Alexander McQueen: Working Process
From Alexander McQueen: Working Process© Nick WaplingtonFor his A/W10 show, Alexander McQueen presented a provocative, outlandish display of distorted shapes, dramatic print and smeared, oversized...
View ArticleThe Advanced Style Colouring Book
From Advanced Style the Coloring Book by Ari Seth CohenIllustration by Ilan Schraer, published by powerHouse BooksLast year photographer and "silver-set" style hunter Ari Seth Cohen published a...
View ArticleMats Gustafson, fashion illustrator
Illustration by Mats GustafsonCourtesy of the artistAs a new fashion season starts – and with it an inevitable deluge of a thousand blurry Instagrams attempting to document it as it happens – a visit...
View ArticleA Tribute to David Frost
David FrostTelevision lost one of its most incisive voices this weekend, when Sir David Frost died of a heart attack while preparing to give a speech aboard the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth. Over fifty...
View ArticleMiu Miu A/W13
Miu Miu A/W13Illustrations by Tom BaxterMiuccia Prada is clever. She offers up the unexpected, she makes her audience think, and she creates clothes women desire. Her A/W13 Miu Miu collection is a...
View ArticleMiu Miu x Venice Film Festival
Still from Le Donne della Vucciria by Hiam AbbassCourtesy of Miu MiuMiu Miu’s series of Women’s Tales captures exactly what the name suggests: stories for women, by women. Each season the Miu Miu...
View ArticleA World of Beads: The Work of Liza Lou
Liza Lou, Kitchen, 1991-1996© Liza Lou, Photography by Tom Powell, Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkArtist Liza Lou must have the patience of a saint. For the past 20 years,...
View ArticleRick Owens on DRKSHDW
Rick OwensRick OwensIn July, Rick Owens opened the first of two temporary stores intended to showcase his DRKSHDW collection. This can be found on Wooster Street in New York's SoHo district, while the...
View ArticleErnie Glam on the Fabulosity of Club Kids
Walt PaperPhotography by Alexis DibiasioBy definition, a Club Kid is: “a group of eccentric, wildly flamboyant young clubgoers who more or less defined New York nightlife in the late 1980s and early...
View ArticleCasey Affleck & Rooney Mara on Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Even the title of David Lowery’s new film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, has an elegiac air. It is a rare film, a western more focused on the delicate, green love of its star-crossed protagonists – played...
View ArticleBurberry Loves Printemps
Burberry Loves PrintempsIllustration by Robert BeckBurberry loves Printemps and so do I, actually. Thanks to Burberry’s pop-up shop – imagine biker-inspired limited edition items – and their ‘Art of...
View ArticleKenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger, Lucifer Rising, 1973Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers Berlin LondonKenneth Anger is one of America most infamous living legends. A true Renaissance man, he has achieved cult...
View ArticleExclusive: John Maybury's Alexander McQueen A/W13 films
An Alexander McQueen show is always a special moment; a precedent set by the late Alexander Mcqueen and followed by his successor Sarah Burton. Extraordinary designs and techniques; unique hair and...
View ArticleJem Cohen on Museum Hours
Filmmaker Jem Cohen’s latest film, Museum Hours, is an aria containing almost no music. This is remarkable, because in his long career Cohen has frequently collaborated with musicians from R.E.M. to...
View ArticleA Cyanometer to Measure the Blueness of the Sky
Cyanometer, 1789This summer, the warmest in a long time, we have been particularly lucky in the number of blue sky days we've seen. Perhaps this is why this week's Most Loved post – a 1789 cyanometer...
View ArticleKlaus Schmidt for Creatures of the Wind S/S14
Klaus Schmidt for Creatures of the Wind“Hail Hyperborea” was the title given to the Creatures of the Wind S/S14 show, referencing Greek Mythology and the spiritual inhabitants of a utopian world of...
View ArticleSugar Series by Emily Blincoe
Red, From Sugar Series by Emily Blincoe© Emily BlincoeThis week's Happy Monday is a sumptuous feast for the eyes: a series of colour coordinated candy photographs by Texas-based photographer Emily...
View ArticleLee Miller in Fashion
Self Portrait by Lee MillerNew York, 1932 © Lee Miller ArchivesOne of the most enduring icons of the 20th century, American-born Lee Miller found fame as a model, photographer, surrealist, and war...
View ArticleAquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep
Juergen Teller, Bjork, Spaghetti Nero, Venice, 2007Venice, 2007The sea has been a source of both fascination and fear since time began, stirring myths and legends and providing the setting for some of...
View ArticleAnne Kurris on Antwerp's Foremost Fashion Department
Presentation, Fashion and Costume Department, Antwerp, 1978Courtesy of MoMuFor someone with a decade-long career at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp, Anne Kurris is...
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