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How the Antwerp Six Achieved Fashion Infamy
London, 1986. A group of unknown graduates from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp arrive at the British Designer Show, crammed into a small van, to present their collections. Within just three...
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A Photographer's Guide to Eating Like a Venetian
“Crùo means raw, or crude, in Venetian dialect,” Italian photographer Federico Floriani tells me over the phone from Porto, where he’s currently based, explaining to me the reasoning behind the title...
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Ten Outstanding Books to Read This Summer and Beyond
Sweetbitter, by Stephanie DanlerWhat sets 29-year-old Stephanie Danler’s palatable literary debut Sweetbitter apart from every other coming-of-age novel, is the ambiguous nature of her female...
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When Great Minds Met to Consider Another World
New York-based artist José Parlá’s Brooklyn studio is something of a nucleus for creative thinking in the city’s art scene, melding topical conversation with colour and canvas to forge new paths in the...
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Beneath the Surface of Nan Goldin's Most Personal Work Yet
For American photographer Nan Goldin, photography has always been about capturing moments with complete honesty, revealing life as it was happening. “The camera was like an extension of my hand. I shot...
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Why These Five Objects Defined the Radical Design Movement
The inaugural exhibition at Vitra Campus’ newly opened Schaudepot shows a collection of key works of Radical Design, the movement that defined Italian design in the 1960s. In its heyday, the movement...
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Note by Note: Concocting Grace Coddington's Inaugural Scent
Since becoming the creative director of Comme des Garçons Parfums in 1993, Christian Astuguevieille has worked alongside the brand's president Adrian Joffe to produce the most artistically daring,...
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The Music That Made Me: Eliot Sumner
It was her early love of Jimi Hendrix and musically gifted family that saw Eliot Sumner first pick up the guitar. Now aged 25, the British singer and songwriter – who previously performed as I Blame...
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Lessons We Can Learn From La Piscine
An intoxicating, sun-soaked mystery with the skimpiest of wardrobes, cult 1969 thriller La Piscine drips 60s Cote d’Azur glamour. Set almost entirely around the limpid pool of a villa in the hills...
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What AnOther Loves This Week: Eclectic Living
Dressing for hot summer days and balmy nights is so much more appealing when Chanel is involved. Your wardrobe will undoubtedly thank you for these covetable (and collectable) vintage pieces from the...
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The Untouched Holy Mountain of Nepal
Where on Earth?Machapuchare, NepalGPS Coordinates: 28°29′N 83°56′E Rising nearly 7000 metres into the clear blue sky above Nepal’s rugged Annapurna mountain range, Machapuchare is arguably the most...
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Explore New Worlds With These Spaced Out Instagram Feeds
“There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world,” American astronomer Carl Sagan wrote the first time he saw Pale Blue Dot, a...
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Fantasy and Folklore Collide in These Quixotic Photographs
Ellie Davies’s celestial photography traverses the boundaries between fantasy and reality with all the ease of a stage actor stepping out from behind the curtain and into the spotlight. Using forests...
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The World's Most Spectacular Art Islands
In an era which sees our senses endlessly flooded with new information, art and the institutions that host it serve as a crucial sanctuary. What better refuge for a modern adventurer, then, than an...
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The Marvellous Modernity of Selfridges' Designer Studio
Selfridges, the glittering bastion of London retail that sits majestically on Oxford Street, is going through some 21st-century changes. Recent visitors to the century-old department store will have...
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Ethan Hawke on Playing Chet Baker and Finding Early Fame
The biopic has frequently fallen prey to formula in recent years, with many films depicting the lives of their extraordinary protagonists – be they scientific prodigies or troubled musicians – with...
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Considering Shape, Form and Colour with Nathalie Du Pasquier
Who? Painter, sculptor, textile designer and Memphis Group founder Nathalie Du Pasquier is a multi-disciplinarian in the truest sense of the word, turning her hand to media as her inclination, rather...
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Examining the Scientific Makeup of MAC Cosmetics
"As a still life photographer mostly working with cosmetics I often take very close up pictures of products," explains Marc Beaussart, "but here, I wanted to go even closer, even deeper: why not inside...
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The Best Movie Stanley Kubrick Never Made
In the late 1960s, fresh from directing 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick was deep in pre-production on an epic film about a subject which had come to obsess him — the life and times of Napoleon...
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When Viktor & Rolf Fashioned a Statement of Intent
There’s something slightly unnerving about Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, the Dutch childhood friends-turned-design duo. Often both outfitted identically, their faces framed by matching spectacles,...
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