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Cooking to Seduce: The New Culinary Aphrodisiacs
Food and sex are undoubtedly two of life’s greatest pleasures. When united, they prove as fascinating now as they did in 4BC, when famed Greek botanist Theophrastus recommended a “love potion”...
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Haeckels: The Skincare Brand Making Sustainability Chic
Who? Margate-based cosmetic company Haeckels was launched in 2012 by self-proclaimed "coastal enthusiast" Dom Bridges, a man who was determined to celebrate the seaside town's approach to healthy and...
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The Many Disguises of Bauhaus Photographer Gertrud Arndt
“I’ll never finish taking off all these masks,” wrote Claude Cahun in 1930. The performative self-portrait, and the filmic and photographic investigation into the “masquerade of femininity” which often...
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Exposing the Anomalies and Absurdities of North Korea
Frederick Paxton is situated in a remote Black Sea port on the coast of Batumi, Georgia when we first speak. He tells me that he felt compelled to visit because “there are lots of strange and wonderful...
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The World’s Most Beautiful Cave?
Where on Earth?Benagil Sea Cave, PortugalGPS Coordinates: 37° 05’ 12.4” N / 8° 25’ 25.6” W Tucked away in the folds of southern Portugal’s rugged coastline lies one of the most beautiful natural...
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Introducing Hood: The Digital Salon for Modern Millinery
In his foreword to Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones (the accompanying book to the 2009 V&A exhibition), John Galliano writes, "You shouldn’t ask, 'Why do you wear a hat?' What you should really...
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Why New Doc 'Almost Holy' is Brutal but Integral Viewing
It was 2012 when American documentary filmmaker Steve Hoover first came across Gennadiy Mokhnenko – the Ukrainian vigilante pastor around whom Hoover's latest film Almost Holy is centred, who has made...
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The Female Nude As Seen by Pop Pioneer John Wesley
"Many people find my pictures funny which I rather enjoy. I think much of my intent is humour," John Wesley, Jack to his friends, said in 1976, according to an essay by Dan Fox. This September, the...
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An Abbreviated History of the Decorated Male
It's important to note that it's only within the past few of centuries of western fashion that menswear has become synonymous with the tropes of masculine dress we might think of today. Even this...
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When Playboy Magazine Endorsed Radical Design
Architecture historian Beatriz Colomina first encountered Playboy magazine’s unexpected legacy in modern architecture by accident. She was interviewing several architects in order to book them for...
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The Resounding Sartorial Wisdom of Nora Ephron
Watching Everything is Copy, the documentary about the late Nora Ephron directed by her son Jacob Bernstein, one is struck by just how, well, incredible she was. The child of quite mad, alcoholic...
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What AnOther Loves This Week: A Pop Art Perspective
Are Fendi Bag Bugs your guilty fashion pleasure? Us too. Which is why this tremendous turtleneck from the Italian house – adorned with multiple iterations of the chic critters – tops our new season...
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Scenes of Pride and Glory at the Rio Olympics 2016
I wonder if, when the Olympic Games first began in 776 BC, the Ancient Greeks recognised the legacy that they would leave behind. Taking place at the foot of a shrine to Zeus, the god of the sky and...
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Three of Instagram's Most Awe-Inspiring Photography Feeds
August 19th marks 177 years since the French government purchased a patent to the invention of the daguerreotype, legitimising it and all of its future iterations in the process. Though nowadays...
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Agent Provocateur's Sarah Shotton On Her Library of Erotica
Sarah Shotton is precisely the sort of woman that you would hope to creatively direct a lingerie brand like Agent Provocateur: she's fabulous, and sexy, and wonderfully, remarkably open about sex and...
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Peter Blake's Amazing Alphabets
Peter Blake, the godfather of British Pop Art, has long fostered a fascination with alphabets – an extension of his interest in nostalgic childhood ephemera and Victorian and Edwardian graphic...
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The Soundtrack to My Life by Warpaint's Theresa Wayman
Theresa Wayman is one-quarter of Warpaint, the band whose rousing siren sounds have bewitched music-lovers since their formation way back in 2004. This September sees the group release their latest...
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Six Weird and Wonderful Artists' Habits
The artist and his eccentricities is a notorious coupling. It could even be said that peculiar habits are an essential element to the creative pursuit –by breaking with societal norms, the artist...
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How Perfumer Tom Daxon is Revolutionising Modern Fragrance
The first time that Tom Daxon visited Grasse, an area indisputably credited as the fragrance capital of the world, he was four years old. He was visiting the laboratory of Jacques Chabert with his...
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In the Studio With Set Design Duo Isabel + Helen
Ever since they graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from London's esteemed Chelsea College of Arts in 2012, set design duo Isabel Gibson and Helen Chesney, AKA Isabel + Helen, have nudged at the...
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