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  • Girl with hoola hoop at Piazza Vittoria, 2009

    In Pictures | Eastern Promise

    This week Liberatum invites you to travel to Istanbul for a jam-packed three days at the Istancool cultural festival, Hannah Barry Gallery takes up its summer residence in a sculpture-filled car park in Peckham, Bethnal Green town hall is...

  • Jon Bock

    Culture Talks | John Bock

    John Bock is a globally-renowned German artist whose bizarre performance-based interventions engage the audience in his uniquely surreal universe. For his current show at The Barbican he has created a strange mobile utopian living unit...

  • A Victorian circus

    Menswear Confidential | Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci S/S 11

    The Victorian circus and Riccardo Tisci's personal circus, which consists of his family, his models and his gang set the tone for his menswear collection this season...

  • A rare image of Nayenezgani

    Menswear Confidential | Mihara Yasuhiro S/S11

    Henry David Thoreau's book Walden: Or, Life in the Woods was the source of inspiration for Mihara Yasuhiro's S/S11 collection.

  • Dior Homme

    Menswear Confidential | Dior Homme S/S 11

    The Korean film Printemps, été, automne, hiver... et printemps directed by Kim Ki-duk is the inspiration for the S/S 11 Dior Homme collection. Here we show a clip from the film, which follows a Budhist monk and his attempt to teach a young...

  • Bernhard Willhelm

    Menswear First Look | Paris Menswear S/S11 More from Day 3

    On Saturday at Paris Menswear fashion week Bernhard Willhelm presented a collection of ethnically inspired fluorescent menswear worn by futuristic warriors. Some of the looks were presented on models wading through bath foam, swinging...

  • Inspirational image: Rick Owens

    Menswear Confidential | Rick Owens S/S11

    Rick Owens takes us into the visual world that inspired his most recent menswear collection.

  • Dior Homme

    Menswear First Look | Paris Menswear S/S11 Day 3

    Saturday’s menswear show schedule included highlights from Raf Simons and Dior Homme. Both houses presented collections in grand surroundings, with Raf Simons mainly focusing on the colour whites and Kris Van Assche on black. The...