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The History of Women Performing Lesbianism for Men
We’re all aware that we mustn’t judge books by their covers. But should we judge them by their titles? What if a title itself is a fib, or something intended to make us squirm? Such is the way with...
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The Book Re-Examining 90s Fashion’s Most Iconic Moments
The fashion show, we’re told, is the height of expression: a fleeting moment of creativity and movement that creates a context or a rationale around clothes that will perhaps eventually hang on a...
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How One Crime Scene Photographer Waged a War of Awareness
What is it about the Italian mafia? Despite their well-documented violence, cruelty, drug dealing and corruption, mobsters both real and fictional, from Al Capone and the ‘Dapper Don’ John Gotti to The...
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Inside Jean-Pierre Blanc's Dreamy Island Home
For over 30 years, the director at modernist Villa Noailles has propelled fashion, photography and art, supporting the industry and his surroundings by developing an awe-inspiring wonder spot in the...
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Michelle Williams on Making Manchester by the Sea
In her Golden Globes acceptance speech earlier this week – a brilliantly eloquent lambasting of Donald Trump and celebration of Hollywood’s diversity – Meryl Streep spoke of “the privilege and the...
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Lessons in Style and Houseplants from Sex, Lies, & Videotape
In the late 80s a young Steven Soderbergh wrote a script in eight days and, on a shoestring budget, shot a movie that would go on to change the face of 90s cinema. The success of Sex, Lies, and...
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Life at Home With the Fendi Family
When one considers the familial dynasties that hold court within the fashion industry – the Missonis, the Versaces, the Etros, to name a few – there is one whose story stands apart, whose strength...
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Simone Rocha’s Synergistic New Campaign
When questioned on the role a fashion campaign plays in the process of conveying a designer’s communiqué for the season, Simone Rocha summed it up more succinctly than we ever could: “To capture an...
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Where Ancient Artefacts Meet 1980s Beauty Magazines
London-based artist James Springall’s new collage series, The Ancient Art of Beauty, combines two periods of time which are as different as they are compelling. Spreads from 1980s beauty magazines form...
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An Homage to Aestheticism at Alexander McQueen
“It’s Oscar Wilde, it’s military, it’s dandy, it’s aristocratic, it’s romantic,” says Sarah Burton of her Autumn/Winter 2017 men’s collection for Alexander McQueen. “And linking to women’s there’s a...
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The Medici Flamboyance of a Gucci Dress
Embroidered Floral Jacquard Dress, Gucci Sequin flame embroidery, necklace appliqué, hand-embroidered crystal ladybug and lightning bolts Do you ever feel like a Medici heiress crossed with a member of...
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The Women's Networks Leading the Way
Women’s clubs have long existed, and in various forms – from organisations that maintained networks of abortion providers in the USA, or founded schools and libraries for their pioneer communities; to...
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Ten of the Best Sleepwear Moments on Film
Having been deemed suitable attire for the outside world, pyjamas have crowded the catwalks for several seasons now – but for S/S17, designers shared a particular penchant for ultra luxurious boudoir...
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The New York-based Artist Using Her Paintings as Protest
There’s something about the nature of Eve Ackroyd’s latest series of paintings that straddles the realm between dream and waking life. Calm, ethereal figures float above a muted melancholic palette....
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The Rise and Fall of Jobriath, Pop's First Openly Gay Star
When glam-rock star-in-the-making Jobriath, aka Bruce Wayne Campbell — army brat, one-time hustler and former Hair cast member — declared himself the “true fairy” of rock‘n’roll to journalists in 1973,...
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Hypernormalisation and the Cult of Prada
One of the stories often told about Mrs Prada is that, while a student in the 1970s, she was a card-carrying member of the Italian Communist party; rumour has it she would wear Yves Saint Laurent to...
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Style and Substance: The Erudite Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Collins wore many hats, both literally and figuratively. A black and white photograph of her in front of New York’s skyline shows the writer, filmmaker and activist in a wide-brimmed felt...
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Lessons in Love and Leftism from The Way We Were
“One of the stories often told about Mrs Prada is that, while a student in the 1970s, she was a card-carrying member of the Italian Communist party,” writes AnOther’s Olivia Singer in her review of...
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Interrogating the Relationship Between Selfhood and Home
The relationship between women and the home is a complex and storied one; from an early age we’re conditioned to take pride in our surroundings – and yet, the perceived frivolous femininity of...
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Tracing Textile Designer Josef Frank's Colourful Legacy
Who? “Josef Frank is always an interesting subject for an exhibition,” Maria Wiberg, curator of Stockholm’s Millesgården tells AnOther. “He was a multitalented artist and played a special role in...
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