Boy In Blue: Louis Wise Breaks Down His Obsession With One-Tone Dressing
I feel like I should be writing a defence of uniforms, but we already think they’re the best, don’t we? Whenever I read a Q&A with someone very stylish, it gets to the bit about their personal look and the
Free Like Me: Louis Wise On The Art Of The French Exit
There’s one liberty which has long troubled Louis Wise, and which possibly reveals the extent of his very serious problems. When are you free to leave a party?
As Issue 55 Of 10 Men – Future, Balance, Healing – Launches Today, We Bring You Louis Wise’s Clinical Epiphanies
On the first Monday of lockdown, in late March 2020, I twisted my ankle. I’d been sitting at my desk in my flat, where I live alone, when I got up very suddenly without realising one leg was riddled with
Ten Meets Alex Foxton, Dior Menswear Designer Turned World Renowned Artist
Alex Foxton is talking me through the various responses he gets to his art. Some people have had tattoos inspired by his pictures, he says with a smile – one man has had two of Foxton’s drawings inked on his
He’s All That: Louise Wise on Bold Fashion Choices (Good and Bad)
Whenever I think of the bold and the beautiful, I have two thoughts in quick succession. The first is more of a question: is it always an “and”? Does being bold make you beautiful, and vice versa? Certainly, I think
The ‘Joy’ of Home: Louis Wise on Editing Your Possessions
The first thing to say about my home is that it has a kind of flickering, here-and-there relationship with the 21st century. Sure, it contains a laptop and a TV and a microwave, but considering it’s stuffed with all sorts
Ten Meets Jenkin van Zyl, The London-Based Artist With a Different Sort of Paint Stroke
Sitting in his studio in the bowels of London’s Royal Academy, the artist Jenkin van Zyl is going over the details of his day’s outfit. Components include pointed piggy ears, a black matador hat, a black tabard, a black cloak,
From Issue 50 of Ten Men: Life Drawing with Erotic Manga Artist Gengorah Tagame
Slave Training Summer Camp Bloomsbury, central London, is mostly linked with literary and cultural names such as Virginia Woolf and Duncan Grant – elegant, awkward, very English; bohemian but still buttoned up. How fun, then, and how bracing to meet Gengoroh
From 10+ Issue Two: Manga and Me – Ten Minutes To Read About Grown-Up Comic Books
'Bride' by Gengoroh Tagame A few years ago, I got a birthday present from my best friend that was out of the ordinary. Usually, our gifts to each other were part grannyish memorabilia, part boring 21st century: William Morris mugs or
From Issue 62: A Portrait of Celia Hempton, The British Artist Exploring the Beauty of Human Intimacy
top by James Davison Studio, jeans by Vetements, boots by Miu Miu Celia Hempton’s working day always starts with breakfast – “A really good one,” emphasises the 37-year-old British artist. It entails coffee (“a really good coffee”), and then porridge and
Wish You Were Where? 10 Ways To Have Your Most Fashionable Summer Yet
Winter begins to fade away, and the question is more and more pressing: where will you spend your holidays? Or rather, let me rephrase: what’s your summer Insta Story? In 2019, the idea of the vacation as some kind of