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In this column, AnOther's contributors share their experiences of cities across the globe

  • Jacobsen Petrol Station, Copenhagen

    City Guides | Copenhagen

    For a small city Copenhagen feels grand. Wide streets that accommodate generous bicycles lanes and a flurry of architectural activity in the 18th century has...

  • Arnhem Mode Biennale

    City Guides | Arnhem, the Netherlands

    When one ponders the quirky and ingenious charms that characterise Dutch design, it is impossible to ignore the wellspring of young talent bubbling away in the...

  • View of Tbilisi, Georgia

    City Guides | Tbilisi, Georgia

    Georgia’s rough-and-tumble capital city Tbilisi has been a haven for literati in exile for as long as there have been displaced writers to wax lyrical about...

  • Golden detail Topkapi Palace chamber and Dice Kayek dress

    City Guides | Istanbul Fashion Week

    "European Capital of Culture 2010" – a name given to Istanbul by the European Union this year enabling the city to showcase it's cultural development. Its main...

  • Prypiat

    City Guides | Prypiat, Ukraine

    Prypiat, Ukraine, was evacuated after the Chernobyl explosion spread radiation through the town in 1986. Today, the town remains deserted, surrounded on all...

  • Railay, Thailand

    City Guides | Railay

    On the eve of 'holiday month', we consider Railay, Thailand. A laid-back labyrinth of beaches, cliffs and islands a few hours over the water (or roundabout...

  • Comptoir Mariage Frères

    City Guides | Paris

    American author Ernest Hemingway once said, “Il n’y a que deux endroits au monde où l’on puisse vivre heureux: chez soi et à Paris.” Which translates in...

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    City Guides | Sahara International Film Festival 2nd – 8th May

    A refugee camp in the Sahara desert might seem an unlikely place for an international film festival but this week, Dakhla, a desolate camp 130 miles from the...

  • Rena Lange

    City Guides | Berlin Fashion Week

    Previous Berlin Fashion Weeks have left critics frustrated, but this season was different. Instead of self-defeating comparisons with Paris, the sensibility at...

  • Georgian Fashion Week Show

    City Guides | Georgia Fashion Week

    Georgia’s second ever fashion week (October 22 - 26) was held at the Rustaveli theatre, built by Alexander Mantashev circa 1879. Mantashev’s entrepreneurial...

  • Backstage at the Peter Jensen Resort show

    City Guides | Copenhagen Fashion Week 2010

    Danes are rapt by their fashion week, which is not at all surprising – it is closely attuned to a sophisticated local market, and so generates contagious...

  • Kring Art Centre, Seoul

    City Guides | Seoul Fashion Week

    Everything at the Riviera, where Seoul Fashion Week had arranged accommodations for a few press and buyers was tinged by stale tobacco smoke, yet the...