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As summer has most definitely turned to autumn, seemingly overnight, days spent in denim cut-offs and colourful t-shirts paired with cute open-toe sandals are all but over; at least until next year. It’s sad, but I throw my hands up in...
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The Gorbachev campaign was an anti-alcohol crusade by the owner of the world's most famous birthmark, Mikhail Gorbachev, the then General Secretary of the Communist Party. Known also as the ‘dry law’, the 1985—87 movement resulted in the rise...
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Since its 1904 conception by Danish silversmith Georg Jensen, the eponymous Danish design company has grown synonymous with Scandinavian-designed collections, exceptional craftsmanship, and innovative collaborations. 112 years older, and...
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In an ever-evolving world, a world of change and uncertainty, the masses are caught in a cycle of flitting from one fad to the next. Fashion; music; technology; social media; food or drink. Sure, change can be good, change allows us to experience...
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Ever sat down and thought about the journey your online orders take? The hands; the depots; the planes, trains and automobiles; the shipping containers; the signatures, documentation and international bureaucracy? The voyage from click to...
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The DeLorean Motor Company's DMC-12. A brushed stainless-steel vision of hope and of dreams. Thankfully I'm too young to have remembered its short-lived production (1981-83), but I'm not too young to have missed its most iconic moment; gull-wings...
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Sponsored by The 7th Chamber Hallowe'en is upon us — a time when thoughts turn to the ghoulish, ghastly and downright terrifying things that push our panic buttons. Horror films are designed to frighten the pants off its viewers, but sometimes...
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They say you should never meet your idols. Perhaps you shouldn't email them either. London-based producer Oscar Powell (who releases music under his surname) got in touch with infamously spiky Shellac/Rapeman/Big Black man Steve Albini, seeking...
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You know Liu Bolin. He's the Chinese artist who looks like a graffitied wall. And an aisle of soft drinks down the supermarket. Or a cubicle office. Commencing his chameleon career in 2005, with the genesis of his ongoing Hiding in the City project,...
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What does the 11 year-old son of ice cool Acne Studios creative director/co-founder Jonny Johansson do on his summer holidays? Extra maths homework ... join his friends down the local RPG club playing Dungeons & Dragons ... kick a flat leather casey...
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STRIKE! — a bi-monthly subversive politics newspaper — went viral last year, their Totally Pointless poster designs being put up around London, thanks to a "shadowy art-activism organisation" going under the name of The Special Patrol Group...
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In George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones fantasy books A Song of Ice and Fire, winter is coming and mankind's very existence is threatened by a tribe of horse-riding necromancers and their army of the dead. In the real world, it's the planet's...
City Notes
Owing to the building’s flatiron shape, all guest rooms at Proper's new high-end design hotel for San Francisco boast killer views of the City by the Bay; the property shape-shifting into its surrounds and exuding maximum west coast...
Journal
Beginning his experimentation with graffiti at the tender age of 15, self-taught artist Franck Noto—aka Zest—has honed his singular style over the years that have followed; now one of France’s most celebrated street artists. The...
City Notes
Made up of two spaces and lashings of colour, Like Shop Showroom is located in the southern Russia city—this part of the country's largest and most cosmopolitan—of Rostov-on-Don and attracts local fashionistas and the Instagram set in search of...
City Notes
Spying the Caribbean's dazzling turquoise in the near distance whilst being handed an ice-cold margarita made with Xtabentún—an anise liqueur from the surrounding Yucatán region—you realise here, set between sea and lush jungle, that you can...
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As the latest batch of A'Design Award winners pinch themselves at the realisation they've bagged one of the world's top accolades, and Lake Como preps itself for the mammoth Gala Night and Award Ceremony event set to take place at Teatro Sociale...
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London-based photographer Rachel Molina gives a voice to children Seen But Not Heard through a photographic series that documents the uneasy transitional period from childhood to adolescence; each of the subjects preparing themselves for their...
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“Inspiration without action is bullshit.” Just five of countless inspirational words American artist/designer/life-coach/motivational-speaker James Victore slung together over the course of his OFFF 2018 talk. They are perhaps his five most...
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Fashion pioneers Superdry have gained international popularity as a brand that produces apparel combining the best of Americana and Japanese culture, infusing their collections with a distinct British style. Founded in 1985, today Superdry are...