Deep K Kailey’s Guide To London Design Festival 2023

Deep K Kailey is a cultural narrator and artistic director based in London; through exhibitions, editorials, films, and brand development, Kailey creates resonant visual languages. Most recently the Fashion Director of Tatler and Fashion Editor of Vogue India, her previous engagements include Dazed and Managing Director to Kim Jones. She has styled the likes of…

5 Mexican Furniture Designers Reframing Indigenous Crafts

Mexico’s rich history of crafts spans millennia, rooted in indigenous cultures that mastered processes like weaving, pottery, and carving. Pre-Columbian civilisations, such as the Aztecs and Maya, utilised diverse natural materials to remarkable effect. Following Spanish colonisation, which introduced European influences and led to a fusion of styles, the 20th century witnessed a resurgence of…

5 Brazilian Designers You Should Know

Brazil, a country known for its vibrant culture and rich artistic heritage, has become a burgeoning nucleus for fashion over the recent decades. The largest country in South America, the nation possesses one of the fastest-growing economies in the region. The majority of the population now resides in urban centres scattered along the eastern coastline,…

10 Global Tea Traditions & The Histories That Shaped Them

Tea rituals offer a unique insight into diverse histories of the world. The tale of tea originates in China, where it is believed that in 2737 BCE, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung sat beneath a tree while his servant boiled drinking water. As fate would have it, a few leaves from the tree floated into…

How A Defunct Pan-African Airline Inspired This Magazine

Air Afrique magazine is a dynamic new platform celebrating Afro-diasporic art and fostering discussions around Black expression. Conceived by a Paris-based collective and drawing inspiration from influential pan-African magazines of the past century, the publication made its debut at the Centre Pompidou in Paris during Men’s Fashion Week with the support of Italian fashion house…

The Best From The Venice Architecture Biennale 2023

Titled The Laboratory of the Future and curated by Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic and writer, Lesley Lokko, the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale is now open to the public and running until 26 November 2023. The Biennale includes 63 national participants spread across the Giardini, at the Arsenale, and in the historic city centre of Venice. As…

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