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Fashion Designer Duro Olowu on Curation and Creation
“I find it hard to sit for hours sketching,” confides Duro Olowu about the bold polkadot-and-stripe print in his idiosyncratically colourful S/S16 collection, a pattern he designed while doodling on...
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Byronesque: The App Revolutionising Vintage Fashion Shopping
"It all came about when one of our customers emailed to see if we could help her find a Yohji Yamamoto piece from 1994," explains Gill Linton, CEO and editor-in-chief of the vintage personal shopping...
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Inside Malin + Goetz’s Satisfying New London Store
It’s been 12 years since Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz launched their botanical-inspired skincare label, one which has become synonymous with simple, trustworthy and directive branding, quietly...
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The Illustrated Book Finding Humour in Culinary Critique
If you've ever had the pleasure of watching BoJack Horseman, Netflix's irreverent cartoon sitcom mocking Hollywood through the eyes of a forgotten anthropomorphised horse-star, then you'll already be...
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The Instagram Accounts Feeding Our Appetite for Rare Books
We’ve long been vocal supporters of IDEA, the pioneering Dover Street Market-based bookseller founded by Angela Hill and David Owens that transformed the industry when, some years ago, they took to...
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Lessons We Can Learn From Father of the Bride
The tradition of Father’s Day supposedly dates back to 1910, when one Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, held a celebration to honour her widower father, who had raised six children on his own....
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What AnOther Loves This Week: Tactile Jewels & Zodiac Cats
1970s colour palettes, graphic shapes and rich, textural combinations are part and parcel of Marni’s DNA – all three of which are distilled in the solid sculptural form of these beautiful earrings from...
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The Unexpected Art of Posing in Trees
Next time you decide to treat yourself to a pleasurable Sunday morning scour of your local flea market or bric-a-brac store, keep an eye on found photography, and see if you can spot any vintage shots...
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Gangs of Style: Decoding Pitti Uomo
When charting the rise of Italian fashion over recent decades, it is impossible not to include Pitti Immagine. While it is the National Chamber of Italian Fashion (or, more accurately, Camera Nazionale...
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The Ten Best Things We Saw at Art Basel
“I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism,” Hans-Ulrich Obrist once remarked. “I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's...
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Nehera: The Czechoslovakian Brand Championing Minimalism
A raft of quiet, cerebral clothes has started to infiltrate our chaotic world. Wide legged trousers in heavy-weight cotton twill, linen shifts, double-button leather blazers and soft, flat shoes – they...
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The Most Compelling Short Films of the Year So Far
The year is not even half over, and already a blaze of new short films have entered the world with premieres at some of the most important dates on Europe’s festival calendar. From events dedicated...
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The Artist Using Landscape to Make a Bold Feminist Statement
Who? British artist Marie Yates (b. 1940) is a key pioneer of feminist conceptual art, best known for her landscape works combining installation, text and imagery to probe at issues surrounding...
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Exposing Nobuyoshi Araki's Most Sentimental Series
For many, the name Nobuyoshi Araki is synonymous with Kinbaku – the artful form of Japanese bondage to which he dedicated many photographic projects. Stark black and white scenes of intricately bound...
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The Enchantingly Optimistic Perfumes of Lola James Harper
Lola James Harper is a brand that has achieved something of a cult following over recent years, with its brown-glass bottles and candles appearing in the world’s chicest boutiques from Colette to Le...
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Five of the World's Most Fashionable Music Videos
Fashion and music have long made comfortable bedfellows. The equation is quite simple: musicians benefit from having a strong look on stage, while designers can increase their cultural cachet by...
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Rossy de Palma Recalls the Heady Days of La Movida Madrileña
Madrid’s tangerine skyline at sunset, its neon-soaked Gran Vía or the sprawling jumble of El Rastro flea market belong as indelibly to Pedro Almodóvar as the Brooklyn Bridge to Woody Allen. The city...
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Linda Loppa: Fashion Educator Extraordinaire
Linda Loppa, who turned 60 this spring, is one of the most influential and respected voices in contemporary fashion – and has been for over four decades. And yet, when we first speak over the phone one...
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Why Hiroko Matsumoto Was More Than Just a Model Muse
Whether model and actress Hiroko Matsumoto stepped out onto a runway or a film set, her star power was always immediately evident. First invited into the limelight by French designer Pierre Cardin,...
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Five of the Most Influential Artists' Assistants
In 2012, British painter David Hockney famously released a statement ahead of the opening of his upcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy. It read: "All the works here were made by the artist himself,...
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