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November 6, 2014

Culture, News

Fendi Antonio Berardi Alexander McQueen Stella McCartney From today Women for Women International will begin their partnership with high-end store Browns, commencing with a designer charity auction set to g...

SIBLING are in motion at the V&A’s Fashion in Motion

November 6, 2014

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The V&A museum have unveiled that knitwear collective SIBLING will be the latest subject of the museum's Fashion In Motion project. Four free catwalk shows will take place on Friday November 21 to showcase ...

Sculptor Duane Hanson at Gagosian NYC – The Commonplace Refurbished as Surreal

Emily Rae Pellerin

November 5, 2014

Avant Art, News

“I want to achieve a certain tough realism which speaks of the fascinating idiosyncrasies of our times,” Duane Hanson This past week, Gagosian New York presented American sculptor Duane Hanson’s Security Guar...

Roger Law ceramics at Sladmore Contemporary and talk at the British Museum

Xenia Founta

November 5, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Design, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Design, Glass Talents, News

This month, former puppet-maker and TV satirist Roger Law’s witty and delicate ceramic creations are on display at Sladmore Contemporary, London and he will also be talking about his work in pottery at the Brit...

Swire Hotels open The Continental restaurant in Hong Kong

Amanda Bernstein

November 4, 2014

Asia, Dining, Hong Kong, News, Travel

Swire Hotels has just announced the opening of its new restaurant, The Continental, the second stand-alone restaurant owned and managed by the group. The Continental, located in the freestanding building on ...

Prada presents its Steven Meisel Resort 2015 Campaign

November 4, 2014

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Prada has once again opted to depict their newest collection as envisioned by photographer and long-time collaborated Steven Meisel for a sensible Resort ‘15 ad campaign this week. Top Prada-esque m...

Nominations for the Moët British Independent Film Awards 2014 announced

November 3, 2014

Nominations for the Moët British Independent Film Awards have been announced today by Jared Harris, an actor best known for his role as Lane Pryce in AMC drama Mad Men. Taking place on 7 December, the...

Dive into Romanticism: Romantic Fashions – Mr Darcy meets Eline Vere

Xenia Founta

November 3, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

This autumn, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag explores the special and turbulent era of 19th century with a breathtaking exhibition entitled Romantic Fashions – Mr Darcy meets Eline Vere; bringing to life a range of fas...

Andrew Levitas: Metalwork Photography at the Phillips Gallery

Louise Lui

October 31, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, News

Phillips Gallery is presenting a series of Andrew Levitas’ signature Metalwork Photography. Levitas’ patented process involves the transfer of photographs onto transparencies, and consequently melted onto hand ...

TV on the Radio wow London

Ben Olsen

October 31, 2014

News

An intimate gig at East London’s Oslo this week saw TV on the Radio perform an energetic set that took in the best from the band’s previous four albums as well as new material from forthcoming album Seeds. Adep...

Kering and LCF look to fashion’s next generation

October 30, 2014

News

Last night at London College of Fashion’s John Princes St campus launchpad, head of college Professor Frances Corner OBE, alongside Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault, signed, sealed and are sure to deliver g...

Modern Love

Viola Levy

October 30, 2014

Beauty, Feature, Fragrance Picks, News, Shopping Guide

For anyone foolish enough to dismiss the world of beauty as “frivolous” or – as one diplomatic gentleman let slip to me at the launch of his new skincare brand – “just a load of women cooing over lipsti...

Iris Van Herpen metamorphosises Dom Perignon

October 28, 2014

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When Dom Perignon and Iris Van Herpen come together quality is of the utmost importance. This is exactly what was on show last night at Hus Gallery in Mayfair when the innovative designer and the time-honoured ...

Review: Anime Nere (Black Souls)

October 28, 2014

Francesco Munzi’s sombre Calabrian gangster film Here is a film that takes an abrupt left-turn in its last 75 seconds, with three brutal yet perversely compassionate slayings – an odd phrase, yet one that enca...

The London Film Festival 2014: The Man in the Orange Jacket

October 28, 2014

Maxim Lazarev plays the eponymous high-vis-jacket-clad murderer The denouements of horror films are usually their downfall. The genre derives its scares from three sources: the supernatural, the superhuman, ...

The London Film Festival 2014: Catch Me Daddy

October 28, 2014

Sameena Jabeen Ahmed won the Best Actress award at this year’s London Film Festival The Wolfe brothers’ début is a startling, troubling and fairly nasty film. Refreshingly nasty, in fact: it’s fantastically ta...

The London Film Festival 2014: Whiplash

October 28, 2014

JK Simmons channels R Lee Ermey as drill-sargeant-cum-orchestra-conductor Terence Fletcher The two central theses of this breathless film are so old-school they’re radical. Great art is often born of abuse. An...

Harrods takes you inside the studio of Antonio Berardi

October 24, 2014

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To bring this week to a fabulous fashion climax we thought we’d present to you the latest from Harrods in their new web series Inside The Studio. If you’ve been tracking the series as avidly as Glass has, y...

Lady Dior makes her return