Wanderland
I’m lying on my bed in my hotel room and there is a giant fish on the wall. I say fish, but in place of its tail it has the stem of a Champagne flute. These two seemingly mutually exclusive objects, printed o...
Wanderland
I’m lying on my bed in my hotel room and there is a giant fish on the wall. I say fish, but in place of its tail it has the stem of a Champagne flute. These two seemingly mutually exclusive objects, printed...
Passion for purity
“White is the most wonderful colour because within it you can see all the colours of the rainbow … The whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and that which is changi...
Budget boutique
A couple of years ago, an architect friend of mine applied to be on the Apprentice UK. He got down to the last 20 shortlisted before being sent home at the final hurdle – his “business plan”. When he outlin...
Still got it: Japan
C’mon, admit it. Japanese creativity bleeds heavily to all corners of art, fashion, design and architecture on a global scale, and more so than many other countries that are credited with a trendsetting nat...
InHOTim
When I was a child – and, indeed, until the day that my grandparents sold their home – nothing would make me happier than spending time in my grandparents’ garden. The garden, which to this day still forms ...
Drawing attention
The art of illustration has long been kindred to fashion. And if you take a closer look at the development of fashion illustration in the 20th century reveals its intimate links with the evolution of fashio...