Travel & Food
ChatGPT said: Creative Director of sova Restaurant — an Eastern European wine and vinyl bar in Notting Hill — creates a list of perfect drink-and-music combinations that you’ll love trying for yourself.
Fashion & Beauty
From cultural milestones to pieces we'd genuinely queue for — this week has it all.
Personalities
Best Pizza was created around the idea of reviving the neighbourhood pizzeria. What do you think makes a pizzeria feel like a genuine part of its neighbourhood rather than simply another restaurant? I think a pizzeria feels like part of the neighbourhood, especially when someone who lives in the neighbourhood
Fashion & Beauty
Meryl Streep’s wardrobe at auction, feasteables sparkling water and new Disney T-shirt – another week in collabs
Personalities
It’s not spooky season yet, but the ghosts are already back. They’re not here to scare us; instead, they make us reflect on death, grief, and the small, unseen stories of big cities — stories we may not see, but can somehow feel. An interview with Simon Wroe, author of Ghost Month.
Walks we love. The city we adore.
Books
In Nussaibah Younis’s debut novel, political extremism becomes the setting for a much more intimate story about queer identity, family and the dangerous vanity of believing we understand other people. Some novels announce their importance before the first chapter has properly begun. They arrive carrying urgent politics, the correct
Fashion & Beauty
Hiroshi Nagai x Hello Kitty City Pop Meets Kawaii — japanese illustrator Hiroshi Nagai, the visual mastermind behind the iconic City Pop aesthetic, has teamed up with Hello Kitty for a collection that's pure summer nostalgia. This collaboration translates his signature "West Coast meets retro Japan" vibe
Hot takes
It is festival season in the UK. At Boiler Room, I watched The Dare and Yung Lean and, like a person with a university education, critical faculties and chronically insufficient phone storage, filmed practically every song I recognised. Around me, precisely what people go to Boiler Room for was taking
Fashion & Beauty
Fashion has always flirted with art, but some designers didn't stop at a painting above the sofa. They collected, lived with, and built entire institutions around the work that inspired them. These 12 fashion visionaries understood that taste isn't just personal, it's a form of power.
Culture
Culture is, of course, already filling Margate with weekend tourists. Turner Contemporary began the official regeneration narrative; Tracey Emin has done more than most to turn the town into a serious artistic ecosystem, opening TKE Studios and an artist residency in her hometown. There are galleries, studio complexes, increasingly ambitious
Personalities
How does artists react on AI era? What shapes museums in modern technology shift? And how can digital mediums be preserved? We talked about that with Tamar Clark-Brown, arts technologies curator at Serpentine