“You know, when you do a mono-product line, you need to feel inspired by it,” says Aude Castéja, the French designer behind the young brand Monographie. Her line is “mono” in that every garment is a riff on the same concept: shirting.
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London’s Ever-Changing, One-Stop Shop
Down a side street in leafy Notting Hill, the women’s clothing line Talitha, best known for the sort of silk caftans and tasseled blouses you might cover up with in Belize or Formenterra, has opened its first store.
Read More10 Classic Photographs — Reinterpreted Entirely in Play-Doh
The artist Eleanor Macnair is an expert on the subject of Play-Doh. Different colors have different textures, she explains: “The whites are usually very soft; the black’s quite oily.” The children who play with the modeling clay probably haven’t noticed, but Play-Doh is Macnair’s palette: She uses it to recreate her favorite images from the world of documentary photography, then captures her versions on camera.
Read MoreThe Photographer Who Captured People Driving in Los Angeles
“I wanted to do something that would have a little humor to it, and maybe a little riskiness,” the photographer Mike Mandel says. His new book, “People in Cars” out next month, does just that: It’s a collection of snapshots he took in 1970s California as a 19-year-old kid. “I grew up in Los Angeles and all of my experience of being in L.A. was about going from one place to the other by car,” he recalls.
Read MoreA Cool, Genderqueer Label to Know
When he wasn’t bartending his way through Central Saint Martins, Charles Jeffrey was hosting Loverboy, a monthly club night at London’s VFDalston. He now spends most of his time being a proper men’s wear designer, though “proper” hardly describes his anarchic aesthetic.
Read MoreA British Raincoat Staple Gets a Sleek Upgrade
Neat pinafore dresses, belted vests and high-waisted coats, all in a rubberized, waterproof fabric: These are the pieces of a new collaboration between the Scottish heritage brand Mackintosh and the young British label Le Kilt, which launched on Friday during London Fashion Week.
Read MoreA British Design Darling’s Very Personal New Studio
At all of 27, Luke Edward Hall, a stylish Harry Potter look-alike who favors the warmer side of British eclecticism, has become the interior designer to know.
Read MoreOld Photographs That Capture America at a Crossroads
"There’s an old French expression: The nearer the gallows, the clearer the truth,” says the documentary photographer Joel Sternfeld. “And my truth began with Walker Evans.” The iconic photographer of the Great Depression was a key inspiration on Sternfeld’s own influential 1987 photography book “American Prospects,” images from which go on display at London’s Beetles+Huxley gallery this week, alongside pictures that have never been shown before.
Read MoreInside London’s Exclusive Gentlemen’s Clubs
Knorr was particularly interested in the exclusion of women, who might be invited into the clubs as guests, but did not have access to every room. “This was the early ’80s and Thatcher was in power, yet she was not allowed to be a full member,” says the photographer.
Read MoreBrand to Know: A Line of Pieces Woven From Unusual Materials
“What I’m really interested in is actually being defiant,” says Amy Revier, a Texan artist who has made north London her home for the last five years. She is sitting by a rack of the muted clothes that she weaves by hand, at the London concept store Hostem — and yet, she doesn’t see herself as a fashion designer at all.
Read MoreIn London’s Silver Vaults With Mulberry’s New Design Star
On a recent afternoon on London’s Chancery Lane, Johnny Coca, the creative director of Mulberry, was browsing the underground marketplace of the London Silver Vaults — a warren of around 30 subterranean shops that has become one of his favorite places since he moved here six years ago. “I think it’s a very unexpected place,” he said, conspiratorially. “It’s kind of like a jewel display for me, because you can see all these antique silver products from the past.”
Read MoreBrand to Know: A Designer Quietly Inspired by Buddhism
In a crowded corner of London’s Dover Street Market, the Chinese designer Renli Su is standing in front of her eponymous collection: one rail carrying embroidered dresses, jackets and skirts in a creamy, warm beige. “I heard they sell very quick this season,” she confides, quietly.
Read MoreOddball British Rituals, in Playful Vintage Photos
A town mayor perched on a weighing scale; men dressed as clowns, dancing in the street; a crowd pursuing a rolling cheese down a hillside: At first glance, it’s not entirely clear what’s going on in this arresting series of early-70s images by the British photographer Homer Sykes, who spent seven years documenting obscure annual traditions taking place in communities around Britain.
Read MoreImages That Capture the Leisure — and Loneliness — of College
Sprawled on grass, floating down a river, or gazing blankly into the distance — all the subjects captured, unawares, in the photographer Paddy Summerfield’s new book “The Oxford Pictures” share a certain listlessness.
Read MoreIn London, a Celebration of All Things Punk
“Punk itself was about being on the cutting edge of anything new,” says the photographer Anita Corbin, whose portraits of women in the punk scene are on show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London this weekend. “So if you could shock people by wearing ripped tights and piercing your mouth — that would be a great statement to show the authorities that we were young and we weren’t too innocent anymore.”
Read MoreA Nigerian Designer, Inspired by Home
For the 26-year-old Nigerian designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal, whose brand Orange Culture held a presentation in a showroom at London Collections Men this weekend, fashion is a very personal business. “We’re trying to communicate the idea of a new generation of African men,” he told T of the intentions behind his gender-fluid men’s wear line.
Read MorePersonal (and Romantic) Vintage Pictures From a Legendary Photographer
“He was a real cockney, Bert, and he loved his jellied eels,” Sue Davies, the founding director of London’s The Photographers’ Gallery, says of the British photographer Bert Hardy — with whom she used to have regular lunches until his death in 1995. This Friday, her gallery will open a new exhibition and sale of some of Hardy’s favorite original prints, which were saved as keepsakes in his private collection and have never before been displayed.
Read MorePerson to Know: The Designer Transforming Embroidery With Technology
The brand is inspired by the likes of Keira Knightley, Lily James and Daisy Ridley — “the English rose with a twist” — and to this end, Archer’s designs are luxurious and feminine, but she tempers the ladylike quality by including casual, everyday silhouettes.
Read MoreIn Dublin, a Photographer Turns His Lens on the Street
Until two years ago, the photographer Eamonn Doyle, whose new work “End.” goes on show at London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery this May, was not known for his photographs. After graduating art college in 1991, he founded a record label and a festival in his native Dublin, immersing himself in the local music scene for almost 20 years. It was after the economic crash in 2008 that, feeling burned out and in need of a change, he bought a camera and began to photograph life on the streets around his home.
Read MoreFashion Brand to Know: The Year-Old Label Inspired by ‘Adult Babies’
Liushu “Shushu” Lei and Yutong “Tongtong” Jiang, the designers behind the new women’s wear brand Shushu/Tong, cite the Japanese singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu as one of their greatest inspirations. For the uninitiated, she’s a star of the colorful J-pop scene — cartoonish, lurid, hyper-cute.
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