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Introducing Uma Oath

French slow fashion label Uma Oath has just launched on the independent fashion and lifestyle e-tailer Space to Show. The brand was born out of founder Elsa Manunta’s passion for dance, textile design and couture [...]
Art

Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy – The 2021 Edition

How can art help us navigate through times of crisis such as these and create space for us to reconnect with the planet and each other? This is the key question explored by the Somerset [...]
Interview

Chic Chats #33 – House of Tammam

“I want to create bespoke, perfect pieces that are well-made and beautiful. Things you’ll want to pass down to your children: the vintage of the future.” Lucy Tammam, Creative Director at the House of Tammam [...]
Art

Love and Light from Yemen

One of our favourite creative discoveries this winter combines the preservation of an ancient craft with design-led solar-powered innovation. Yemen is known for its rich artisanal heritage but decades of instability and conflict have left [...]
Art

A Virtual Tour of the Leila Alaoui Retrospective at Somerset House

Somerset House invites you to be guided virtually by the award-winning Ekow Eshun around the first major UK retrospective of works by the late French-Moroccan photographer and video artist Leila Alaoui. Acclaimed for her social [...]
Art

Auction “To Beirut with Love” by Art for Beirut

The disastrous and deadly explosion which ripped Beirut apart on 4 August 2020 reopened old wounds and will forever remain an emotional scar for the Lebanese people. Today, thousands of Lebanese have joined forces through [...]
Fashion

Fashion’s got game! How luxury fashion is taking over gaming

Luxury fashion has long been associated with inaccessibility: expensive, elitist and exclusive. But its democratisation is well afoot, and in interesting ways. Luxury brands are now reaching tech-savvy, younger audiences through the use of video [...]

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Would you rent your clothes? Exploring fashion’s rental scene

Whatever your personal views on secondhand fashion, it is very much here to stay. [...]
Fashion

‘The Missing Thread’: recapturing the historical significance of black British fashion

So what exactly is ‘The Missing Thread’? In short, it’s a long-term project from the BFC’s Institute of Positive Fashion (IPF) that will celebrate black British fashion and culture, in partnership with the Black Orientated Legacy [...]
Art

Review of Design Museum’s Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers

The Design Museum’s celebration of electronic music comes at a time where the imminent lockdown, closure of clubs and an ever growing list of social restrictions have choked this dynamic yet seemingly fragile industry. The [...]
Art

The Big (Hearted) Art Auction

In a bid to support The Big Issue’s network of sellers who are currently faced with increased hardship on the streets, a high profile auction went live earlier this month at The Auction Collective. Big [...]
Art

Environmental Art Series – Takashi Kuribayashi

Takashi Kuribayashi aims to make the unseen visible in his thought-provoking artworks which have been exhibited all around the globe; from his Japanese birth town of Nagasaki, Tokyo and China, to Italy, France and the [...]
Art

World-class neon art from east London

To applause from around the globe, artist Marcus Bracey has been continuing the illuminating work of his late father, “the Godfather of Neon”. Chris Bracey gained a cult following for his unique upcycled creations which [...]