Columns on fashion, culture and ideas
  • A note from Frida Giannini to editor in chief, Jefferson Hack

    Handwriting Analysis | Frida Giannini

    The writing reveals a woman of flair and good taste who is inspired by her creative imagination. However her sense of reality and practical common sense keep her well grounded and judgements are reasoned and well balanced...

  • Panama 1

    In Pictures | Panama City: 500 Years of Dreams and Cruelty

    The old city of Casco Viejo sits on a peninsula jutting out of the Bay of Panama and is approximately half the size of New York’s East Village. It is the home of four churches and two cathedrals. I was seeking the holy grail of Panama...

  • Animated Debate still

    The Spin | The Race is On

    The General Election is around the corner but the biggest political news to emerge over the last few weeks of campaigning is not the Gordon Brown’s sense of humour or David Cameron’s love of the NHS. No, it’s the apparent existence of a...

  • Undercover

    Object of Desire | Undercover Fragrances

    We present an exclusive showing of a film homage to two new fragrances by Jun Takahashi for Undercover in collaboration with Comme des Garçons.

  • Women Beware Women, National Theatre

    Upcoming | Women On Top

    Female artists from Tracey Emin to Cindy Sherman and Phylida Barlow are at the centre of cultural events this week, while the very nature of womanhood is questioned in Marianne Elliott’s stylish revival of Women Beware Women...

  • Leica V-Lux 20

    AnOther's Lovers | Leica V-Lux 20

    Artist and blogger Fabien Montique and the Leica V-Lux 20.

  • Stifle by Kate McGwire, 2009

    Culture Talks | Kate McGwire

    The British artist Kate McGwire employs the moulted feathers of birds to create strangely haunting sculptures that challenge the distinction between nature and artifice. Here she speaks to AnOther about her unique methodology.

  • Iekeline Stange with pancake

    Recipe | Iekeliene Stange on Pancakes

    I'm not quite sure what the quantities are so I just throw flour, milk, and eggs into a bowl and stir them up. (The thickness should be in between French crêpes and American pancakes.) Throw the contents into a frying pan, fry both sides...

  • 0736 Cutler and Gross sunglasses

    AnOther's Lovers | Cutler and Gross Sunglasses

    Felicity Shaw loves Cutler and Gross sunglasses.

  • Julie Verhoeven

    Insiders | Julie Verhoeven, Artist and Designer

    Lascivious, frivolous, playful, at times overtly sexual; the girls (and they are primarily girls) of artist and designer Julie Verhoeven’s surreal world are no shrinking violets. Instead, rendered in elegant, serpentine lines and smudgy...

  • Masoala National Park, Madagascar, August 26, 2009

    Sustainable Culture | Bois de Rose

    Deep in the forests of Madagascar, the periodic but incessant sound of axes meeting wood echoes through the trees. A slow drip feed of rare rosewood timber seeps through the dense forest...

  • Yves Saint Laurent A/W10

    In the Cut | Wimples at Yves Saint Laurent

    Why do nuns always look so good? It isn't the habit, it isn't even the forbidden fruit scenario – it's their wimples. Stefano Pilati framed models' faces at Yves Saint Laurent's autumn collection in fluid black headdresses that cascaded...