wrestled with in her pioneering essay in...
View ArticleFashion and Food: A Recipe for Success?
Eating is an intimate act – in fact, eating in a restaurant is just about the most intimate way to pleasure the body that one is socially permitted to perform in public. It’s perverse when you think...
View ArticleWhat to Watch at Tribeca Film Festival 2016
As if you needed another reason to visit New York, the Tribeca Film Festival has begun rolling out its annual showcase of must-see movies. Now in its 15th year, it was started in the wake of 9/11 to...
View ArticleSomewhere I Would Like to Live
Villa K by Studio KOMorocco’s unmistakeable Atlas Mountains form the view which invades every single corner of Villa K, an elegant, minimalist building located at the end of a traditional village near...
View ArticleSix Future Heirlooms from NY's 2016 Photography Show
In addition to being a place to rub shoulders with the who’s who of the art world (and perhaps nab the occasional complimentary glass of champagne), photography fairs offer an ideal opportunity to...
View ArticlePaint it Black: Inside Joe Black's Motorcycle Workshop
"Very often a motorbike is an expression of who someone is; an extension of themselves, much more so than a car," says bespoke paintwork specialist Joe Black. And he should know, having been entrusted...
View ArticleThe Art of Claire Barrow: Finding Joy in Dystopia
It was just two months ago that British designer Claire Barrow provocatively staged her Autumn/Winter 2016 collection as a faux art exhibition, The Retro-Spective, at London's ICA. In it, a diverse...
View ArticleMeeting the Grandmaster of Japanese Pop-Psych Art
A talented 24-year-old graphic designer with dreams of becoming a painter, Tadanori Yokoo arrived in Tokyo in 1960, just as the city was erupting into civil disobedience. His timing was perfect:...
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves This Week: Dancing Feet and Floral Grunge
“Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room,” American journalist Mary Schmich once wrote – and this week’s @anotherloves selection takes her advice very much to heart. From socks to...
View ArticleThe Vintage Design Archivists You Need to Follow
While Instagram started life as a platform for sharing moments captured in the present, over time it has taken on a secondary, but no less valid, role as a gateway to all things past. From the tiny...
View ArticleCamille Vivier on Why Women Should Photograph Women
Look at French-born photographer Camille Vivier’s work and you’ll find that the women depicted are often nude – and much of the time, they’re looking right back at you. Existing in a world that’s been...
View ArticleWho’s Happening: The Vagabond Tattoo Studio’s Paul Hill
What was your first tattoo?Stars in the elbow ditches of each arm aged 16 on a family holiday – which, as a result, I ruined! Why stars?Because that’s what I saw as soon as I walked in. I’ve since...
View ArticleInside the Mind of Literary Voyeur Linda Rosenkrantz
Linda Rosenkrantz’s Talk became the definitive work on twenty-something psychodrama when it was first published in 1968. Based on recordings made during a holiday to the Hamptons, three friends,...
View ArticlePhotographing Cats Atop Plinths
Cat lover and prolific poet T.S. Eliot was under no illusion as to the innately human qualities that our fellow felines carry. "You now have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me,...
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