Kamel Hamadou
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Kamel Hamadou at Hermès

When Hermès, the 175-year-old French luxury house synonymous with timeless elegance launched the silk square or “Carré” in 1937; few could have predicted how a simple 90 by 90 cm square of silk twill would attain such must-have status...
AnOther Magazine A/W10
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Dick Page: Makeup Artist

The path from butcher’s boy in Bristol to one of the world’s most in-demand makeup artists (and star of his own Marc Jacobs campaign) may be the stuff of fashion fairytale but Shiseido’s artistic director Dick Page remains...
Prada S/S13
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Ippolito Pestellini, AMO Architect

“In an ideal home, nothing you do can go wrong” once cooed the British doom-mongerers of pop, Black Box Recorder. Watching the A/W13 Prada men’s show, you could almost hear the delicious irony of those lyrics....
Alejandro Cardenas
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Alejandro Cardenas, textile designer for Proenza Schouler

Tumblr as couture: that was the reaction upon seeing the astonishing finale dresses from Proenza Schouler’s S/S13 collection. In a show predicated on the themes of “collage” and “randomness”...
Sasha Pivovarova, Vogue Italia April 2008, Photography by Ma
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Bob Recine, Hairstylist

To get an understanding of the topsy turvy, endlessly inventive work of provocative American hair stylist, Bob Recine, consider Gaga’s Boudoir, his free standing collaboration with Lady Gaga for the 2011 Barneys Christmas windows...
Acne Studios Tokyo
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Andreas Fornell, Architect for Acne Studios

Few contemporary fashion brands have taken Andy Warhol’s multidisciplinary approach to the arts and applied it as successfully as the Swedish design collective, Acne. Co-founded by Jonny Johansson as a design, film and advertising agency...
Patricia Cadolle
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Patricia Cadolle of Alice Cadolle, Corsetière

In Paris’ 1st arrondissement, just across the road from the Chanel flagship store lies the storied atelier of Alice Cadolle, the last of the custom corsetières. Custom made lingerie may be the ultimate hidden luxury and for the finest, women go to
Kate Phelan
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Kate Phelan

The day Kate Phelan handed in her resignation at British Vogue to join Topshop was met with a crisis of confidence for the usually unflappable stylist...
Yves Saint Laurent 40 years
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Thierry Dreyfus, Lighting Designer

Insiders columnist Kin Woo speaks to acclaimed lighting designer Thierry Dreyfus about his work for Jil Sander, Comme des Garçons, Yves Saint Laurent and the Strasbourg Opera...
At Kathryn Sargent's studio
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Kathryn Sargent

On Savile Row, that fabled London street where change is often measured out in milimetres of fabric; 38-year old bespoke tailor Kathryn Sargent may be its clearest sign of the changing times...
Aitor Throup at Dover Street Market
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Aitor Throup at Dover Street Market

Menswear designer Aitor Throup has never limited himself to the structures of a conventional runway show. He continues his exploration of new ways of documenting his creative process with
Sir Hardy Amies oversees fittings at 14 Savile Row
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Austin Mutti-Mewse at Hardy Amies

In a year in which Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, there’s been renewed interest in the 67-year old house of the late Sir Hardy Amies...
Mr Pearl's Atelier
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Insiders No. 50: Mr Pearl

To celebrate the fiftieth edition of our Insiders series, we visit the atelier of celebrated corsetier Mr. Pearl
Kris Ruhs: Landing On Earth at the Wapping Project
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Kris Ruhs

The romantic notion of the tortured, obsessive artist is one of the oldest clichés in the book, but would that explain why Kris Ruhs, the German-born ‘magpie maker’ rises at 7am every day to work at his cat-infested studio in Milan until 10pm?
Meadham Kirchhoff S/S13
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Tony Hornecker, Set Designer

Walking on to the set of Meadham Kirchhoff S/S13 men’s presentation was like walking into a particularly psychedelic take on My Own Private Idaho or a hazy daydream come to life...
Kenzo A/W12
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Kenzo's Humberto Leon and Carol Lim on Jean-Paul Goude

Widely acknowledged as the most imaginative visual pioneer of the late 20th century, Jean-Paul Goude has been responsible for some of the most iconic imagery in pop culture to date...
Behind the scenes of KM3D-1
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Jerry Stafford, Première-Heure

A conversation with Jerry Stafford, writer, creative director at the French production company Première-Heure and consultant to Tilda Swinton (not to mention keen ornithologist) is like surfing a wave...
John Skelton
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John Skelton, LN-CC

A disused boxing gym in East London may seem an unlikely site for one of the boldest retail experiments in recent years. But that’s exactly what Late Night Chameleon Café or LN-CC as it’s better known represents...
Michael Bruno
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Michael Bruno, founder of 1stdibs.com

A tagline like “the most beautiful things on earth” may seem like an impossible ideal, but with the online antiques marketplace, 1stdibs.com – that seems just about right...
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
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Baz Luhrmann on Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversa

AnOther speaks with legendary film director Baz Luhrmann about the current Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations at the Met...
John Gosling
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John Gosling, DJ

Insiders meets with DJ John Gosling, longstanding collaborator of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen...