The nude portraits for Jane Hilton's latest show, Precious, present an intimate study of character, body and spirit. The fact that these photographs were taken at eleven different brothels across Nevada lends them even more poignancy.
Showing the unseen side to life as a working girl whilst challenging traditional concepts of beauty, the London-based photographer has created a thought-provoking body of work.
From a former drug addict to an aspiring philanthropist, each portrait offers a captivating insight into every woman's individual life story.
Precious exhibits from 26 April until 25 May at Eleven gallery.
Levi's is the quintessential laid-back denim brand, so what better way to spruce up your favourite cutoffs and boyfriend jeans than with some iconic Liberty prints?
Whether you choose the painterly effect of the Carlin print or the laser burnt, Pointillist-style Kerr Bandana option, the collaboration offers up fifteen casual yet stylish variations on denim jackets, jean shorts, bustiers, tank dresses and more.
Consider your summer wardrobe sorted.
The Levi's x Liberty store is available now online and at Liberty London.
Elsa Schiaparelli's innovative, Surrealist designs provided a fresh breath of fashion air in the industry from the 1920s up until her house's closure in 1954. Once confined to fashion museums and archives of decades past, the label is now receiving a revival through none other than Christian Lacroix.
The eccentric designer will be creating an haute couture collection for Schiaparelli as the first step in the house's relaunch, which will continue with annual creative collaborations. Showing in July, the 15-piece strong collection is sure to be as dramatic and unapologetically luxurious as the creations which made Lacroix a household name.
The French designer has described his vision for the label as a mix of “high and low, sophistication and naïveté, black and color, austerity contrasting with a fantasy, the luxury of high society and a sense of the people’s choice”. We'll definitely be keeping an eye on the results of this ongoing and well-deserved tribute to one of fashion's most influential female fashion designers.
For most people, London in the Swinging Sixties equals glitter, glamour and overall excess. However as Dorothy Bohm’s exhibition at Proud Chelsea proves, there was an equally captivating side to be seen in everyday metropolitan life.
“Almost every area had its own character and I knew I was undertaking a very difficult task. I tried not to be content with just the facade or outward appearance of things. I hoped to penetrate just beyond that, to portray a living London: the people who pursued their daily occupations, walked, talked, ate or relaxed and dressed in the fashions of the time,” the photographer says of her decision to capture the city through the lens of her Rolleiflex camera.
From youth culture to panoramic views, the result is a nostalgic and unique view of The Big Smoke.
Dorothy Bohm: Sixties London is on display until April 28th at Proud Chelsea, 161 King”s Rd London, SW3 5XP.
A photography/interview hybrid, 5 Minutes with Franny is a fresh introduction to an at times overwhelming webosphere.
Launched this month by photographer Frances Tulk-Hart, who has worked for the likes of Purple, British Vogue and Marc Jacobs, the site offers a quick peek into the lives of figures such as Twin favourite Christina Kruse and Girls actor Chris Abbott.
We’re already looking forward to seeing the next round of industry profiles.
If your are looking for a bit of springtime inspiration, don’t miss the 11-day graphic art, design and illustration festival Pick Me Up.
Opening this Thursday at Somerset House, the event will showcase the work of established and upcoming talents, with a roster of names including Annelie Carlström, Burgerac, Niki Pilkington and Rob Flowers.
Once you’ve finished viewing the artwork, stop by the pop-up nail booth run by artists like artists Anna Lomax and Katie Scott, plus contribute to Modern Toss Fuckyeux Tapestry, a project attempting to create the world’s longest and most profanity filled cartoon.
Pick Me Up : Graphic Arts Festival runs from April 18 to 28 at Somerset House, The Strand, WC2R 1LA.
In this day and age, it’s hard to imagine that there is a side to the Queen of Pop that the public hasn’t seen. However, just a year before Madonna released her debut eponymous album, she was photographed in her Lower East Side apartment by Richard Corman and fellow photographer George DuBose.
