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Cameron Silver, Decades
Cameron Silver© Douglas FriedmanIt’s the day after the Met Gala, America’s most glamorous big ticket event and speaking on the phone from Los Angeles, Cameron Silver is effusive in his praise: “I was...
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Arlene Shechet: Ceramic Meets Paper
Arlene Shechet, Legend, 2012Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.Who? Best known for her sculptures in ceramic and paper, American artist Arlene Shechet has garnered a great deal of...
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Who Will Win the Turner Prize?
James Richards, still from “Rosebud”, 2013Courtesy of the artistThe announcement of the shortlist for the 30th Turner Prize was made last week, and, as ever, it was met with a strident wall of comment....
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Six Rules of Céline Fall 2014
Lessons in CélineIllustration by Clym EverndenWithout Phoebe Philo, we wouldn't have understood the appeal of a furry flat, the importance of a polo neck, the potential of laundry bag check. At Céline,...
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Your Fruity Five A Day
Five a DayA lovely big bunch of fruit is redolent of sunshine, holidays and good health. So in that spirit, for this week's Good Things we explore fruity goodness beyond the bowl in your kitchen. With...
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Robert Mapplethorpe: Art's Hustler
Self Portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1980Photography courtesy of the Tate / National Galleries of ScotlandWith his chiseled good looks, leather jackets and wild curls, Robert Mapplethorpe was the...
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Tales of Old Soho
Unknown girl in cafe, by John Deakin© The Photographers GalleryIt's remarkable that Soho should have acquired the reputation it has, bordering as it does on fashionable Mayfair, aristocratic St James's...
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Halston & Warhol: An Iconic Friendship
Halston and Andy Warhol, 1979Courtesy of The Andy Warhol MuseumClad in matching black turtlenecks, Halston and Andy Warhol were the ringleaders of the 1960s and 1970's social scene. In many ways they...
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The Endless Possibilities of Paper
Méduses Lumineuses by Géraldine GonzalezCourtesy of the artistPaper is one of the world’s definitive materials. Books, letters, paintings, magazines – everything really good starts with paper. Yet in...
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A House of Tiles
A House of TilesToday feels like the first day that we can say, without crossed fingers or one eye anxiously strafing the sky for a lumbering grey cloud, that summer is definitely on it’s way....
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Mods & Rockers: Fifty Years On
Mods and rockers, 1964Photography by David McEneryIn 1964, on the beaches of Brighton and Margate, amidst a sea of leather jackets, parkas, long hair and white socks, one of Britain’s most violent and...
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Sunaina Sethi talks Wine and Spice at Trishna
Nandu Varuval at TrishnaPhotography by Neil WissinkConvention has it that Indian food isn’t well accompanied by wine. A sweet white at a pinch perhaps, though most certainly not red. But sommelier...
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Remembering Louise Wilson OBE
Louise Wilson's SketchpadLouise Wilson OBE is unanimously acclaimed as the most extraordinary and the most demanding of all figures teaching fashion. Head of the Fashion MA Course at Central Saint...
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Remembering Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt, Untitled, from Porträt, 1983© Michael SchmidtOn Saturday May 24, the photographer Michael Schmidt, best known for his bleak and unsentimental photographs of post-war Berlin, died after...
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Brilliant Breakfasts
Yellow Breakfast, by Fabienne Plangger© 2012–2014 Fabienne PlanggerAccording to Oscar Wilde, “only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” Perhaps he had been to one too many breakfast meetings....
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Donald Drawbertson: Instagrammer Extraordinaire
Flamingos for Giles Deacon S/S15Illustration by Donald DrawbertsonIf one needed further evidence of fashion’s new love affair with Instagram, then the introduction of Instagrammer of the Year at this...
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The Sick Rose: The Grotesque Beauty of Early Modern Medicine
A Viennese woman depicted during the latter stages of cholera in the first European epidemic in 1831Courtesy of the Wellcome Library, LondonWho? Dr. Richard Barnett’s The Sick Rose: or Disease and the...
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Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman
Maya AngelouPhotography by Chester Higgins JrAs far as remarkable women go, Maya Angelou was truly exceptional. The inspirational author, poet and activist sadly passed away yesterday, putting a final...
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The Scrunchie Revival
Rag & Bone Pre-Fall A/W14Once upon an 80’s film, the scrunchie was considered the epitome of style. From Heather Chandler’s symbolic red scrunchie in cult classic Heathers (1988) to Madonna’s...
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Best of the West End: Bibendum
Oysters RockefellerPhotography by Neil WissinkIn 2008 Bibendum was declared the “Most Consistently Excellent Restaurant” at the Tatler Louis Roederer Restaurant Awards. In keeping with this...
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