Columns on fashion, culture and ideas
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    Ten Tales | Gerald DeCock, Hair Stylist and Artist

    Hair stylist and artist Gerald DeCock is a long-term resident of the Chelsea Hotel where he lives in a much coveted rooftop apartment. Carrying out the interior design himself, his living space is a visual kaleidoscope completely covered...

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    Ten Tales | Mike Figgis, Polymath

    Born in Carlisle and brought up in Nairobi until the age of eight, 62-year-old Mike Figgis is a creative polymath. Originally playing keyboards for Bryan Ferry’s first band, Gas Board, he went on to direct plays as well as performing and...

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    Guest Lovers | Sarah Lerfel, Owner of Colette

    Sarah Lerfel is the co-founder of the Parisian fashion and style boutique Colette, along with her mother Colette Roussaux. Her formidable vision as creative director and buyer has made this cutting-edge concept store renowned worldwide....

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    Ten Tales | Edoardo Ballerini, Actor

    Better known as junkie Corky Caporale from The Sopranos, and the quick-tempered chef Udo Cropa in the 2000 indie hit Dinner Rush, New York-based actor, writer and director Edoardo Ballerini has appeared in over 40 films and television...

  • Swamp Bones by Sally Mann, 1996, from the series Deep South

    Exhibit A | Sally Mann's Swamp Bones, 1996

    The black roots in Sally Mann’s Swamp Bones certainly seem more carcass than tree. But a cadaver, with its mass of rotting flesh flopped belly down like the ones Mann’s photographed elsewhere, seems a far too physical comparison....

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    Reader | Peter Stitson's Blog

    Peter Stitson was the art director of Dazed & Confused magazine for five years and has worked with clients including Levis, Nike, Penguin Books, Edwin, Canon, Rankin and Oxfam. More recently he has become involved in screen-printing and...

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    Vintage Style | Jane Birkin

    British actress and singer Jane Birkin gained permanent iconic status in 60s and 70s culture thanks to her role in the cult film Blow Up, and her much publicised marriage to French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. In this summer’s film...

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    In the Cut | The Colour Purple

    The autumn collections saw fashion, and designers, in humble mode – armies of models stepped out in subtle, minimal and restrained pieces, an act of penitence during a sartorial zeitgeist that has avoided frippery and flamboyance...

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    Ten Tales | Emma Gibson, Installation Artist

    The daughter of creatives and the sister of hippies, Emma Gibson is a 29-year-old London-based installation artist, or, as she puts it, “a doer of general creative things.” She deals with often controversial, intimate psychological issues...

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    The Spin | Hamid Karzai, Afghan President

    Once labelled “the most chic man in the world” by Tom Ford, Afghan president Hamid Karzai has a lot to live up to. Since taking power shortly after the US-led invasion in 2001, Karzai has of course had many pressing matters to attend to...

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    Quotes of Note | Tilda Swinton

    Tilda Swinton is one of the finest polymath’s around: she is an accomplished actress both on screen (as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton and Emma Recchi in I Am Love) and on stage, a stunning model (starring in Pringle of Scotland’s recent...

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    Culture Talks | Angelbert Metoyer, Artist

    The New Orleans-born artist Angelbert Metoyer is perhaps more deserving of the term “shaman” than most who are described as such, exploring what he calls the “hidden language of religion” across a broad variety of ritualistic processes and...