Forget fashion shops: how designers embraced art exhibitions

In fashion, it’s all about the blockbuster exhibition, with multiple fashion houses staging their own exhibitions. Is it more than mere vanity?

Madchester, grunge chic and Kate Moss: how the 90s shaped our world

The decade when youth culture exploded in defiant hypercolour lives on – and not just in Channel 4’s This is England ’90. Former editor of the Face Sheryl Garratt explains how the E generation’s style excesses are making a comeback

Tuna and mackerel populations suffer catastrophic 74% decline, research shows

WWF says we risk losing species critical to human food security unless action is taken to halt overfishing and other threats to marine life

Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musee d’Orsay named world’s best museum

Top 10 Travelers’ Choice Museums in the World in 2015. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has beat out nearly 600 cultural institutions from around the globe to be named the world’s favorite museum in TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Museums list. Award winners were determined using an algorithm that took into account the quantity and quality … Read more

NYFW: The Honeycomb Emirates Tie

Cloth-based ties are now passe, says Hex Tie, infusing life into the old fashioned “basic tie’ with a few eclectic designs, unveiled right in time for NYFW. Headquartered in New York City, Hex Tie’s edgy designs are inspired by the high-beat enthusiasm and vivacity of the city. The new Honeycomb Emirates Tie is a special … Read more

Do the write thing: why fashion has a fetish for stationery

Fashion has embraced technology but it still loves a pencil. And a posh notebook, a sharpie and embossed notecards. Inspired by Tom Ford and her school filofax, Jess Cartner-Morley on her stationery obsession