A Brief History of the Puffer Jacket
Demna Gvasalia’s Autumn/Winter 2016 collection for Balenciaga saw puffer jackets that crept past the bicep, exposing embellished shoulders. This coat might initially seem at odds with the tradition in...
View ArticleFirst Look: Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Rampling in SCULPT
Who? French artist Loris Gréaud is a man shrouded in mystery. He refuses to release an artist biography, a fact which, according to his Wikipedia page, means that "most of the biographies available are...
View ArticleHow Samara Scott Turned Battersea's Waters Orange and Pink
“When I first visited Samara [Scott]’s studio – before her exhibition, Silks, last year – I was really interested in her connection between the familiar, everyday substances that often link us so...
View ArticleWhy We're Under the Spell of Sultry New Film The Love Witch
Anna Biller makes films that can kill you with one look. Nine years ago, her movie Viva, a tale of promiscuity in 1970s Los Angeles suburbia, earned her a reputation as a starlet of underground...
View ArticleAn Intimate Film Encounter With Model Lena
It's a little-known fact that many of the world's most exquisite supermodels were scouted in the most curious of locations. Brazilian bombshell Gisele, for example, was discovered while devouring a...
View ArticleThe Secret Sporting Pastimes of Three Creative Icons
The notion that art and sport lay in opposition is not unusual – the painter’s inward directive contrasts with the outward nature of the strike of a baseball bat, for example – but the two are,...
View ArticleIntroducing Galop d'Hermès: The Scent of Modern Luxury
“A brand is the sum of all the feelings, perceptions and experiences a person has as a result of contact with [it]”, wrote Uche Okonkwo in his treatise on luxury branding – and so, to be a fashion...
View ArticleKieran Culkin on His Role in Esoteric New Flick Wiener-Dog
This week sees the return of the master of suburban American disillusionment, Todd Solondz, to our screens with his eighth feature, Wiener-Dog. As with all of Solondz's films, it is by its very nature...
View ArticleA Life Spent Capturing California's Modernist Architecture
1960s California has a rich and storied history – playing host to Berkeley’s free-spirited hippie movement and the amplification of the Civil Rights Movement to name but a few key events – yet, one of...
View ArticleLiv Tyler Talks Fashion and Her All-Time Favourite Books
The 'multi-hyphenate actress' moniker is bandied around frequently these days. Yet, in the case of 39-year-old Liv Tyler, it's entirely apt. Her artistic endeavours – which, in no particular order,...
View ArticleWhy My Best Friend's Wedding is the Holy Grail of Romcoms
There are two categories of single people; those who watch romantic comedies and those that don’t. Maybe the second group watches nature documentaries for the pleasure of seeing a small deer being...
View ArticleInside the Mind of Seminal Photographer William Eggleston
Three weeks ago, William Eggleston made a rare appearance at David Zwirner Gallery in Mayfair, London to host a book signing of the accompanying tome to his magnificent new exhibition William...
View ArticleDancer Hofesh Shechter Muses About the Beauty of Tennis
“I love the fact that with tennis, as with dance, the audience gives a lot of power to a match. The fact that they’re observing gives it meaning. There are times in the studio when I think there’s...
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves This Week: Sculptural Forms
Many of Maison Margiela's pieces could be mistaken for works of art (let's not get into the debate about whether fashion is art: it is, but you know what we mean) but these shoes, with their wavy forms...
View ArticleWhy We Should Question Where, Why and How We Live Now
If you were lucky enough to visit the British Pavilion at Venice's Architecture Biennale this summer, you'll have encountered an ambitious and insightful breakdown of everything you never think to...
View ArticleHow to Cultivate a Chic Indoor Herb Garden in Seven Steps
There’s nothing quite like opening your favourite cookbook, large glass of Shiraz in hand, knowing that you already have all the herbs you need in order to prepare a delicious meal within the sanctuary...
View ArticleCapturing the Altered State Between Wakefulness and Sleep
American photographer Alec Soth has spent most of his 20-year career travelling around America capturing its people, landscapes and pervading moods in his distinctive style, defined by a poetic...
View ArticleWhen London's Fashion Set Decamped to Copenhagen
There are few people who have had such significant influence on British fashion over the past 15 years as Lulu Kennedy, the woman who set up Fashion East (and later, its dedicated menswear equivalent,...
View ArticleMaja Weiss' Radical Exploration of Recycled Garments
Maja Weiss has spent recent years at the forefront of avant-garde fashion, although operating determinedly behind the scenes: she is Vetements’ designer, and has collaborated with similarly progressive...
View ArticleFive Fantastic Surrealist Films To Watch Now
This year has been a punishing one in terms of creative heroes checking out from the planet – Andrzej Zulawski among them. If any consolation is to be had after the February loss of this beloved Polish...
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