How to Date a Goddess
You have snagged yourself a Valentine’s date with a beautiful, mysterious, curvaceous bundle of trouble. What’s an intelligent, urbane man about town to do by way of preparation? A few words of advice from Lady Lavinia…
Browsing: The Lifestyle
Vegetarian Fashion
Stella McCartney, famous not just for her fashion collections and being Macca’s daughter, but for…
Dead Man’s Patterns
London and New York design agency Sheridan & Co. are to host a series of…
Enter the Innerplace
Who doesn’t love the idea of having privileged access to exclusive parties, restaurants and shows?…
Reading Trends
“Can print and digital coexist in the world of books? I think they are going to have to, to some extent, otherwise we will all be doomed to reading a black tablet and the beauty of the book will be no more.”
Hollywood Costume at the V&A
Our fashion editor Kate Lawson looks forward to the V&A’s ‘Hollywood Costume’ exhibition which will bring together over 100 iconic costumes seen on the big screen from over a century of film-making.
Oddly Specific Style Predictions for 2012
The boutonnière will have a moment, H&M will collaborate with Tom Ford, and plus-fours will have us perplexed. These are just some of our style guru Nick Carvell’s oddly specific predictions for men’s style in 2012…
Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950
Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is to trace the role and evolution of the ballgown over the past 60 years. May 19th 2012 to January 6th 2013.
The Politics of Heavage
“Having previously been the reserve of Ed Westwick and the occasional indie rock band, suddenly it’s cool for chaps to make like John Travolta and expose our ‘heavage’, undoing an extra button on our shirts…”
Ronald Falloon: The Man Who Shot The 60s
When you think 1960s fashion photographers, you think Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, Norman Parkinson, Barry Lategan and Terence Donovan. You probably don’t think Ronald Falloon. His images featuring 1960s models, muses and icons lay in an attic for years.
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…”
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.