The Man Behind Japan's Streetwear Revolution
Who? “Hiroshi Fujiwara is an influencer in the truest sense of the word – he is a true icon of mine,” says Kim Jones, Louis Vuitton’s artistic director of men’s collections. High and certainly not...
View ArticleThe Members-Only Club Making Chess Cool
The adjective ‘cool’ is not one used often to describe a Mayfair members-only club – particularly one which has made chess its unique selling point. That is, unless, you are referring to Chess Club, a...
View ArticleThe Artist Using the Humble Pigeon to Reframe Violence
“My horizon is always a positive one. It is the situation of the world that is full of dangers and promises,” Adel Abdessemed tells me when I ask him about the violence that often permeates his work....
View ArticleTen Long Lost Comme des Garçons Scents Return to Shelves
With a total of 75 perfumes created under the brand’s name since 1994, Comme des Garçons’ creative director of parfums, Christian Astuguevieille, is able to boast an extraordinary body of work. When...
View ArticleIntroducing the Young Designer Transforming Ordinary Clothes
AnOther has partnered with 1 Granary to create a series of Emerging Talent pieces, celebrating some of the most exciting upcoming creatives working in fashion design today.Normal clothes excite Stefan...
View ArticleA Berlin Photography Show Celebrating Freedom of Expression
This weekend marks the arrival of Berlin Gallery Weekend, the anticipated annual event which sees the German capital’s diverse array of galleries showcase exciting artworks from both well-known and...
View ArticleKate Zambreno's 13-Year Investigation into Writing Grief
They say never meet your heroes, but what about your Heroines? Opening the first page of Kate Zambreno’s 2011 book one summer, I was greeted with the dedication “for the girls who seem, as they did in...
View ArticleThe 1950s Technicolour Romance You Need to Watch this Spring
Director David Lean declared he’d put more of himself into 1955 picture Summertime, the cinematic love letter to Venice he filmed and edited entirely on technicolour film, than into any other film he’d...
View ArticlePetra Collins Talks Home and Family Ahead of her New Show
Petra Collins has been shooting images of family ever since she first handled a 35mm camera at the age of 15. Images of her beloved sister Anna, or the alternate family she has created with fellow...
View ArticleThe Strappy Top Designed in Response to British Politics
Wrap strap top, Phoebe English Soft viscose jersey Politics and fashion are, in their own nuanced way, inextricably linked. As Vanessa Friedman wrote for the New York Times in 2016: “In a world of...
View ArticleTen Unforgettable Dance Moments on Film
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche – and the German philosopher would surely have been a great supporter of the International Day...
View ArticleFive Artworks to See at Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Art/Africa
Are white curators able to fully represent the cultural messages in art that mediate black experiences? This was the question that loomed over Fondation Louis Vuitton’s latest exhibition, Art/Africa,...
View ArticleThe Sculptor Fashioning Cacti and Succulents from Stone
Over the past couple of years succulents have become a mainstay in interior design, decorating windowsills, fireplaces and bedside tables worldwide with an array of spikes, leaves and lush green...
View ArticleThe Comme des Garçons Centrefold, Starring Raquel Zimmermann
“I felt it was impossible to make something new if I thought about making clothes in the usual way. So I tried once again, as with the last six collections, to think about not making clothes as such,...
View ArticleA Sparkly Silver Bodysuit Made for the Disco Era
Fine-rib lurex bodysuit, Pinko Viscose 70% Polyamide 15% Polyester 15% The story goes that one New Years Eve at Studio 54, the New York nightclub synonymous with the height of disco, a four-inch layer...
View ArticleBrilliant Things To Do in May
The Events Edit Photo London at Somerset House, London: May 18 – 21, 2017The third edition of Photo London returns to Somerset House at the end of May, with a vast and impressive list of galleries...
View ArticleBrilliant Pictures of People in Cars, Captured in 1970s L.A.
One day in 1970, while out scouting material for a class project, 19-year-old photography student Mike Mandel, began shooting pictures of people in their cars as they cruised around the streets of Los...
View ArticleThe AnOther Guide to Wearing Birkenstocks
Much of our adult lives are spent trying to build the perfect wardrobe, searching for ultimates in everything from brilliant basics to supremely satisfying workout clothes. It can be challenging, and...
View ArticleA Photo Series About the Photographer-Artist Relationship
The history of love/work relationships between artists is a long and storied one, spanning tragedy, romance and intrigue – think Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith; Gilbert and George; Marina...
View ArticleNine Pioneering Artists Celebrating New Africa
Lately we’ve experiencing a surge of creative practitioners who are radically changing the way we in the west see Africa and its peoples. From the striking photography of Kristen Lee Moolman and the...
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