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  • Inspirational image: Alexis Mabille

    Menswear Confidential | Alexis Mabille S/S11

    Alexis Mabille reveals the inspiration for his most recent menswear collection.

  • Isabelle Huppert in the film White Material

    Culture Talks | Isabelle Huppert

    Isabelle Huppert is one of the most talented and enigmatic actresses of our era, and has starred in some of the most challenging films made in the last 30 years. Some of her many unforgettable roles include a nymphomaniac nun in Hal...

  • The Player

    Menswear Confidential | Trussardi S/S11

    Together with images from Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas, the easy-to-wear, chic 90s look of Robert Altman's The Player and Oliver Stone's Wall Street inspired the Trussardi S/S11 menswear collection. We picked a short clip from The Player to...

  • Wolfgang TIllmans at The Serpentine Gallery

    In Pictures | Hero to Hero

    This week one of the world’s most loved musicians, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), plays in Australia and artists young and old collaborate in an exhibition to honour the late Alice Neel. Elsewhere, rising star of jewellery Karl...

  • Dsquared2

    Menswear First Look | Milan Menswear S/S11: Day 4

    We say goodbye to Milan on the last day of fashion week and look forward to more visual treats in Paris over the next few days.

  • Bettina Buck, Booth (Basel), 2010

    Culture Talks | Bettina Buck

    Bettina Buck is a German artist whose work profoundly disorientates the viewer by redefining the relationship between artworks and the spaces they are exhibited in. She presents pieces that seem curiously disparate or out of place, and...

  • Milan

    Menswear First Look | Milan Menswear S/S11: Day 3

    Another day of eye-catching collections from Milan menswear fashion week.

  • Tilda Swinton

    Menswear Confidential | Pringle S/S11

    Clare Waight Keller reveals her inspiration behind this season's Pringle collection: "I really wanted to experiment with the 'familiar' in a man's wardrobe and turn it on its head. The idea was to completely deconstruct the fabrication of...

  • Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni at Pittsburgh G20 Summit

    The Spin | Nicolas Sarkozy

    "A world where there is an election every six months – I feel for you: horrible, horrible, horrible!” So French president Nicolas Sarkozy is reported to have told Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld after awarding him the Legion of Honour. And...

  • A Wedgwood Dress Sword (1820) in the Weapon’s Room of Blythe House, London

    Exhibit A | A Wedgwood Dress Sword

    There are two tiny Wedgwood cameos embedded in the hilt of this sword. In ivory against a washed-out blue, they depict a weapon-wielding duo. The first is the Archangel Michael holding his spear aloft, with his vast wings outstretched; the...

  • Salvatore Ferragamo

    Menswear First Look | Milan Menswear S/S11 Day 2

    Our highlights from the second day of Milan fashion week include shows by Salvatore Ferragamo and Vivienne Westwood.

  • Dolce & Gabbana

    Menswear First Look | Milan Menswear S/S11: Day 1

    On the first day of Milan menswear, Photographer Francesco Brigida shows us the beauty of the backstage.