Frank Ocean Blonde Anniversary: Why the Album Refuses to Age
Ten years on from its release, the Frank Ocean Blonde anniversary arrives with the quiet force of the album itself: no fanfare, no reissue campaign, no anniversary tour. Just the... Read More
Kim Kardashian Gucci Bikini Brings the Horsebit into High-Summer
The Gucci Horsebit detail has long functioned as one of fashion’s most legible shorthand signs, a piece of hardware so thoroughly coded into the house’s identity that its appearance on... Read More
Gracie Abrams fronts the Coco Mademoiselle Crush Absolu campaign as Chanel’s face of a new era
The Coco Mademoiselle Crush Absolu campaign, shot by Lachlan Bailey and starring singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams, landed this month as the first major addition to the Coco Mademoiselle line in six... Read More
Malavika Kannan’s Unprecedented Times gives gen Z’s Covid college story its novel
Malavika Kannan’s Unprecedented Times arrives at a peculiar cultural moment: five years on from the first lockdowns, the pandemic has generated more memes than literature, more celebrity Instagram apologies than... Read More
What an Etsy witch beauty spell taught me about confidence and ritual
The Etsy witch beauty spell is not, it turns out, the supernatural Roaccutane prescription one might hope for. For about £7.50, with a 15 per cent discount on bundles of... Read More
Brooks Nader Roberto Cavalli Capri carousel captures the slip dress at its most elemental
There is a particular kind of Italian-holiday image that recurs across decades of fashion photography: a staircase, light falling at an angle, a woman in something barely there and entirely... Read More