Tag: Culture
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Designs of the Year: chairs that make you fidget and a piano from the future
From the Pro Chair that makes schoolkids squirm to an all-black piano, plus Prada and Zaha Hadid, here are the seven category winners from the Designs of the Year
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Alexander Wang’s collaboration with H&M: affordable style for the social media generation
Wang x H&M feels like a masterstroke, because this is a designer who already knows how to make desirable clothes without four-figure price tags. Expect urban basics in stretch fabrics and muted tonesGallery: Coachella fashion: is it actually the 90s?
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Arkaeology: the real meaning of the Noah story
The film Noah is outraging evangelicals. But with its hot rain, incest and castration, the biblical story is far wilder, finds Jenny Diski• Noah: first look review
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Cannes film festival goes for retro cool with Fellini poster
Official poster for 2014 festival resurrects vintage glamour thanks to Marcello Mastroianni, the Italian star of Fellini’s 8½• News: Grace of Monaco to open Cannes 2014• News: Jane Campion heading Cannes 2014 jury
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Queen’s old toys among items to go on display in exhibition of royal childhood
Buckingham Palace exhibition will offer small glimpse into toy boxes and wardrobes of generations of young royals
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From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour
A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style