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Meeting Valentina, the Chicest Queen in Drag Race History
Valentina. A name that has been on the fashion industry’s lips ever since the drag performer, whose real name is James Leyva, first appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race in March of this year. Seven episodes...
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Is Calamity Jane the Campest Western Musical of All Time?
Calamity Jane was a pistol-wielding frontierswoman living her life in the wild west of 18th-century America, and, rumour has it she was also an alcoholic, illiterate, sex worker. So why the historical...
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Ten Places to Visit While You're in Venice for the Biennale
Venice is always jam-packed, either with stereotypical tourists, or with creative connoisseurs nesting around the Grand Canal for the Biennale, which alternates between a focus on art and architecture...
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Drawings of Vintage Matchbooks from a Bygone Hollywood Era
Post-prohibition America retains an effortless sense of style. The optimistic decadence and the illicit thrill of free-flowing alcohol as immortalised in Fitzgerald novels and Woody Allen films seems...
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Performer Kembra Pfahler Wants Us All to Change the World
“In 1949, Joseph Campbell wrote a book about the journey of the hero, about this path through the belly of the beast that people can take to have a personal, spiritual transformation. These days, for...
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Behind-the-Scenes Polaroids of Public Image Limited’s Heyday
In late 1978, one year after the tumultuous break up of the Sex Pistols, John Lydon (AKA Johnny Rotten) launched his new band, Public Image Limited, featuring his childhood friend Jah Wobble on bass,...
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A Contemporary Take on the Proverbial Rose-Tinted Glasses
Cleo Sunglasses, Tens Optical-grade Italian acetate, Japanese wire frame, strong five-barrel gold hinge, signature tinted lens For the more cynically inclined among us, witnessing unshakeable optimism...
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The Japanese Designer Who Influenced Louis Vuitton Cruise
Who? For the avid fashion fan, the most exciting attendee at Louis Vuitton’s Cruise 2018 spectacular – held at the Miho Museum an hour outside of Kyoto – wasn’t the usual gaggle of A-list starlets, it...
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Ten Lesser-Known Facts About Photographer Juergen Teller
Since rising to fame in the early 90s, German image-maker Juergen Teller has continued to delight viewers with his idiosyncratic, uncompromising brand of photography, whether shooting personal series...
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The Multi-Disciplinary Designer Making Interiors Sexy Again
She is a designer by name but, in reality, London-based Sussy Cazalet’s practice spans furniture, interior architecture, event design and art direction – and her willingness to merge them all is...
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A Photographer's View of Greenpoint, and Its Local Residents
On moving to a new part of New York City, photographer Lorenz Schmidl took to the streets with his camera as he travelled to work, intent on documenting the neighbourhood. “Greenpoint, in Brooklyn, is...
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Simon Porte Jacquemus on Marseille and a Mother’s Love
France is a fractured nation. Much like the election of Donald Trump in America and Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, the rise of Marine Le Pen and the sympathy towards her far-right...
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Interiors Inspiration Courtesy of Vintage IKEA Catalogues
Most of us are familiar with the cheap, chic Scandi staples IKEA is renowned for. We’ve all walked anti-clockwise through a spiral of flat-pack bookshelves and printed textiles, dreaming of a life more...
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Seven Ways to Style a Shirt, Inspired by 90s Ad Campaigns
When asked which garment she would have liked to have been responsible for creating during a rare interview in 2012, Rei Kawakubo declared, “I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt.” And it...
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What to Do and See During This Year's Photo London
If you’ve long been planning a trip to England’s busy capital, you could do worse than to time it for this weekend, when all four corners of the city (or so it seems) will be with overrun by creative...
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Jewellery Inspired by Kate Moss' Most Treasured Possessions
Kate Moss and Ara Vartanian first met five years ago, when the super visited the brilliant jewellery designer at his studio in São Paulo after falling in love with a tanzanite and diamond ring of his...
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The Emerging Designer Bringing Back Fashion as Spectacle
Richard Quinn is fussy about florals. He’ll take them gutsy, a bit off and like 60s upholstery on steroids. But ditsy? Not a chance. You’ll know that, of course, if you’ve seen Quinn’s Central Saint...
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Captivating Celebrity Portraits from Camera Press’ Archives
In 1935, Tom Blau, a young Hungarian Jew, fled his native Berlin for London. Once there, he wasted no time in pursuing his love of photography, first securing a job as a freelance image researcher...
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Lovers Gaia Repossi and Jeremy Everett on Their New Book
It’s no secret that creative collaborations between lovers can transcend the realm of simply productive and enter that of the exquisite. Pairings like Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, Josef and...
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Eight of the Best Objects for Sale at DSM’s Open House
It takes a special kind of store to open up its doors to some of the most creative talents across art and fashion to produce collaboratively designed merchandise. But then, of course, Dover Street...
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