Bibiana Fernández and Luis Venegas for Candy issue 4
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Luis Venegas

They called it "the Candy effect" – the exact convergence in popular culture circa late 2010 where the staid, archaic rules of gender were well and truly broken and a brave new world opened up. The catalyst was the launch of the world’s first
Donna Anna Concept Design with Swarovski elements by Kate an
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Rodarte: Don Giovanni

Sex, lust, betrayal, death and a hefty dose of supernatural revenge at the end: these are the ingredients that make Mozart’s 18th century opera, Don Giovanni one of the most celebrated. AnOther catches up with collaborators Rodarte...
Jess Hallett
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Jess Hallett, Casting Director

“Sarah Burton really wanted Kristen to play that role,” explains casting director Jess Hallett of the decision to give the pivotal closing slot for the recent McQ spectacular to iconic supermodel, Kristen McMenamy...
Dylan Jones
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Dylan Jones

Ever since Beau Brummell declared: "If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable,” coining the term "dandy" in the process; every significant sartorial...
Stella McCartney eveningwear presentation A/W12
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Blanca Li, Choreographer

Maybe it’s in the genes, but Stella McCartney sure knows how to put on a show. In a thrilling fashion season that boasted not only strong collections but also genuine fashion moments, Stella’s special London presentation (and her first in the
Jane Shepherdson
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Jane Shepherdson

Every Friday night Jane Shepherdson, CEO of Whistles leaves the airy Victorian townhouse in North London that is Whistles HQ and heads to a grimy Hoxton studio to practice the flying trapeze. She grins when she tells me this, “There’s something
Louis Vuitton Pulp canvas Weekender Handbag
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Curator Pamela Golbin on Louis Vuitton - Marc Jacobs

Ahead of the opening of the Louis Vuitton - Marc Jacobs exhibition in Paris this Friday, AnOther's Insiders columnist spoke to its esteemed curator Pamela Golbin...
Anna Dello Russo by Helmut Newton, 1996
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Anna Dello Russo on Helmut Newton

Mysterious, alluring, divinely decadent, sometimes a little bit cruel and androgynous, yet always entirely in control and defiant – these are the qualities possessed by the women of Helmut Newton’s provocative, erotically charged photographs...
Iris Apfel
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Iris Apfel

You could say Iris Barrel Apfel has got the science of dressing herself down to a fine art. With her antique Chinese robes, masses of clanking costume jewellery, and topped off by her owlish frames, Apfel is a fashion icon to rank alongside the
Eric Wilson
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Eric Wilson, The New York Times

“What was most confounding about Mr. West’s behavior, after years of obsessive study of the industry, was that he demonstrated very little understanding of how he might actually be perceived.” That was just one choice nugget from Eric Wilson’s pithy
Sarah Mower
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Sarah Mower

Her recent citation with an MBE for “services to the Fashion Industry” only confirmed to the wider public what the British fashion industry has known for years: few have done as much to ensure the rude health of London’s fashion designers than Sarah
Susannah Frankel
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Susannah Frankel

Insiders speaks to fashion writer and AnOther Magazine fashion features director Susannah Frankel
Laetitia Crahay and Theodora
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Laetitia Crahay on Motherhood

Whether sporting a pair of bunny ears rendered in Lesage embroidery or a coquettish veil of Chantilly lace; Laetitia Crahay, artistic director of the 75-year-old millinery house Maison Michel and head of accessories and jewellery at Chanel is her
Philly Thomas at work in the studio
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Philly Piggott, studio director for Panos Yiapanis

As one of the most influential stylists of his generation, Panos Yiapianis’ aesthetic is an intuitive extension of his own personal obsessions and interests; which he expresses in editorial commissions for the likes of AnOther, Love, Italian Vogue
Agnès Boulard
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Agnès Boulard

If there were rules for being the perfect La Parisienne, what would they be? Who better to ask than the French fashion journalist, Agnès Boulard, who in her alter ego of Mademoiselle Agnès has marked out a distinctive territory as an authoritative
Peter as Cindy, 1982
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Peter Hujar

Lauded by the singer Antony Hegarty as “one of the 20th century’s greatest, if unsung photographers”, Peter Hujar (1934-1987) roamed the streets of downtown New York after-hours in the late 1970s and 80s, documenting its untamed margins: the freaks
Jae Choi
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Jae Choi, The Collective Shift

The times, as Bob Dylan sang it, are a-changin’. And while the fashion industry as a whole can be slow to embrace change, not so Jae Choi, founder of visionary creative agency, The Collective Shift...
Bruce Weber talks about his new favourite film, Weekend by B
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Bruce Weber on New British Cinema

Bruce Weber opens up to AnOther about his love of British cinema and his new favourite film, Weekend by British director Andrew Haigh, released next month...
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Rodarte & Catherine Opie

What to make of the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte? Consistently America’s most intriguing designers, Kate and Laura take obsessions and minuscule fascinations from their lives – anything from the redwood forests of California to Japanese horror films,
London Fashion Week - J. W. Anderson S/S12
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London S/S12: Craftsmanship at JW Anderson & Lou Dalton

A return to craftsmanship was a theme explored during the menswear day at London Fashion Week. It was there in JW Anderson’s 9am show, which testament to his highly acclaimed womenswear showing earlier in the week...
Louise Wilson
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Louise Wilson

Professor Louise Wilson OBE, Course Director of the MA Fashion course at Central Saint Martins is regaling me with tales from the raucous farewell party CSM threw (hosted by Katie Grand, a former student) to celebrate the move to the £200 million