British film costume design rests on a small group of designers with an outsized record at the Oscars and BAFTAs, and on London costume houses…
Haydn West on Kane Parsons' Backrooms, Jane Schoenbrun's Camp Miasma, and how Hollywood learned to buy subcultural revolutions before they happen.
Mary Quant did not invent the miniskirt, but she did something harder to copy: she invented the boutique as a way of selling an attitude,…
To collect art on a budget, set a fixed annual or monthly ceiling, train your eye for free in public galleries, and buy directly from…
A good film review makes a clear judgement early, gives the reasons for it, and supports those reasons with evidence from specific moments on screen.…
The UK design museums most worth visiting are the Design Museum in Kensington, the V&A’s family of sites (South Kensington, the two V&A East buildings…
Azzurra Rinaldi on fashion's tattoo motifs, from Miyake to McQueen, and why a second skin is not a first skin.
Almost every professional dance institution in Britain traces back, directly or by inheritance, to two immigrant women. One was the Irish-born Ninette de Valois, whose…
The Victoria and Albert Museum began not as a temple of art for art’s sake but as a government instrument to improve British manufacturing after…
Iranian painter Nafiseh Mehmandoust on I Came by Metro: transit interiors, Guernica ceiling lamps, and painting the repetitive flow of daily life.