If Paintings Could Text
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793ifpaintingscouldtext.tumblr.comIf paintings wielded iPhones, what would their text messages sound like? This Happy Monday, we find out, courtesy of...
View ArticleThe Illustrator Series: Cédric Rivrain
Kate Moss in Alexander McQueen for NuméroIllustration by Cédric RivrainThe first thing that grabs you when considering the fragile, ethereal portraiture of French artist and illustrator, Cédric Rivrain...
View ArticleAll You Need to Know about Teen Movie Style
Attention class, today’s lesson will be all about teen movie style. Dissecting over 200 cult teen movies, from Footloose to 10 Things I Hate About You, Beyond Cluelessis the documentary that everyone’s...
View ArticleMenswear A/W15: Smiling Boys
Raf Simons A/W15Photography by Magdalena ŁawniczakFashion week can seem a remarkably sombre affair, with runways calling for sober expressions and an agitated audience rushing from show to show (maybe,...
View ArticleMenswear A/W15: The Beauty of Necks
Bottega Veneta A/W15Photography by Andy MassacessiNeckerchiefs at Bottega Veneta, embellished collars at Neil Barrett and tiny, golden ladybirds sitting around the neckline at Ferragamo; this season,...
View ArticleAnOther's Favourite Films for a Snow Day
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968Winter Storm Juno has just set up prodigiously snowy shop over the northeast of America, meaning residents of New York and Boston have been confined to their homes. So, what...
View Article10 Things You Might Not Know About J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger and his sister Doris in Florida© Katherine HuberJ.D. Salinger was just 32 when he wrote The Catcher in the Rye, the novel that would secure his place in literary history. To date the book...
View ArticleNew York on Film: Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn O'Brien & Petra Collins
Who? Leo Fitzpatrick (artist and actor of Kids and The Wire) reads Rudyard Kipling in severe staccato. Jeffrey Deitch (ex-director of MOCA) constructs a house of cards with artist Tom Sachs, journalist...
View ArticleParis A/W15: Collections and their Cult Film Counterparts
Maybe it wasn’t the slit scan techniques featured in John Whitney’s pioneering 1961 short Catalog that Kenzo’s creative directors Humberto Leon & Carol Lim had in mind when piecing together their...
View ArticleMenswear A/W15: Hands and feet
Emporio Armani A/W15Photography by Andy MassacessiGloved, fur-cuffed, clutching at luxury holdalls – there are plenty of occasions where hands became a standout feature of A/W15 menswear collections....
View ArticleFive Good Things: Pastel Wildlife to Balancing Sculptures
Tswana Herd from Aerial Abstracts© Zack SecklerOur aim every wednesday is to inspire with our favourite finds from the web, filling the second half of your week with eye candy and sophisticatedtools of...
View ArticleMenswear A/W15: Gruesome Glitter at Givenchy
Givenchy A/W15Photography by Magdalena ŁawniczakThe A/W15 Givenchy menswear show is a moment set to go down in beauty history. A collection that incorporated Riccardo Tisci's souvenirs and references...
View ArticleMenswear A/W15: Kris Van Assche on Dior Homme
Dior Homme A/W15Photography by Magdalena ŁawniczakThe ultimate exercise in formality, Kris Van Assche's A/W15 collection for Dior Homme saw his boys dressed in an assortment of thoroughly decorous...
View ArticleSkulls & Bones at the Grant Museum of Zoology
The Grant Museum of ZoologyPhotography by Chris RhodesI once dissected a rat: put nails into its pink paws and pinned it to a wooden board, made a shallow incision in its throat with a scalpel, and,...
View ArticleRubens and His Legacy: Cézanne to Lucas
Peter Paul Rubens, Pan and Syrinx, 1617© Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister/Ute BrunzelPeter Paul Rubens is known as the "prince of painters". From hunting scenes to...
View ArticleChristian Dior Couture Through the Eyes of David Luraschi
Christian Dior Spring 2015 CouturePhotography by David LuraschiDavid Luraschi's photography is usually a bizarrely fascinating assortment of people's backs (see: his Instagram). But, in honour of...
View ArticleThea Porter: Spirit of the 70s
A model in the window of the shop. She wears a silk chiffon dress with Iraqi carpet print by Sandra Munro. Greek Street, London, about 1976Billowing silk silhouettes, high-neck blouses and swirling...
View ArticleA Jellyfish Planter
Aerial jellyfish planter by Cathy Van HoangNo creature exemplifies the oxymoron of deadly beauty better than the jellyfish. Ethereal, elegant, quiet, lethal – they prowl the seas, their poisonous...
View ArticleMenswear A/W15: The Artists That Inspired the Collections
While mottoes and textures were the theme that permeated the London collections, in Paris and Milan there were more than a few designers who incorporated their favourite artists into their shows. From...
View ArticleSchiaparelli Spring 2015 Couture: An Atelier's Collection
Schiaparelli Spring 2015 CouturePhotography by David LuraschiWhen Schiaparelli's Creative Director Marco Zanini left the house at the end of last year, no successor was announced. So, rather than a...
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