What Could Have Been: The Lebanese Rocket Society
Professor Manoug Manougian has dreamed of space exploration ever since he was a child growing up in the West Bank in the 1940s. The Florida-based academic holds an intriguing position in the history of...
View ArticleGeorgia O’Keeffe’s Magnificent Watercolour Studies
To hear it now, the name Georgia O’Keeffe echoes with the bold statements and famous forms that her erudite career, more than 60 years long and adorned with outstanding professional achievements, has...
View ArticleA Brief History of the Sequin
Gareth Pugh’s spectacular S/S16 collection was an ode to Soho, and the libertine nightlife the London district has played host to since the 1700s. Mini dresses with plunging necklines were covered from...
View ArticleCalifornia Counter-Culture Through the Eyes of Mary Heilmann
Who? Born in California in 1940, Mary Heilmann studied ceramics, literature, poetry and sculpture in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Berkeley, before moving to New York in 1968. While in New York,...
View ArticleThe Surreal Colombian Drama You Need to Watch
When Colombian director Ciro Guerra said that he was intending to make a film set in the Amazon jungle, written in the Amazonian language and shot entirely in black and white, many people told him he...
View ArticleAn Artistic Melodrama of Dreams and the Recumbent Body
Watching one of Elizabeth Price's climatic video installations can have a profound effect on a person. Connected by a technical or social historical reference – such as the gesture of a singular arm...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Fetishwear Company of 1920s Paris
Who? As Michel Foucault famously attested, we often presume that contemporary society is singularly sexually liberated, that those who came before us were far more conservative, even their innermost...
View ArticleLittle Annie: Avant-Garde Songstress
Little Annie Bandez is a woman of ungraspable subcultural impact. Best known for her seductively abstract formulations of blues and jazz, her influence has an abundance of transgressive importance. As...
View ArticleThe Photographer Creating Painterly Images From Memory
"Do you want to know the full story?" Dean West asks me over the phone one Wednesday afternoon. As propositions go it sounds like an invitation to hear a slice of salacious gossip, but in fact the...
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves This Week: Floral Menswear & Face Plates
Whoever thinks that floral embroidery should be reserved exclusively for womenswear is proved sorely wrong by this glorious denim jacket – complete with eye-catching flowers stitched delicately onto...
View ArticleThree Instagram Accounts for the Musically Minded
The past few weeks have been somewhat momentous for brilliant British musician PJ Harvey, who kickstarted her extensive stint of summer touring in promotion of her new album and joined Instagram –...
View ArticleFortune Cookie Fates Repurposed in Collage Form
A glassy-eyed pigeon urging you to enjoy your Saturday; a go-getting grandma canoeing her way to thrilling plans for the week ahead; an ambitious starlet lasciviously taking a shower under a watering...
View ArticleDive Into the Deepest Oceanic Abyss in the World
Where on Earth?Challenger DeepGPS Coordinates: 11°22′N 142°35′E Marine biologists and explorers are always quick to point out that we know more about some celestial bodies than we do about the depths...
View ArticleThe Alternative Masculinity of Phoebe English’s S/S17 Boys
Phoebe English is softly spoken and has a gentle touch with her handmade textiles, so it’s little wonder that her debut presentation of menswear at London Collections: Men would echo her taste for...
View ArticleAn Italian Adventure with Stephen Shore
On a particularly dreary day in London, we're looking to a brand new book from lauded photographer Stephen Shore – featuring shots from the idyllic Italian comune of Luzzara, in the province of Reggio...
View ArticleDiscover the Unpublished Masterpiece that Defined Dada
In 1920, a 25-year-old Tristan Tzara, poet and founder of Dada, gathered more than 100 works by over 40 artists in ten countries for an anthology which was to be called Dadaglobe. It was intended to be...
View ArticleWhen Olafur Eliasson Took Over the Château de Versailles
France’s magnificent Château de Versailles, constructed over the course of the 17th century by Louis’s XIII and XIV respectively, might be the single most spectacular environment in the modern world in...
View ArticleCasely-Hayford: Designing Menswear, For Women
The Casely-Hayfords are pillars of London’s menswear scene so it’s little wonder that, over the past few years, countless women have come knocking on their door demanding similarly refined tailoring....
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