Inside Arc: A New Exhibition At The Fashion Space Gallery
There’s something that gets us feeling all mischievous and exhilarated about diving deep into a fashion archive. It’s the element of surprise, the excitement to see iconic moments in history in the flesh. We’ve simply sold our souls to fashion,
A First Look At Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier Exhibition
Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier is not a tribute or a retrospective. It is the exhibition that Azzedine himself began to pull together, and as Carla Sozzani said this morning at the preview: “He wanted to do an exhibition, not about
A Look Inside ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion And The Catholic Imagination’ At The MET
Type 'heavenly bodies' into Google, and the first result is in fact a bridal shop in Beckenham. Which led us to think, is there a better analogy for the MET's latest exhibition, 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imaginiation' than this slightly
The Chelsea Girls Exploded: MoMA Present Andy Warhol’s Iconic Underground Film
A quick internet search of Andy Warhol's experimental 1966 film reveals its polaric reception, even today. A scathing 50% Rotten Tomatoes score and a slap across the chops one-out-of-four from Roger Ebart only tells part of the story however. Ignoring
Ten Minutes: With Loewe Craft Prize Winner Jennifer Lee
“In the world of so much violence and destruction it’s very beautiful to see creativity,” Dame Helen Mirren said through tears as she announced the Loewe Craft Prize today. It was, as Jonathan Anderson put it, celebrating “real people loving
Ten’s To Do: Shape of Light, 100 Years of Photography And Abstract Art
Given the profligacy of images that us fashion types wallow in, it figures that we are perhaps more responsible than most for acquainting ourselves with the history and craft of image making. All clichés aside, the photographs we pander to with our
Virigil Abloh Hosts An Exhibition Of Lucien Smith’s Work At His SoHo Flagship
For his latest act of cross pollinating magic, Virgil Abloh has invited Californian artist and current toast of the American art world Lucien Smith to exhibit his Friends portrait series at Off-White's SoHo flagship. Because what's the point in a store that only sells
Here Are Five Of Our Photography Highlights From This Year’s Hyères Festival
Since 1986, a selection of individuals endowed with artistic talents far greater than we, have converged in the south of France for the esteemed Hyères International Festival Of Fashion And Photography. As the title suggests, the talent hail from every continent, showcasing
Ten Minutes: With A.F. Vandevorst’s Filip Arickx, Ahead Of Their Selfridges Pop-Up
A.F. Vandevorst are celebrating 20 years of Belgian fashion greatness this week, taking up residency at the Selfridges Corner Shop as part of their ‘The Anatomy of Luxury’ project. For the next seven days, an iconic, classic A.F. Vandevorst installation
Ten Questions: With Artist Shimoda Masakatsu
Shimoda Masakatsu is somewhat of an enigma, which, in this day and age roughly translates as there being very little information about him on the internet. What we do know is that he's a man of many talents with an
Niall O’Brien’s ‘Three Cities’ Exhibition Opens Today
For four months in 2016, Irish photographer and filmmaker, and long time 10 collaborator, Niall O’Brien went to live in Santa Clara’s Silicon Valley. What he discovered when he delved into the depths of the city, under the allure of
We Caught Up With Tamsin Blanchard To Talk About The Future Of Design
"If nothing changes the fashion industry will consume one quarter of the worlds annual carbon budget by 2050” according to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation report published in November. But if there's any optimism to be found in such a profoundly
Our Fashion Highlights From This Year’s Salone Del Mobile Fair
Each year, the worlds of fashion and furniture reunite like distant relations for their annual Milan rendezvous. The Salone del Mobile fair is an international celebration of all things chic and beautiful, where aesthetic is the common denominator and the language of
Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer Prize For DAMN
The rise and reign of hip hop at this moment in time is in full effect, full force, and of course, it’s Kendrick Lamar who has been crowned king. The news that Lamar had won the Pulitzer Award for his
Five Things We Learned At The V&A’s Fashioned From Nature Exhibition Preview
Fashion and nature have been pretty much inseparable since the beginning. From the foliage that Adam and Eve intuitively hashed together to protect their modesty in the Garden, to today's leather substitutes made using grape waste from the wine industry, fashion and nature have enjoyed an