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Photographic Pastiches of Vintage Erotica
Eva Stenram examines the act of looking at photography by digitally cutting up existing images – taken from vintage pornography and erotica – and rearranging the original photograph’s compositions so...
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Five Forgotten Female Artists of Abstract Expressionism
It has proved reliable, as a general rule of thumb, that where mass destruction takes place creativity will follow – and never was this truer than in the wake of the Second World War. The chaos that...
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Documenting the 1970s Revival of Teddy Boy Style
With the post-war economic prosperity which swept Britain in the 1950s came a slew of unprecedentedly flamboyant fashions – not least among them the Teddy Boys. Characterised by a ‘Drape’ – a long,...
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Dissecting the Female Identity, One Brushstroke at a Time
How far do you equate the process of getting dressed in the morning with the construction of your identity? For American artist Caitlin Keogh, the parallels are overwhelming; she sees the...
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Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal on her Uncle's Stage Costume
“My great uncle Oliver Messel wore this costume himself, and it fits me perfectly. He was tiny. He was a renowned set designer. I never met him – he died before I was born – but he introduced my...
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Sublime Simplicity Vs. Private Luxury at Bottega Veneta
There are few things more pleasurable in life than acquiring an extraordinary item of clothing – one that has been designed and crafted with the utmost consideration. The Bottega Veneta woman, whose...
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Five Iconic Telephone Moments on Film
Distance and desire drive cinema, so it’s no surprise that the telephone has such an evocative quality on screen, whether it’s the resort of lovers kept apart by circumstance, or an instrument of...
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Surveying the Contents of Susie Bubble's Handbag
Susanna Lau has an abiding infatuation with pastel colours (as her Instagram feed attests), but this season a deeper shade of green caught her eye, in the form of an read more »
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The Women's Collective Behind 16 Years of Feminist Posters
When the See Red Women’s Workshop was first conceived of in 1973, co-founded by three former art students who met after an advert was printed in radical feminist magazine Red Rag, the full extent of...
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Katy England on Creativity, Fashion and Celebrating Women
When Katy England first joined the Dazed family, it was as a door girl, guarding the entrance to the Leicester Square nightclub where Rankin and Jefferson Hack would stage club nights in order to raise...
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Louis Vuitton: Turning Emotion Into Fragrance
Once upon a time, Grasse – a sleepy, Mediterranean town on the French Riviera – was renowned for its tanneries: workshops where Italian hides were transformed into luxuriant leathers to be worn by the...
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An Ode to the Aesthetic of Cult Film American Gigolo
Crime drama American Gigolo was an immediate critical success when it first hit cinemas in 1980, but its ratings had as much to do with the highly sexed insouciance of the film’s protagonist, a...
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AnOther's Highlights From Unseen Photo Fair 2016
Photography has experienced a significant shift of late. With the advent of powerful smartphone cameras, our ability to document the present – from people and places to valuable moments – has increased...
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Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy Share Their Favourite Reads
From their meeting in Los Angeles during the late 1980s to the rambling, raw concrete home they now share on the Left Bank, designer Rick Owens and his partner Michèle Lamy have shaped their own,...
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The Fabulous Retro Scrapbooks of Designer David Hicks
The legacy of influential decorator David Hicks has always loomed large in the life of his son, Ashley. He’s written celebrated books about his father’s epic career, he designs an interiors collection...
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Exploring an Archival Odyssey of Comme des Garçons
When Rei Kawakubo opened her first Comme des Garçons boutique in Tokyo in 1973, the revolutionary retail space – where collections were stored unseen in a backroom – did not contain a single mirror....
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Delving into the Subconscious with Ballen and Carlsen
Audience responses to NO JOKE, a series of enigmatic photo collages by American photographer Roger Ballen and Danish artist Asger Carlsen, divide neatly into two categories; either you'll be curious...
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Fannying Around With Artist Julie Verhoeven
Disclaimer: My first interaction with the work of Julie Verhoeven was in 2002, in the form of her fabric-covered Fatbottomedgirls book, which had somehow made its way into my rural school library...
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