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Lit by a single strip of cool white, these sharp all-black clothes are staged within scenes from a stark odyssey. They are an exclamation mark. A slash through the disarray of dim biscuit, cloudy nude and wan magnolia. Across the seasonal...
Paul Smith opened his first standalone store in 1970, in a tiny, windowless location in Byard Lane, a pokey Nottingham alleyway. In the years prior, he had cut his teeth at Birdcage, a tailor’s workshop-turnedindependent boutique in the...
In 1994, German fashion designer Jil Sander commissioned Michael Gabellini to conceive her Milanese HQ, which would occupy a former palazzo and cinema on the city’s Piazza Castello. The architect had recently designed Sander’s inaugural Paris...
The world is so chaotic,’ says Kim Kardashian over the phone from LA, ‘so I always wanted my home to feel really simple and warm’. In the world according to Kardashian, chaos is evidently a condition best answered with beige. The colour has...
The new Maison Hermès, on London’s New Bond Street, is one of the largest in the Parisian house’s network, an extraordinary feat of construction and craft that has been 17 years in the making (the premises were purchased by Hermès in 2009). By...
