Taylor made

Jessica Quillin
Feature
Lancashire-born designer Charlotte Taylor is known for her quirky prints, including penguins, vintage robots, bees, ants, and other surprising things. After finishing school, Charlotte moved to London to pu...

The artist

Nicola Kavanagh
Archive, Culture, Feature
Audrey Tautou is one of those rare birds. She is simultaneously one of the most famous actresses of her generation (Amélie is the highest grossing French movie of all time and even managed to break America ...

Luxury without gloss

Douglas Blyde
Dining, Feature, Glass Design
Although it has a small population – equivalent, at 5.4m, to the city of Philadelphia – Finland’s design culture, integrated into daily life, has touched the lives of a great many people. This year, while c...

Brave new world

Glass Archive
Archive, Feature
The June sunshine dapples on the slate at the Temple of Heaven, the Water Cube and Bird’s Nest sit still as two audacious beacons of a sprawling Beijing beaming across the globe. In a city where the East me...

Not so black and white

Ben Olsen
Feature
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Be it sat on stage in a bathrobe addressing his audience in song, breaking a world record for continuous piano playing (that’s 27-hours straight, since you ask), illustrating the similarities between Phil Colli...

Nails are MAC for good

Viola Levy
Feature
With colours that pop, shimmer, glisten or project moodily from the fingertips and toes, MAC’s new permanent collection of nail lacquers cater for all tones and tastes. Old favourites which have previously ...

Brainwashing the nation

Sarah Tweed
Avant Art, Feature
Who is to say what is art and what is not? Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, sure. But what about Street Art? What started as an underground revolt, has somehow filtered through the cracks right into broad...

A moment with Kirsty Ward

Jessica Quillin
Feature
Designer Kirsty Ward brings a unique aesthetic to fashion with her merging of womenswear and jewellery design. Her bold, structural creations combine unusual but complementary materials like silk, rivets an...

AKA47 as Art?

Ruthie Holloway
Avant Art, Feature
Guns have always proved an interesting object-cum-subject for many an artist, and now, to raise money for Peace One Day’s Global Truce Foundation 2013, ex-Afghanistan soldier and photographer, Bran Symondso...

Skincare A-Z

Viola Levy
Feature
A is for: Alkylation Damage identified by Estee Lauder as a specific type of skin damage caused by smoke and pollution which its new Advanced Night Repair Synchronised Recovery Complex helps to combat with ...

Made in China

Renyi Ng
Feature, Glass Design
Stars do not illuminate Beijing’s sky at night. Instead there are the sparks of metal as builders weld steel to steel on the tops of high-rise towers. China’s construction workers are building rapidly. Yet mo...

Losing the plot

Benjamin Lovegrove
Culture, Feature
Twenty-seven-year old Ned Beauman lives in Brixton, South London. He was the youngest nominee on this year’s Man Booker Prize Longlist with The Teleportation Accident. Only his second novel, this transatlan...

Gods and mortals

Peter Yeoh
Avant Art, Culture, Feature
Since the invention of photography in the 19th century, photographers have aspired to capture memorable moments in sports and create defining images of young mesomorphs doing great things in athletic events. In...

Patriotic perfumes

Viola Levy
Feature
There’s definitely something magical and unique about the British countryside and the perfume world would seem to agree – with three new fragrances whose ingredients focus on herbs, plants, fruit and flower...

Vacant expression

Nicola Kavanagh
Avant Art, Feature
Still Alive. Those are the words spray-painted in English and Japanese across the side of an abandoned house in an old, somewhat forgotten, district of Onomichi, Japan. Not a house victim to graffiti, but r...