The boutonnière will have a moment, H&M will collaborate with Tom Ford, and plus-fours will have us perplexed. These are just some of our style guru Nick Carvell’s oddly specific predictions for men’s style in 2012…
Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is to trace the role and evolution of the ballgown over the past 60 years. May 19th 2012 to January 6th 2013.
“Having previously been the reserve of Ed Westwick and the occasional indie rock band, suddenly it’s cool for chaps to make like John Travolta and expose our ‘heavage’, undoing an extra button on our shirts…”
When you think 1960s fashion photographers, you think Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, Norman Parkinson, Barry Lategan and Terence Donovan. You probably don’t think Ronald Falloon. His images featuring 1960s models, muses and icons lay in an attic for years.
“Frank had been swimming ever since he could remember. His parents had owned a house down by the waterfront in Mosman, inside Sydney’s great Harbour…”
Known for their iconic images, Dutch photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin (a husband-and-wife team, just in case you didn’t know), have defied genres for two decades with their radical mix of subversive portraiture and fashion imagery, masterfully navigating between the absurd, the beautiful and the surreal, presenting a twisted take on glamour which constantly transgresses the boundaries of contemporary image making.
Larry journeys to Dubai, to the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, for the exclusive launch of a new collaboration between Porsche Design and BlackBerry – and, of course, pulls out his iPhone in front of the designers…
One of the largest private collections of vintage haute couture, owned by BillyBoy*, a contemporary of Andy Warhol and the creator of the iconic Mdvanii doll, is being auctioned by Christie’s in London this December.
“My job is to make people happy. I want people to put my jewellery on…
An exhibition of collage drawings by artist Hormazd Narielwalla, Savile Row’s Dege & Skinner’s artist…
Ashish is a long term collaborator with Topshop, and they return for AW11 with a…
Unless you are over 90 you will not have personal experience of fighting in a World War. To help us understand, Brain Hemingway shares extracts from the World War II diaries of his father Paddy, fighting in the RAF.