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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants at Chanel Cruise
“With the political situation in France I thought it was good to remind people that the Ancient Greeks invented democracy,” Karl Lagerfeld said following the showing of his Cruise collection in Paris,...
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Dreamy Summer Snapshots Transporting Us to the Beach
Taken over the summer of 2016, Akila Berjaoui’s sun-streamed photographs of bathing beauties are steeped with the heady colours of late 70s and early 80s photography. Quoting Riviera-rulers Slim Aarons...
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Lily McMenamy on How Mime School Saved Her
“To me, a hero is someone who puts another’s needs before their own, even knows what the other person needs before they do. I study at this physical theatre and mime school called Jacques Lecoq and my...
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Ten Fantastic New Books to Inspire You This Spring
Spring is an unpredictable season; one minute the sun is shining and you’re wondering whether it’s time for an Aperol spritz, the next you’re lamenting the loss of your umbrella. The trick to surviving...
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The Memphis Group Artists who Collaborated with Valentino
There were two themes central to Pierpaolo Piccioli’s A/W17 Valentino collection show: “Victoriana, and Memphis,” the designer explained backstage. Victoriana strikes a familiar note on the catwalk:...
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Five Time-Honoured Tips for Taking Care of Your Feet
“Among civilised peoples there are few who have really healthy feet… What is the cause of this shocking fact? Firstly, too many people know nothing about their feet, and secondly almost everyone shies...
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How to Avoid the Clichés of Traditional Travel Photography
The disposable cameras that were once ubiquitously used to document holidays of yore have been replaced, for the most part, by limitless filtered and hashtagged images shared via Instagram. But in...
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Inside Milan’s Perfectly Preserved 1960s and 70s Barbershops
Concealed behind unassuming shopfronts across Milan are countless perfectly preserved traditional barbershops – retro salons which still maintain all of their original interior design touches from the...
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Where the Photographic Moment Becomes a Subject in Itself
It makes perfect sense that artist Barbara Probst studied sculpture before moving into a photographic medium, as her work – albeit two-dimensional in the traditional sense – explores the...
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Talking Heads Bassist Tina Weymouth’s Electrifying Style
Tina Weymouth has always been more than ‘the girl in the band’. As the singular bassist in frontman David Byrne’s art-pop group Talking Heads, and later in Tom Tom Club, Weymouth’s sonic funkiness and...
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Raf Simons’ Wearable Works of Art
Raf Simons x Robert Mapplethorpe T-Shirt 100% cotton In 1985, Robert Mapplethorpe took a photograph of Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. In it, Byrne wears a white granddad-collar shirt and a black...
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Larry Sultan's Iconic Pictures From Home, 25 Years On
Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home was first published in 1992, the culmination of a decade-or-so of travelling up and down California’s coastline, with the intention of creating a portrait of his...
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Observing Utopia at Prada Resort 2018
Modernism. That was Miuccia Prada’s stated inspiration for her latest show, one she grudgingly labelled Resort. “I never wanted to write ‘Cruise’ – I don’t like the word,” she stated, frowning. “For...
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Chloë Sevigny on Buying Vintage and Power Dressing
As fashion folklore has it, a 17-year-old Chloë Sevigny was bunking off school when stylist Andrea Linett came across her hanging out next to a New York newsstand “in her signature corduroy overalls”...
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Five Artist Collectives on the Art of Collaboration
In most media – from film and theatre to music, TV and fashion – creative collaboration is the norm. In the art world, however, prestige tends to cling to the individual. A new tome by by Ellen Mara De...
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Ten Things You Might Not Know About Mr Valentino
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani was born on May 11, 1930 in Lombardy, Italy. Before his retirement from fashion in 2008, he created a world of haute couture and ready-to-wear imbued with sartorial...
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Dirk Braeckman’s Bewitching Display for Venice Biennale
It’s easy to lose yourself in the act of looking when you’re in front of an image by Dirk Braeckman. There’s an energy reverberating in the darkness of his photographs that draws you into another...
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What We Bought at the Dover Street Market Archive Sale
“Dover Street Market’s ‘beautiful chaos’ – as Kawakubo herself described it back then – has transformed the retail market in much the same way as her label Comme des Garçons has the fashion aesthetic,”...
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The Bavarian King Who Built Castles Worthy of Wes Anderson
Though he was deposed from his throne and considered crazy, King Ludwig II of Bavaria left behind an extraordinary architectural legacy when he died in 1886. An inveterate dreamer, he is most famous...
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Joseph’s Creative Director on the Beauty of Looking Undone
Joseph creative director Louise Trotter’s fashion career started early. Beginning with “changing how my dolls used to dress,” Trotter tells AnOther. “My grandmother was a seamstress and she really...
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