Having taken over thirty years to surface, these refreshingly cool photos of a young Ciccone go on display for the first time at the W Times Square in in New York. Select shots are also on display at the W New York, W Downtown, W Union Square, and W Hoboken.
Madonna : Exclusive Insider Access To A Never Before Seen Photo Retrospective is on display until May 12.
Say what you will about her political stance, but Margaret Thatcher was undoubtedly a woman of influence.
As the country’s longest serving and only female Prime Minister, she steered the country through times of high unemployment rates and social uprising, standing strong in the male-dominated world of politics with her trademark bouffant hair and power suits.
On Monday, 8 April 2013, London may have lost its Iron Lady, but her legacy will forever live on.
Today marks the final day of Bird’s Eye View Festival 2013: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers.
During the past week, the event has seen the screening of productions at the BFI Southbank, Barbican, ICA & Hackney Picturehouse alongside director Q&As, panel talks and a special Fashion Loves Film event.
Expect to see flicks such as Habibi (Darling, Something’s Wrong With Your Head) by Susan Youssef, the first feature set in Gaza for over 15 years and a modern-day depiction of the Israeli-Palenstinian conflict, plus the week’s award winners for best feature, documentary and emerging talent as part of the ceremony’s closing night gala.
Any news of an independent, creative publishing endeavour is good news, but Illuminati Girl Gang is especially noteworthy.
Available in both an online and print format, the publication founded by poet and editor Gabby Gabby is a celebration of female poets, artists and writers.
Containing everything from short fiction to collage work, Twin recommends you check this one out.
Harmony Korine’s latest film, Spring Breakers, is a controversial take on the American rite of party passage. Opening Ceremony decided to bottle up the Kids writer’s latest work of social commentary into an equally wild ride of a collection.
Created by costume designer Heidi Bivens, the result is a neon-hued, sportswear casual range of sweatpants, mesh tops, wristbands, bandanas and of course, bikinis, topped off with slogans and artwork produced in collaboration with NY artist REAS.
Keep calm and party on in these laidback threads.
The Opening Ceremony x Spring Breakers collection is now available exclusively at the Opening Ceremony boutique in London and online
There is perhaps no title that defines literary overkill quite like FiftyShades ofGrey. The purpose being to seemingly fulfill the intimate fantasies of the every day woman, it was the book on everybody’s lips last year. However, a direct response to James’ novel (although probably unlikely to achieve the same level of fame and a potential clothing line) proves that Mr Christian Grey simply wasn’t for everyone.
FiftyShadesofFeminism is a collection of fifty women’s thoughts on what being a woman today means to them. The book contains thoughts from politicians, youth and cultural leaders, barristers, actors and writers to name a few— from Siri Hustvedt and Jeanette Winterson to Ahdaf Soueif and Linda Grant.
Released fifty years after the publication of TheFeminineMystique, the book is a product of editor Lisa Appignanesi’s beliefs, “In any event, we were leaving Grey to become a spectrum of 50 vibrant varieties of feminism — women who can rally round Malala Yousafzai, or the victims of gang rape, acknowledge that the sheer accessibility of violence in sexuality is having terrible effects on our children’s lives, and speak out about sexist practices, while agreeing that our taste in books, humour, lifestyles or political parties can be quite different.”
Fifty Shades of Feminism is now available and published by Guardian Books.
There is nothing that conjures up a bit of retro nostalgia quite as sweetly as a vintage glass Coca-Cola bottles. Inspired by this cult item, the founder of A Bathing Ape and fashion designer NIGO has teamed up with iconic Japanese boutique Beams for his latest label, Human Made.
“I have been wearing Coco-Cola since back in high school – be it vintage T’s or my retro red Coke leather jacket, which is one of my most prized possessions. I was also the Japan Coca-Cola yo-yo champion back in the 80s, so this collaboration was a long time coming,” he enthusiastically explains.
If you can’t make it all the way to Japan, be sure to check out the collection at Shoreditch store, East London. Come summer, all we want to do is pop open a bottle of that carbonated, syrupy sweet brew and kick back in the park in these cool streetwear threads.
