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    Ten Tales | Gerald DeCock, Hair Stylist and Artist

    Hair stylist and artist Gerald DeCock is a long-term resident of the Chelsea Hotel where he lives in a much coveted rooftop apartment. Carrying out the interior design himself, his living space is a visual kaleidoscope completely covered...

  • Mike Figgis

    Ten Tales | Mike Figgis, Polymath

    Born in Carlisle and brought up in Nairobi until the age of eight, 62-year-old Mike Figgis is a creative polymath. Originally playing keyboards for Bryan Ferry’s first band, Gas Board, he went on to direct plays as well as performing and...

  • President Hamid Karzai walks down the carpet as he is welcomed to the Afghan National Police Training Centre Kabul, Afghanistan

    The Spin | Hamid Karzai, Afghan President

    Once labelled “the most chic man in the world” by Tom Ford, Afghan president Hamid Karzai has a lot to live up to. Since taking power shortly after the US-led invasion in 2001, Karzai has of course had many pressing matters to attend to...

  • Angelbert Metoyer

    Culture Talks | Angelbert Metoyer, Artist

    The New Orleans-born artist Angelbert Metoyer is perhaps more deserving of the term “shaman” than most who are described as such, exploring what he calls the “hidden language of religion” across a broad variety of ritualistic processes and...

  • Swamp Bones by Sally Mann, 1996, from the series Deep South

    Exhibit A | Sally Mann's Swamp Bones, 1996

    The black roots in Sally Mann’s Swamp Bones certainly seem more carcass than tree. But a cadaver, with its mass of rotting flesh flopped belly down like the ones Mann’s photographed elsewhere, seems a far too physical comparison....

  • The Power of One by Peter Stitson

    Reader | Peter Stitson's Blog

    Peter Stitson was the art director of Dazed & Confused magazine for five years and has worked with clients including Levis, Nike, Penguin Books, Edwin, Canon, Rankin and Oxfam. More recently he has become involved in screen-printing and...

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    Guest Lovers | Sarah Lerfel, Owner of Colette

    Sarah Lerfel is the co-founder of the Parisian fashion and style boutique Colette, along with her mother Colette Roussaux. Her formidable vision as creative director and buyer has made this cutting-edge concept store renowned worldwide....

  • Emma Gibson

    Ten Tales | Emma Gibson, Installation Artist

    The daughter of creatives and the sister of hippies, Emma Gibson is a 29-year-old London-based installation artist, or, as she puts it, “a doer of general creative things.” She deals with often controversial, intimate psychological issues...

  • Edoardo Ballerini

    Ten Tales | Edoardo Ballerini, Actor

    Better known as junkie Corky Caporale from The Sopranos, and the quick-tempered chef Udo Cropa in the 2000 indie hit Dinner Rush, New York-based actor, writer and director Edoardo Ballerini has appeared in over 40 films and television...

  • Behind the scenes image of Tilda Swinton in I Am Love

    Quotes of Note | Tilda Swinton

    Tilda Swinton is one of the finest polymath’s around: she is an accomplished actress both on screen (as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton and Emma Recchi in I Am Love) and on stage, a stunning model (starring in Pringle of Scotland’s recent...

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    Sustainable Culture | Earth Energy

    A few months back, we caught up with photographer Toby Smith to chat about his photos of illegal logging in Madagascar. Now, following on from his self-initiated Light After Dark series – which captured the UK’s 32 coal-fuelled power...

  • Grasses and Rushes Portfolio Composite

    AnOther's Lovers | Grasses and Rushes Portfolio Composite by Patrick Winfield

    This week’s AnOther Lover is journalist Lucia Davies. Based in London she is a features writer for Twin magazine and a regular contributor to Dazed Digital and the AnOther website. Lucia’s most loved post on AnOther Loves was the Grasses...