The Quiet Renown of a Comme des Garçons Wallet
CDG Classic Leather Wallet Red leather, 110mm x 85mm, made in Spain There are few items as ubiquitous within the fashion industry as the classic Comme des Garçons wallet: an item that is simultaneously...
View ArticleA Five-Point Guide to Contemporary Artist Tom Sachs
If you’ve recently watched Frank Ocean’s much-lauded new visual album Endless (Blond’s immediate predecessor), you’ll already be au fait with the work of bricolage artist Tom Sachs; in it, Ocean builds...
View ArticleLe Labo Founder Eddie Roschi on the Scent of a City
"Some beautiful things in life are hard to get," explains Le Labo co-founder Eddie Roschi, a man whose ability to translate emotion into fragrance has seen his brand ascend into great acclaim since its...
View ArticleBrilliant Things To Do in September
New York Stories at the Waldorf Astoria, Berlin: September 1–7, 2016Trailblazers from Jean-Michel Basquiat and superstar Debbie Harry to the inimitable Mick Jagger star in New York Stories at Berlin's...
View ArticleHow Oscar Wilde Paved the Way for Gay Rights in the Arts
The story of Oscar Wilde is a brilliant, tragic and complicated one; a tale that, despite many efforts, can’t easily be transformed into simple fridge magnet epithets stating that “We are all in the...
View ArticleWay Bandy's Guide to Living and Looking Beautiful
Before Kevyn Aucoin, François Nars and Bobbi Brown, there was only one name on the glossy, iridescent lips of anyone who was anyone during the glamour defining eras of the 70s and 80s: Way Bandy. And,...
View ArticleInside Björk's Immersive New Digital Exhibition
Björk has long considered technology to be “an enabler” – a “liberating science” which allows her to realise her extraordinary soundscapes in unprecedented new ways. She spoke about this with great...
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves This Week: Decorative Style
The opulently embroidered flora which cropped up in Miu Miu’s A/W16 collection proves that there’s a lot to be said for coordinating your outfit with the wallpaper – especially when the wallpaper in...
View ArticleWhy Neville Jacobs is Fashion's Most Charismatic Canine
Never has the old adage "it's a dog's life" felt more applicable than in the case of the fabulous bull terrier, Neville Jacobs. Should his lauded presence on Instagram, or within the pages of esteemed...
View ArticleWhen Miguel Adrover Became the Downtown Doyen of New York
A stamped dollar bill was the coveted invite to the second A/W00 runway show of Miguel Adrover, the Mallorca-born designer whose lauded debut S/S00 collection featured a Louis Vuitton bag repurposed as...
View ArticleAhmet Civelek's Curious Spoon Paintings
Ahmet Civelek’s multidisciplinary practice makes a strong case for finding inspiration in unusual places. He first began considering the humble spoon as a potential artist’s object at the end of a road...
View ArticleMrs Prada on Fragrance, Logic and Instinct
Miuccia Prada has never given an interview about Prada fragrances before – this is the first time. That’s because, for Prada, perfumes are never an afterthought. Instead, the world of perfume is a...
View ArticleThe Unfinished Manuscript Which Saw Truman Capote Exiled
The shelves of literary history are stacked with unfinished novels, many of them cruelly cut short by their writers' untimely deaths. Then there are those that simply fizzled out, their authors having...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Alliance of Two Fashion Archivists
The Insta-world of ready-to-wear and fast fashion seems to be continuously revolving around the omnipresence of throwaway e-commerce clicks. Naturally, this presents a real challenge in discovering...
View ArticleA Brief History of Chanel No. 5
Folklore decrees that somewhere in the world, each and every minute, of each and every day, a bottle of Chanel No. 5, is bought. It remains at the top of the international best-selling fragrance lists...
View ArticleThe Aesthetic Language of Choreographer Pina Bausch
The late Pina Bausch’s light is one that will never go out: even now, seven years after her death in 2009, the German choreographer’s legacy continues to illuminate audiences from Great Britain to...
View ArticleWhat Not to Miss at London Design Festival 2016
London Design Festival returns to the English capital this month to celebrate its wildly impressive and diverse creative scene – uniting typographic wine tasting, mesmerising colour installations, and...
View ArticleMalick Sidibé’s Spirited Photographs of Dancers in Mali
When Antwerp-based art dealer Roger Szmulewicz began working with Malick Sidibé two decades ago, the Malian photographer was virtually unknown. "When I started nobody wanted it – now they are very...
View ArticleRevisiting the Book that Captured the Radical Power of Jazz
During the first half of the 20th century, America found itself in the grip of jazz, one of the most expressive, original and transcendent of all musical genres. It broke down racial boundaries,...
View ArticleThe Five Unwritten Rules of Communal Bathing
For as long as human beings have walked the face of the earth we’ve had bodies to bathe and dedicated places in which to wash them, and yet for the most part, personal hygiene is an area of everyday...
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