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Montreal
Gather your friends for a makeover and chit-chat at colourful new Montreal beauty refuge, Le Hideout. Located in Griffintown, an area renowned for its creativity and old warehouses, the salon—a modest 650 sq ft and geometric in shape—offers an...
Los Angeles
Los Angeles nail bar Color Camp is a crisply-styled salon where the design aesthetics make as much a statement of candy-coloured as the bold designs applied to your nails. Located in the city's Fairfax District, architect J. Byron-H...
Lifestyle
Simplicity, in itself, is a complex concept. More so, realising simplicity is often a much more difficult task than achieve than something more elaborate, involved. Just ask Apple, whose 'simple' products involve millions of dollars of research and...
Mexico City
When I was a kid, the only royal in a barbershop was the proverbial 'right royal fu ... '. Barbers were butchers with scissors instead of knifes. Then all these hipster barbershops started cropping up, harking back to the golden era with their...
Los Angeles
The impact that Instagram has made on the fashion industry, and the rise of the 'influencer' is no surprise — as mannequins pile up on landfills, those who're flogging the goods continue to seek real-life alternatives, in real-life (well, almost)...
The Edit
Not content with stopping at the vaudeville staging of previous works Popcorn Venus and Guy Bourdin-esque glamour of Reconstituted Meat Slices, Juno Calypso has taken her penchant for creating elaborate sets to the next level with new series The...
London
The Clerkenwell area of London has a proud tradition of creativity since the industrial revolution, when the former residential neighbourhood was transformed as the centre of the capital's printing, jewellery and watchmaking trades. Today, stalwarts...
Publications
Love your football? Tired of reading stories about backseat blow-jobs and hotel romps in red-top newspapers? Want to know more about what a footballer's life is really like, and grab a bit of that lifestyle for yourself? Yeah sure, there are games...
Journal
I don't need to tell the internet that in terms of endearing images, you can't go wrong with a cat. The one at the start of fashion brand D.Efect is a particularly beautiful one, and it takes a moment to realise that what makes it so special is...
Journal
You'd have thought it a bit chilly in Finland to lie about wearing nothing but a pair of shoes and a coat of paint, but the models helping out Helsinki-based illustrator Janine Rewell and shoe designer Minna Parikka on their recent collaboration all...
Publications
Need a break? Run down? Fed up? Pissed off? Feeling discontented, dehydrated or generally discombobulated? We hear you, and to help get you back on form is Oasis: Wellness, Spas and Relaxation, a guidebook to the world's most sumptuous, luxurious...
New York City
The Paris Review, co-founded by the late George Plimpton in 1953 and edited by him for 50 years, has enjoyed some pretty successful collaborations. The quarterly published a Jack Kerouac short story two years before On The Road hit the shelves, for...
Journal
“We’ve never quite felt this welcomed anywhere else,“ admits Réka Pasztor Turak of ‘live global, experience local’ map platform, Local’s Lore. And she’s right. There really is a special essence to Antwerp, one that means you feel at...
Journal
Martina Spetlova is a designer and innovator who is fighting for a more ethical world of fashion and textiles. Her luxury hand-woven accessories and jackets are designed and made with transparency, ethics and sustainability in mind, but her design...
Stuff Crush
Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill has been an industry leader since the early 1960s, his architectural and urban design practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura having completed an impressive 1,000 projects in more than 50 countries; each of...
City Notes
You're walking along Dom Pedro V—a street between Lisbon's Bairro Alto and Príncipe Real neighbourhoods, lined with some of the city's more modish bars and eateries—when a crowd of people holding a tall glass of pisco sour come into...
Dispatches
Another year, another A'Design Award & Competition. The coveted design award—which also happens to be the world's largest and most influential—has opened the gates for its 2019—2020 edition with an early call for entries. And, if you think you...
Dispatches
Comprising 12 bedrooms that span 1,680 square metres of opulence—marble bathrooms, private chef and chauffeur, the world’s largest television (Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 4-103), a Steinway grand piano, Brunswick billiard table and bulletproof...
Dispatches
“It is one of the most phenomenal restaurants this country has,” says Tom Kerridge of Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage, “yet one of the least known.” Having been run by chef David Everitt-Matthias and his wife Helen for more than 30...
Dispatches
Spanning 7,500 kilometres of Greece’s 16,000 kilometres of coastline, the Greek Archipelago is vast, with figures on the number of islands it comprises at some 6,000; 227 of which are inhabited. Which is a lot of islands, many of which are packed...