Exploring Hyères, Fashion's Balmiest Festival
Every springtime for the past 31 years, a small, sleepy town on the French Riviera has been descended upon by designers from the likes of Martin Margiela to Helmut Lang, John Galliano to Azzedine...
View ArticleBrilliant Things To Do in May
Polly Penrose: 10 Seconds at Hoxton Gallery, London, May 5-8How elaborate a pose can you construct in the ten seconds between pressing a camera’s shutter and the split-second when the photograph takes?...
View ArticleThe Cult TV Shows That Were Cancelled Too Soon
Television can be a brutal place. Its history is littered with stillborn shows that never got past the pilot stage, or languished fatally one or two seasons in, their characters forever banished to...
View ArticleInstagram Accounts Reviving 80s and 90s Style
The late 1980s and early 90s occupy a slightly bizarre place in contemporary fashion: they are recent enough to occupy a strong position in our collective memories, yet just far enough away for their...
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves This Week: Stapler Whales & Unique Decor
This week is National Stationery Week; in other words, the perfect excuse to reassess and update your desk accoutrements. As any design lover will tell you, just because an object is functional, that...
View ArticleLessons We Can Learn From Hair
Racism, environmental destruction, poverty, war, gender equality… There was scarcely a controversial topic at play in late 1960s America that the musical production and film Hair didn't touch upon. Set...
View ArticleWho's Happening: Fashion's Loverboy Charles Jeffrey
Describe a night at Loverboy in three words… Colourful, cheeky, hedonistic. What’s the most outrageous costume you’ve seen there? My friend William’s self-made Victorian costume with ruffles and big...
View ArticleThe Photographer Seeking Collaboration in Crumpled Paper
What do you see when you look at a crumpled ball of paper? A human heart? A discarded idea? Photographer Thomas Brown sees both, and more, and it's precisely this ambiguity that his newest project,...
View ArticleVisions of Self, Nation and Revolution
"I don’t believe in neutrality in photography," states Egyptian photographer Laura El-Tantawy. "For me, being a part of what’s happening is very important." The happening she is referring to is the...
View ArticleAn Illustrated Compendium of Red Carpet Glamour
The morning after the Met Gala is a peculiar time in the realm of fashion journalism: a time when hordes of writers, from those at the weekly glossies to the daily newspapers, are stuck to their...
View ArticleInside the Mind of Linda Rosenkrantz: Part III
In the first and second instalments of our interview, Linda Rosenkrantz, author of Talk, discussed pals, parents, Pinter and Pop Art. For this final part, the author opens up about the long road to...
View ArticleTacita Dean on Filming Frescoes Through a Macro Lens
British artist Tacita Dean is best known for her experimental work in film, her cinematic portraits focussed on evoking a sense of history, time and place, rather than following traditional narrative...
View ArticleA Five-Point Guide to the Work of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was born to wealthy English parents in Dublin in 1909, and had a colonial childhood amongst the Troubles in a succession of Irish country houses. It was, however, not a happy one:...
View ArticleExclusive: Jefferson Hack on his Brand New Book
“We are in science fiction now. All the revolutions and old methods for changing consciousness are bankrupt. We’re back to magic, to psychic life . . . all public reality is a script, anyone can write...
View ArticleIn Praise of Resurrection's Fabulous New Emporium
On a bitterly cold January in 1996, Kate Moss happened upon a new boutique in New York’s East Village that – unbeknown to the British supermodel – had opened its doors that very same day. With an...
View ArticleMusician Eska on the Power of Transformative Dressing
“I love preparing a good something to bring to a house party. Or, of course, if there’s a theme, making more of an effort. The whole dressing-up thing came late into my life – I didn’t do it as a...
View ArticleThe Art of Condensing Whole Movies Into Single Photographs
A Turner-esque wash of reds and blues; ghostly shadows marking the spot where protagonists once stood; the eerie serenity of a cartoon frozen in uncomfortably vivid hues: London-based artist Jason...
View ArticleA Delineation of The Met's Thrilling Manus x Machina Show
What are the assumptions tied to the manmade and the technological? And is it possible to delineate these, to break down the values assigned to them – particularly within regard to the realm of...
View ArticleHaaT: The Fashion Brand Preserving Japanese Artistry
When Makiko Minagawa first met Issey Miyake in 1970, it was on the premise of getting his advice on her planned move to London – but their interaction didn't quite go as planned. "We met and he said,...
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