Short Fiction: Brown Lake
“Frank had been swimming ever since he could remember. His parents had owned a house down by the waterfront in Mosman, inside Sydney’s great Harbour…”
Browsing: The Lifestyle
Pretty Much Everything: Inez & Vinoodh
Known for their iconic images, Dutch photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin (a husband-and-wife team, just in case you didn’t know), have defied genres for two decades with their radical mix of subversive portraiture and fashion imagery, masterfully navigating between the absurd, the beautiful and the surreal, presenting a twisted take on glamour which constantly transgresses the boundaries of contemporary image making.
When Larry Met BlackBerry
Larry journeys to Dubai, to the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, for the exclusive launch of a new collaboration between Porsche Design and BlackBerry – and, of course, pulls out his iPhone in front of the designers…
Giving Doll: BillyBoy* and Mdvanii
One of the largest private collections of vintage haute couture, owned by BillyBoy*, a contemporary of Andy Warhol and the creator of the iconic Mdvanii doll, is being auctioned by Christie’s in London this December.
Matthew Campbell Laurenza
“My job is to make people happy. I want people to put my jewellery on…
Fairy-God, Fashion-Mother
An exhibition of collage drawings by artist Hormazd Narielwalla, Savile Row’s Dege & Skinner’s artist…
Wild Ashish Ski Wear
Ashish is a long term collaborator with Topshop, and they return for AW11 with a…
Nineteen and Fighting
Unless you are over 90 you will not have personal experience of fighting in a World War. To help us understand, Brain Hemingway shares extracts from the World War II diaries of his father Paddy, fighting in the RAF.
The Broken King
The sun periodically burned through the blanket of cloud so I chanced an outside table at one of the cafés on Swain’s Lane. I sat, looking enviously over at the well-heeled diners tucking into mountainous salads at Kalendar and Café Mozart.
Wolf in Women’s Clothing
Loulou de la Falaise, bohemian, former muse to Yves Saint Laurent, synonymous with the designer’s 70s era entourage of creatives and beautiful people, died on November 5th, aged 63.
The Lanesborough’s Cigar Luncheon
As I sit down and reach for my napkin, a silver platter arrives before me with 12 Flor de Canos arranged clockwise upon it. I steal four o’clock with a murmur of thanks and fire it up with quiet elation. Crikey, this is something special.
Something Old, Something New
I am intrigued by blends of old and new. Modern on its own is entirely dull and narrow-minded to me, but old on its own isn’t enough either. So, I couldn’t be more charmed by the launch of the fluoro range of the classic Cambridge Satchel.