In the cavernous central hall of Edinburgh’s National Museum of Scotland stands a taxidermied sheep in a glass box. She looks out sagely from her final resting place, a modest grey plinth decorated with a smattering of hay. Her name is Dolly. Born in the summer...
An unassuming corner of Finsbury Park, tucked away behind the budget bridal and tailoring stores of Fonthill Road, isn’t the first place you might expect to find the HQ of one of London’s most dynamic and exciting new brands. But ring the buzzer and head...
If you’re willing to brave the swerving motorcyclists of Ho Chi Minh City, a short journey into the central district reveals a city that wears its checkered history on its sleeve. There are the wide boulevards, bakeries, and colonial architecture from its period as a...
In a sleepy corner of the Wiltshire countryside, nine miles east of Salisbury, sits a cattle farm. To enter, you take a gravel lane that weaves through fields of glossy brown cows chewing the cud, bred here to be sold across the country. However, approach...
Martine Rose is probably the best designer in the world. At least, that’s what she likes to write across her t-shirts. “It’s good to poke fun at yourself,” she says, sitting in her studio in north London. “If you have a sense of humour, you...
She’s a girl giggling on a beach wearing a feathered headdress, sharing a candid moment with photographer Corinne Day. She’s a young woman standing casually in a black tank top and knickers for Calvin Klein, head tilted, gazing forcefully down the legendary lens of Herb...
While he might be best known for winning the 2004 Turner Prize, and representing Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013, you’re more likely to find Jeremy Deller reenacting a miner’s strike in a remote, sodden field than exhibiting on the walls of a blue-chip Mayfair gallery....
It’s a summer morning at the legendary shoe designer Christian Louboutin’s estate in the coastal town of Melides, and breakfast is served. Here, at Christian’s private oasis, he spends long Portuguese summers sketching the red-soled wonders that will be sold next sea- son to the...
In 1912, a team of German archaeologists led by Ludwig Borchardt were trawling the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna when they uncovered a series of stone busts. Continuing to excavate, they stumbled upon a studio belonging to Thutmose, the official court sculptor to the ruling...
The daily spectacle of street style orbiting Seoul Fashion Week is worth the journey alone. There are the toddlers popping and locking in Balenciaga, forcing you into a moral dilemma of “so cute!” versus, “if I start taking pictures of them, will I get handcuffed?”...