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New Film American Honey Paints a Wild Portrait of US Youth
Back in May, a 48-year-old rapper called E-40 scored his first hit record in a decade. “Everybody got choices,” the hip-hop veteran explains on the track, Choices, leading the listener through a series...
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Capturing the Ephemeral Beauty of Adolescence
The problem facing the young, said Quentin Crisp, is always the same: ‘how to rebel and conform at the same time’. It’s this complex, contradictory framework of anxiety paired with abandonment, that...
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Lessons in Dressing and Decorum from Cult Heroine Betty Blue
“She was a flower with a psychic antenna and a tinsel heart. Not many girls could dress as casually as she did,” says the dulcet voiceover of handyman and would-be writer Zorg, remarking on his lover’s...
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How Vulgar! Fashion's Ever-Shifting Periphery of Bad Taste
In the trailers for TV’s Project Runway, the model, television personality, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer and occasional actress Heidi Klum declares fashion’s most brutal...
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A Photographic Exposé of Professional Dominatrixes
The role of a female-dominant male-submissive relationship has been present in culture since the 18th century. Yet, the term Dominatrix wasn’t forged until the 1960s, when it was used to describe a...
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Found Photographs of People Knitting Through the Ages
The habit of knitting will evoke personal memories for anybody who’s ever received a lovingly crafted but slightly out-of-shape Fair Isle Christmas jumper, or struggled to complete a wearable scarf....
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Seven Fabulous Fashion Week Sculptures
"I put pressure on myself to do better every season," explains Marie Valognes, aka mise en, the artist who has been transforming our favourite runway looks into abstract sculptures over recent seasons....
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Essential Components of the Ultimate Countryside Cabin
Earlier this year, when summer felt less like a distant memory, I drove with two friends to their cabin in the Redwoods just north of San Francisco. Set beside the Russian River in a thicket of trees,...
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"Fashion Rules are Stupid": Iris Apfel Talks Mixing it Up
“I’ve always been fascinated by spectacles. As a child, I always used to collect things, and I used to go to flea markets and wander around. Every time I saw an interesting pair of spectacles I bought...
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The Nature of Men: Hermès in Tokyo
The love affair between Hermès and Japan is an old, passionate and faithful one. Like all great romances, it started innocently enough when, in 1911, Prince Kan’in Kotohito, the Commander-in-Chief of...
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The Behind-the-Scenes Polaroids of a Star Set Designer
The past 25 years for production designer Happy Massee have included their fair share of colourful memories, not least of them stints working with David Lynch, or creating the set for Jay Z's 99...
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Gray Sorrenti on the Magic of Spanish Summer Holidays
“The spot I go to in the summer called Deia is the most magical place. It’s in Spain, Majorca and my family has a house there. We have these little casitas that we stay in. When you’re there it’s like...
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Postcards From Fashion Week's Best Venues
Fashion week is a time that can feel uniquely frenzied: as schedules become increasingly jam-packed and hoards of photographers make entering a show venue something of a challenge, it can be easy to...
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How Hari Nef Has Been Empowered by Virginia Woolf
"Mrs Dalloway is my favourite book. I like the way Virginia Woolf captures everyday life. I feel like my most intense moments are often when I’m crossing the street on my way to get cigarettes, versus...
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Ten Weird and Wonderful Facts About Artist Caravaggio
Over 400 years after his death, the paintings of Italian Baroque pioneer Caravaggio remain as affecting, groundbreaking and influential as ever before. He painted with an inimitable sense of realism,...
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Retracing the Creative Legacy of the Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party has long been subject to heavy misrepresentation. As their white contemporaries became the poster children for counterculture, it was black activists who suffered the brunt not...
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Charting the Legacy of Cult 1970s Band, Big Star
The musical legacy of lauded 1970s Memphis band Big Star has been shown in documentary and echoed in the music of bands from REM and Teenage Fanclub up to today’s teenage beat-freaks the Lemon Twigs,...
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Ellsworth Kelly's Serene Snapshots of Architectural Details
“Photography for me is a way of seeing things from another angle,” writes Ellsworth Kelly in the introductory essay which opens his new book, Photographs – a series of minimalist black and white shots...
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When Maggie Cardelús and Julie de Libran Joined Forces
The French house of Sonia Rykiel was fashioned upon the pillars of family and free-spirited femininity, which have suffused its jolie sensibility since it was established in 1968. For Autumn/Winter...
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How John Waters Championed a New Kind of Beauty
In 1989, filmmaker John Waters, fresh from the success of his musical comedy, Hairspray – which saw the Pope of Trash break through into the mainstream – set about making Cry-Baby, a musical ode to the...
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