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Inside the Life of Fashion Photographer Quentin de Briey
There are some books so magnetic that it’s impossible to pass by them without picking them up to peer inside, and such is irrevocably true of The Other Day, a new publication by Belgium-born...
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Exploring the Concept of Beauty and its Fashion History
The word “beauty” is often found hovering somewhere over discussions about contemporary fashion, even if it goes unmentioned. Beauty, in fashion terms, was once a certain thing: critics were confident...
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A Fond Farewell to New York's Four Seasons Restaurant
One of my first memories of New York is of being taken out to lunch with my younger brother at the Four Seasons’ Pool Room by a family friend. I was about five, and he three. Upon seeing the burbling...
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Three of the Season's Most Exceptional Photography Magazines
Working at the helm of AnOther Magazine, Another Man and anothermag.com to boot, AnOther's photographic editor Holly Hay is well-placed to spot emerging developments in image-making and publishing –...
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Lucy Orta On the Politics and Power of Food as Art
It’s certainly no secret that some of the most influential works in contemporary art are the result of a dextrous collaboration between two (or more) acute minds. Paris-based husband and wife duo, Lucy...
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Lessons We Can Learn From Elizabeth Taylor's Diet Book
There is, to my mind, no better summation of the appeal of Elizabeth Taylor than a statement from the film critic, Molly Haskell. “She was a ‘man’s woman,’” Haskell explains — implying a woman who is,...
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What AnOther Loves This Week: Optimistic Fashion
This week, there have been few opportunities to feel particularly jolly about anything – and so, when we presented Molly Goddard's sunshine yellow princess dress on the AnOther Loves feed as part of...
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Photographs of Unsuspecting Londoners by Benjamin McMahon
As a photographer working across art, fashion, and print media, Benjamin McMahon spends much of his working life trying to establish a connection with his subjects – be they award-winning actors,...
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Chef Alex Jackson: Purveyor of Provençal Granny Cooking
“Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on to a train. Here in London it is an effort of will to believe in the existence of such...
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Film Noir and Comic Art Combine in These Suspenseful Scenes
Though the term ‘film noir’ was first coined in reference to cinema – Hollywood films of the 1940s and 50s took on a melodramatic quality, all sultry femmes fatales, long swinging trench coats and...
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The Best European Arthouse Films of the Year (So Far)
Our government may be intent on turning inward from the rest of the continent with a symbolic goodbye, but not all of us feel that break-up relief. We need you, European cinema! Below, we celebrate the...
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Heartbreak, Hatred and Handbags, Courtesy of Marie Jacotey
Artist Marie Jacotey has long been drawing women – defiant, determined, often newly heartbroken but always resolutely survivalist women, who curse the day they met their ex-lovers even as they wish...
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The Fluid "Anti-Portraits" of Artist Annie Kevans
The faces that emerge from the beige surfaces of Annie Kevans’ paintings peer out at you with an intense sense of familiarity; they appear from their background like a recalled memory stepping out from...
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A Fresh Perspective on the Psychology of Scent
“Odour, oftener than any other sense impression, delivers a memory to consciousness little impaired by lapse of time, stripped of irrelevancies of the moment or of the intervening years, apparently...
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Capturing the Zeitgeist of Lo-Fi Luxe: Helmut Lang S/S99
Helmut Lang’s vocabulary of clean-cut flat-fronted tailoring, layered cotton tanks and sheer tees, utility-luxe parkas, and techno-fabric flou dresses that were bold and grown-up (rather than fragile...
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The Rainbow-Coloured Revelry of Niki de Saint Phalle
Who? As a young girl in the 1930s who had recently moved with her family from France to the US, Niki de Saint Phalle was expelled from a prestigious boarding school in New York City for meticulously...
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Watch Jacob Lillis and Simone Rocha Talk Flowers and Cars
Jacob Lillis and Simone Rocha first met just over five years ago on the pavement outside a popular, perfectly normal east London pub. The outcome of this union, however, turned out to be anything but...
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Three Radical Female Collage Artists You Need to Know
Since the beginning of culture as we know it, female artists have been innately connected to the tradition of reassembling fragments from the world around them to create artworks of their own – whether...
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Colour in Context: Grass Green
Perhaps William Blake said it best. In his poem ‘And did those feet in ancient time’, which would later become the hymn Jerusalem, the poet immortalised “England’s green and pleasant land” for the...
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The Exuberant Works of Artist Etel Adnan
Who?Born in Beirut in 1925, Etel Adnan is a poet, essayist and painter – widely considered to be a creative force of nature. A nomad by birth, her mother was Greek and her father, a high-ranking...
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