Columns on fashion, culture and ideas
  • The Ditch at The Old Vic

    Upcoming | Breaking Out

    Events this week reinvent normal rules of presentation and context: Sean Scully expands and adapts his existing work for Timothy Taylor; Melissa Auf der Maur launches...

  • Olivier Polge

    Insiders | Olivier Polge, Perfumier

    With its unusual core of violet leaf underscored by woody chypre notes of patchouli, bergamot, oak moss and labdanum; Balenciaga Paris, the long awaited first olfactory creation from Balenciaga under Nicolas Ghesquière’s reign, beguiles...

  • Mies van der Rohe chocolate sofa

    AnOther's Lovers | Chocolate Sofa

    Architecture and fashion design student Lilli Maunula posted a chocolate sofa by German-American architect Mies van der Rohe on AnOther Loves this week.

  • Hussein Chalayan A/W10

    In the Cut | Space-Age Sculpturalism

    Designers came face to face with fashion's final frontier this season, with space-age sculptural pieces that owed more to 2001: A Space Odyssey than to A/W10. Hussein Chalayan gave us swirling tube dresses, embellished with intergalactic...

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

    AnOther's Lovers | The Picture of Dorian Gray

    This week, London writer and curator, Francesca Gavin loved Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, designed by John Morgan.

  • Gisele Flashing the Chateau Marmont

    In Pictures | The Chateau Marmont

    In his first London solo exhibition, showing at the Oblong Gallery this month, photographer Matt Jones reveals the Chateau Marmont hotel in all its classic decadence...

  • The Heartbeat of a Bird, by Rob Wynne, 2006

    AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You | AM Homes

    Taken with artist Rob Wynne’s glass works, the novelist AM Homes wrote this short story as a fictionalised interpretation his work. The tale, Tears of Glass, inspired by Wynne’s Teardrops – oversized glass globules, attached to the...

  • Babel at Sadler's Wells

    Upcoming | Celebrating Difference

    This week, our selection of cultural events focuses on the works that explore the subject of identity in dance, art and video from London to China, via Cannes.

  • Abby Lee backstage at the Chanel Cruise show

    Collections Digest | Chanel Cruise

    With Chanel’s latest cruise collection, Karl Lagerfeld firmly proved that high fashion equals major fun – sun or no sun. St Tropez was the choice of destination for the event. “The town remains beautiful, untouched and has always been...

  • Photography by Hedi Slimane

    The Sound of Style | Hedi Slimane

    The work of Hedi Slimane needs no introduction – the ambience of his language and the “silhouette Slimane” developed at Yves Saint Laurent and Dior Homme continues to reverberate through the streets today. By the end of 2007, at which time...

  • Giambattista Valli in Gareth Pugh

    In Pictures | 40 Years of Browns Fashion

    This year Browns celebrates 40 years since Joan Burstein CBE and her husband Sydney founded the brand. In a special exhibition curated and set designed by Simon Costin, its history is seen through the fashion that it has supported...

  • Jacob Zuma

    The Spin | Jacob Zuma

    South Africa has a long tradition of charismatic and colourful leaders. Everyone knows Nelson Mandela; and FW de Klerk has also gone straight into the history books. But both men can learn a thing or two from...