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Kate Moss: What Makes a Muse?

Kate Moss: What Makes a Muse?

Dazed Magazine — She's a girl giggling on a beach wearing a feathered headdress, sharing a candid moment with photographer Corinne Day. She's a young woman standing casually in a black tank top and knickers for Calvin Klein, head tilted, gazing forcefully down the legendary lens of Herb Ritts.

Bovine intervention: the art gallery that escaped to the country

Bovine intervention: the art gallery that escaped to the country

The Guardian — In a sleepy corner of the Wiltshire countryside, nine miles east of Salisbury, sits a cattle farm. To enter, you take a gravel lane that weaves through fields of glossy brown cows chewing the cud, bred here to be sold across the country.

In Vietnam, The Millennials Are Reinventing Old Saigonese Style Codes

In Vietnam, The Millennials Are Reinventing Old Saigonese Style Codes

Vogue — All products featured on Vogue are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If you're willing to brave the swerving motorcyclists of Ho Chi Minh City, a short journey into the central district reveals a city that wears its checkered history on its sleeve.

Joan Collins on Being the New Face of Valentino and Why She'll Never Wear Jeans

Joan Collins on Being the New Face of Valentino and Why She'll Never Wear Jeans

Vogue — Even if Alexis Carrington's looks in Dynasty defined an entire era of fashion, Joan Collins seems bemused when I ask her to describe her style evolution across the decades since. "I suppose I just gravitate towards whatever catches my fancy, it's eclectic. Why, how would you describe it?" says the 86-year-old actress.

unpacking the south korean couple-twinning phenomenon

unpacking the south korean couple-twinning phenomenon

i-D-UK — The daily spectacle of street style orbiting Seoul Fashion Week is worth the journey alone. There are the toddlers popping and locking in Balenciaga, forcing you into a moral dilemma of "so cute!" versus, "if I start taking pictures of them, will I get handcuffed?"

What This Year's Costume Design Nods Say About the Oscars in 2020

What This Year's Costume Design Nods Say About the Oscars in 2020

Vogue — The nominations for this year's Academy Awards were announced only this morning, but the top picks have already garnered their fair share of controversy.

the understated cult london labels taking it slow

the understated cult london labels taking it slow

i-D-UK — L-R: Wright Le Chapelain, Phoebe English, Roni Ilan. The tried-and-tested trajectory to become London's splashiest new fashion designer is now sacrosanct: a stint at Central Saint Martins, a place on the Fashion East roster, and then continued support from the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN scheme to get you off the ground until outside investors come in to help you enter the big leagues.

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Literary Review — A missing-person case leads a nameless inspector into a shady underworld of corrupt corporations, random disappearances and duplicitous men in suits. So far, so noir. But as the narrator-inspector of Martin MacInnes's genre-bending debut starts to disintegrate, both physically and psychologically, the book takes a sweeping diversion into the inspector's own identification with the missing individual [...]...

Mark Fisher: The Weird and the Eerie

Mark Fisher: The Weird and the Eerie

The Times Literary Supplement