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The Devil Wears...Dior?
We have a cafeteria?
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14 Looks Someone Will Definitely Wear to the Met Gala
Or how to dress for the Met without looking like museum merch.
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Collabs of a week
Flying Tiger X RuPaul Drag Race It’s going to be really tough to act fast and catch the latest collaboration between Flying Tiger and RuPaul’s Drag Race. This is the project we needed: a brand with colourful products and a show that brings pure joy to its audience.
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Going once, going twice: tales from the auctions
Auctions come in all flavours, from the classic open English auctions, where everyone eagerly watches as bids fly higher and higher, to the secretive closed, first-and second-price auctions where you might feel like a spy deciphering top-secret bids. Then there are the Dutch auctions, which defy gravity
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From Ye to Wong Kar-wai: a week in culture
Cultural updates you didn’t ask for but need.
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The art of video games
Playful news
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Now we understand Kate Bush
The places of Wuthering Heights really inspire us to feel a dark romance
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When artists take on the world of jewellery: 7 examples
Collaborations between brands and artists have become so popular that if you type “collaboration”, you can see dozens of publications every hour, and it seems that this stream will never stop.
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Tracey Emin at Tate Modern
Tracey Emin’s retrospective at Tate Modern (supported by Gucci) was always going to be a blockbuster and a purpose for cultural tourism. A reason to come to London, or to renew your membership, so you don’t queue. I went with particular anticipation. Tracey is for me an artist
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Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art is at the V&A
The first-ever Schiaparelli exhibition in the UK just opened and the corsets alone are worth the trip.
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Five British TV shows that are basically a degree in this country
Hot take: you cannot understand a country’s culture without watching its television. You can go to museums, pubs, read newspapers, talk to locals — but until you turn on national TV at prime time, you’re a tourist. British television is my anthropological empire. This is where you learn what
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Thousands of balls of yarn. All by hand.
Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life is at the Hayward Gallery until 3 May. The entire top floor — floor to ceiling, wall to wall — woven from black and red thread. Suitcases, keys, letters, beds, shoes suspended inside. She studied under Marina Abramović in Berlin. Started as a painter, then performance, then