On Friday 27 January, the City of Memphis released video footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
The footage showed five members of the Memphis force encircling Nichols, a 29-year-old father and keen photographer, and repeatedly punching, kicking and hitting him with batons. The four separate videos, which included bodycam and nearby CCTV footage, have sparked international outrage, leading to protests in Memphis, New York and other cities across thehellip;
read more raquo;Long before the E-girls and E-boys logged on, millenials were busy downloading a torrent of tunes on LimeWire, unironically using MySpace, and broadcasting on BBM.hellip;
read more raquo;The New York skate scene is one of the most idolised in the world. First published in 2010, Full Bleed is a comprehensive and monumental photographic recollection of this scene, told across three decades and captured through the lenses of over 40 photographers, including famed creatives Spike Jonze and Larry Clark. Professional skateboarder and New York nativehellip;
read more raquo;Marilyn Manson allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted an underage girl on multiple occasions in the 1990s, according to a new lawsuit filed on Long Island, New York on Monday.
The suit focuses on crimes which allegedly happened at the beginning of Manson’s career. The unnamed plaintiff, described as “an adult female residing in Maryland”, claims she was 16 years old when Manson first targeted her in 1995, and continued to abuse her forhellip;
read more raquo;Grace McGrade is an intuitive astrologer and priestess based in Los Angeles. She is the host of the podcast, “Bitchcraft: Spirituality for Bad People.” Her sessions include birth chart readings, tarot, energetic clearings and psychic consultations.
The stops and starts of January brought about byhellip;
read more raquo;There is a version of Mac DeMarco frozen in time and place. The 32-year-old – whose music is baked so deeply into the landscape of modern guitar pop it feels like he ought to be older – shot to prominence in the early-2010s and almost instantly came to define them. His warm, softly psychedelic music – blue wave, jizz jazz, whatever you want to call it – goes hand in hand with what we might now think of as the last hurrah before social media redefined thehellip;
read more raquo;In the era of streaming giants and their seemingly infinite amount of content, MUBI is doing things differently. With its carefully curated selection of arthouse classics, film festival favourites and new releases, the streaming platform is leading the pack in bringing the most innovative forms of storytelling to a wider audience.
read more raquo;If you spied a white plume of smoke arising from the rooftops of Avenue Montaigne this week, please be aware that this was not a distress flare let off by the gilet jaunes, but instead an announcement that the SS23 campaigns have arrived. In a season of high-fashion gimmicks, the spring season bore witness to identical twins, sand-strewn runways and plastic flowers. There were anamorphic handbags andhellip;
read more raquo;Since its inception in the year 2000, the talent agency The Wall Group has been a leader in its field, with top styling talent like Charlotte Stockdale and Katie Lyall on their books, and offices in New York, LA, London and Paris. After two successful cycles across the pond, the company is now bringing its TWG Incubator scheme to London for a brand new round of mentorship.
The programme, which kicks off on January 26, pairs up-and-coming creatives with artistshellip;
read more raquo;For young designers working across the global south, “futurism” is an attractive term. With roots in African-American science fiction, it offers an alternative to the glass-paned megalopolises of colonial nations; homogenous citadels where the future has arrived, but at the expense of craft, tradition, and mysticism. Designers like Zeid Hijazi, who is from nbsp;
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“Something that excites and confuses,” is what
When Raye climbed to number one with “Escapism” earlier this month, it wasn’t just deserved, but deliciously ironic. The wildly talented singer-songwriter spent seven years on a major label chasing hits that came, all too often, at the expense of her own musical identity. At an intimate gig in London last October, she sang her massive 2021 house banger “Bed”, a collaboration with DJ-producers Joel Corry and David Guetta that is now nudging 400 million Spotifyhellip;
read more raquo;Marie Kondo shocked fans during a recent webinar by revealing that she has “kind of given up” on keeping her home tidy. “My home is messy, but the way I am spending my time is the right way for me at this time at this stage of my life,” she said.
The recent webinar was organised to promote Kondo’s new book, Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life. “Up until now, I was a professionalhellip;
read more raquo;Stock up on tissues before 8th of Feb because we’re screening Lukas Dhont’s tender coming-of-age queer drama Close in Dalston’s Rio Cinema.
Watch as 13-year-old best friends Léo and Remi have their seemingly unbreakable bond torn apart in this captivating reminder of the fragility of childhood friendship. Silence has never been so loud.
Wednesday 8 February, 6pm
After three years of preparation, towards the end of last year, Virginie Viard brought Chanel to Senegal, presenting her 2022/2023 Métiers d’Art collection in the capital city of Dakar. A vibrant city filled with creativity and culture, Dakar was the perfect fit to continue Chanel’s legacy of championing internationalhellip;
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