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The Designer Inspired by Introspection and Intimacy
Why did Andy Warhol wear a diamond necklace under those black turtleneck jumpers? To feel beautiful on the inside – or at least to feel beautiful for himself. Such an introspective sense of pleasure,...
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Decoding the Male Gaze and Colonialism in Classic Cinema
From a young age, Eli Cortiñas has been fascinated by cinema. She grew up in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, with the films of Ida Lupino, Chantal Ackermann and Fritz Lang for company, and soon found that...
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A Visit to Coach’s Vivacious New London Flagship
This year, luxury New York brand Coach – America’s original house of leather – celebrates its 75th anniversary. In spite of this milestone, Stuart Vevers explains that Coach is a brand perennially...
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Annie Hall’s Lessons in Self-Directed Style
“I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member,” quips Alvy “Max” Singer, paraphrasing either Groucho Marx or Freud’s Wit and Its Relation To The Unconscious in...
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When Cecil Beaton Shot Mick Jagger's X-Rated Film Debut
Mick Jagger in his 1960s and 70s heyday was one of the most photogenic human beings on earth; his unconventional beauty, electrifying ability to perform and inimitable style making him the ideal...
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Reflections on the Meaning of Red in Art, Fashion and Film
It can almost seem too obvious at first: vivid red, with its powerful cultural connotations of lust, rage, sin and blood. It can be lazy visual shorthand for directors, designers or writers who have...
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Five of Indie Auteur Jim Jarmusch's Most Unmissable Movies
Jim Jarmusch fans rejoice! Today heralds the arrival of Paterson, the brilliant new film from the visionary indie auteur, to UK screens. Over the course of his four-decade-spanning career, Jarmusch has...
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Sensuality and the Supers: The Lasting Legacy of Herb Ritts
You’ll likely know a Herb Ritts photograph when you see one – they're often black and white, usually taken outside (LA beaches were typically favoured over studios) and always boast a sensual...
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Finding the Beauty in Banger Racing
British social documentary photographer Sophie Green never fails to create intriguing and insightful images, and her latest project, Dented Pride, is no exception. Green has collaborated with LAW...
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The Fashion Romance of Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn
As Truman Capote noted, muses are heard. They are heard every time a poet writes, an artist draws, or a designer drapes. Homer invoked this ethereal sorority at the opening of The Odyssey, and Dante...
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The Indisputable Charm of a Loewe Cat
Loewe Cat Charm Orange and green resin and Napa leather, 4.9" x 3.9" x 1.2" For more than four millennia, cats have fascinated and inspired our own, less poised species. The ancient Egyptians went as...
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Combatting Conservatism with Photographer Ren Hang
Artist Ren Hang, today’s posterboy for nominative determinism, has made a career of photographing phalluses. The most private parts of the human body can be strange and funny things, but this is...
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Deciphering the Wardrobe of Blue Velvet’s Femme Fatale
In 1984, reeling from the critical and commercial flop of his most recent film, an adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel Dune, David Lynch vowed that his next project would be a strictly “personal”...
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The Feminist Artist Who Changed Art History With Latex
Renate Bertlmann might be one of the most controversial artists in feminist art history. In 1978 her artworks scandalised audiences in Germany to the extent that they were banned from a major...
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Undercover Documentary-Making in North Korea
North Korea represents a sort of black hole in our modern world: not a Columbus-style mystery waiting to be solved, but rather an ominous enigma formed by our exclusion from it, the only 120,540 km² on...
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A Photographic Tour of Christopher Nemeth's Tokyo Atelier
First and foremost, fashion designer Christopher Nemeth was an artist. It wasn’t until he was studying painting at Camberwell College of Art during the late 1970s and early 80s that he expanded his...
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Vivienne Westwood's Punk Positivity
As a lifelong member of the Green Party, I can say that getting people to talk about green energy is a Herculean task; Caroline Lucas's occasional appearance on Question Time is about as good as it...
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On-Screen Activism at the London Short Film Festival
“But then of course, I’m free, white and 21,” declared Howardena Pindell in her unflinching spoken word performance at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1980. In this deeply political short piece, the...
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Provocation and Poise: In Praise of Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep spoke in a particularly husky tone whilst receiving her lifetime achievement award at the 2017 Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday evening, claiming to have lost her voice through “screaming...
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