Kiernan Shipka: "The Next Generation Can Make a Change"
In celebration of the new generation of actresses determined to leverage their fame for the greater good, Ben Toms and Robbie Spencer’s fashion story, published in AnOther Magazine S/S17, featured...
View ArticleFive Documentaries to Change the Way You Think This Spring
Copenhagen: a city where everything is so calmly in-place and meticulously designed, from your hotel’s colour scheme to the barista’s haircut, that it can feel either soothingly evolved or eerily...
View ArticleThe Love Story Behind Rick Owens' Furniture
“No one makes me lose it like the Hun.” So read the opening words of Rizzoli’s new book, Rick Owens: Furniture, which not only catalogues the remarkable pieces created under the designer’s name, but...
View ArticleTongue-in-Cheek Photographs Subverting the Power of Branding
We live in a world of Instagrammable must-haves, limited-edition runs and hotly coveted collectables. When skatewear brands compete with high fashion houses to claim the sweet spot at the top of our...
View ArticleTattoo Artist Tati Compton on Instagram and the Occult
There are a few things Instagram loves, but essentially it mostly comes down to cool people, clever imagery and human flesh. It’s rare to see someone manage to propagate this holy trinity as...
View ArticleDecoding the Wardrobe of Fassbinder’s Murderous Maria Braun
In 1978, just four years before his drug-induced death at the age of 37, Rainer Werner Fassbinder made The Marriage of Maria Braun, the film that would finally grant the prolific German auteur the...
View ArticleA Short History of the Most Underrated Piece of Outerwear
Let’s be honest: the cape is not a piece of outerwear that one would normally reach for when considering what to put on in the morning. Long associated with swashbuckling crusaders and comic book...
View ArticleYara Shahidi: “Together We Can Change the Big Picture”
In celebration of the new generation of actresses determined to leverage their fame for the greater good, Ben Toms and Robbie Spencer’s fashion story, published in AnOther Magazine S/S17, featured...
View ArticleAn Up-Close Look at Rodin's Extraordinary Sculptures
If ever you’ve spent an afternoon in Paris’ Musée Rodin, the mansion in the French capital’s quiet seventh arrondissement which has, since 1919, been dedicated to housing and memorialising the work of...
View ArticlePaul Smith’s Guide to Living Well
Paul Smith is widely accepted to be one of the most affable people working in fashion, and also one of the most balanced. Ask anyone, and they’ll attest to the fact. He begins each day with a swim,...
View ArticleSeven Films That Marked a Pivotal Moment in 1960s Cinema
Fondazione Prada is dedicated to educating modern audiences about Italy and Europe’s cultural heritage, particularly in regard to experimental art forms. In 2013 its artistic director, renowned art...
View ArticleEpic Photos Taken Along the Length of China’s 'Mother River'
Having left China for five years to study photography, Yan Wang Preston returned to her homeland with an altogether new perspective – both her eye, and her ideas, had changed irrevocably. The result of...
View ArticleFive of the Best Vintage Stores on Instagram
Secondhand shopping can so often be an arduous process of rifling through mountains of suspiciously stained acrylic knitwear and rails of chintzy tea dresses that appear as though they have been...
View ArticleThe Pop-Cultural Power of the Automobile
So commonplace is the car in contemporary culture that to look upon it as anything more than a means of travelling from A to B requires an extra special enthusiasm. Yet ever since it first came into...
View ArticleVivienne Westwood on How to Beat the Rotten Financial System
“I’ve always been an activist; I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer. When I was doing punk, I was just horrified by the way the world is run by such terrible people, people who torture other...
View ArticleSurreal Photographs of a Giant Mirror Reflecting the Horizon
16 years ago, photographer Murray Fredericks wandered away from his campsite adjacent to a vast salt lake in Australia and found himself alone in the darkness, bathed in an unfamiliar state of serenity...
View ArticleThe Modernist Architect Who Helped to Build Venice
Architect Carlo Scarpa stood between the ancient and the contemporary, the precious and the commonplace. He was born in Venice in 1906, and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 14,...
View ArticleGertrude Bell: The Female Adventurer that Time Forgot
Who? Writer, traveller, archaeologist, diplomat, spy – Gertrude Bell was at one time described as “the most powerful woman in the British Empire”, her legacy acknowledged as being more profound than...
View ArticleInside Ashley Hicks' Universe of Interior Design
“Lord Byron lived in the main house for 18 months, but not very happily,” explains interior and furniture designer Ashley Hicks, as he begins a grand tour of his home at the Albany. “He had a love...
View ArticleThe Most Glamorous Air Freshener Imaginable
Perfume Gun, Frederic Malle Russian Nights, 500 ml It’s decadent to use anything more haute than a Glade plug-in to freshen the air of one’s home. To use a contraption formulated by world-renowned...
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