Fashion film has emerged as an innovative new approach to the genre, but leave it to Prada to pull out the big guns. For their new fragrance Candy L’Eau – a citrus, sweet pea and benzoin-scented flanker to the hit original created by Daniela Andrier – the house decided to let Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola create their own interpretation of the scent.
French actress Léa Seydoux stars in the playful short as the coquettish and love-torn protagonist, Candy. Just like this scent is a more lightweight interpretation of the 2011 original, CandyL’Eau is a playful take on joie de vivre. And too good to miss.
Watch the film and behind the scenes footage below.
For seven years, photographer Sante D’Orazio, who has lensed the likes of the Rollings Stones and Kate Moss for publications such as Vogue and VanityFair, disappeared from the spotlight.
Now a retrospective at Christie’s featuring his 45 most iconic portraits will pay tribute to the New Yorker’s two-decades plus long career, and possibly usher in a new era of his work.
With D’Orazio’s sensual and glamourous images of seventies rock stars, eighties supermodels and nineties pop stars already having garnered a cult status, we’re definitely rooting for this comeback kid.
With only five years together as a band, the effect that The Smiths have had on music, culture, and if you’re a fan of Morrissey, pretty much anything, is unbelievable. It seems there is an insatiable thirst for more from the infamous four that split 26 years ago – and that is where the Institute of Contemporary Art steps in.
Smithsfest is a two-day festival running this weekend at the Strand gallery, comprised of talks, performance, art and film, with the purpose to survey the artistic and cultural impact of The Smiths. A barber offering Moz-esque quiffs, a Q&A with SaintMorrissey author Mark Simpson and 80s DJ sets late into the night means that this will undoubtedly be the last weekend of any importance.
It’s been twenty years this month since Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail and Kathy Wilcox AKA Bikini Kill last toured the UK with the new found intention of liberating girls through the punk scene.
Cited as a strong influence by nearly all major female groups and artists, from the Spice Girls to Beth Ditto, it’s hard to imagine the state of the music industry today if Riot Grrrl had never happened.
Twin takes a look back through the group’s live performances; bold, raw and the driving force behind what we know now as girl power.
Student films get a bad rep, with cliches of shaky footage, bad lighting and even worse scripts being the norm. But even the queen of pop Madonna obtained some of her first media exposure in a short film entitled The Egg. If it works for Madge, then surely there is some unexplored potential to be found in this arena.
Helping charter this territory is Screentest Festival, an event championing the UK’s undiscovered Bigelows and Boyles. Since 2004, the annual festival has been bringing together a vast range of aspiring film talent. From drama to documentary, flicks from every genre will be screened alongside workshops and talks with industry figures, making it the ideal place for those looking to get their reels onto the big screen and curious film aficionados alike.
Screentest Festival runs from March 22 – 24 at South Bank University, 103 Borough Rd , SE1 0AA.
Dior’s status as an icon of French luxury fashion is indisputable, however it is a lesser known fact the designer himself was an enthusiastic Anglophile, often working with the likes of Princess Margaret and Cecil Beaton.
Dior at Harrods has been launched to commemorate this fusion of French style with British charm. More than a mere fashion installation, it is a full immersion into the house’s world of couture, accessories and fragrance with an added quintessentially English touch.
Raf Simons’ designs sit alongside royal beefeaters, Royal Mail postboxes are placed next to artistic reinventions of the Lady Dior handbag and a pop-up café inspired by Salon de Thé culture offers a Parisian take on afternoon tea. The collaboration also marks the exclusive launch of the brand’s new high-end fragrance, Gris Montaigne, a chypre blend of Calabrian bergamot, Turkish rose, patchouli, jasmine sambac and woody moss.
Whether you prefer to start by viewing the Avenue Montaigne facade or admiring the late fashion legend’s personal sketches, there is no better way to spend an afternoon than by getting lost in the far-reaching realms of the Dior universe.
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