Femi Adeyemi is one of the most important figures working in the U.K. music industry today. The London-based collector and DJ-turned-blogger founded the digital radio platform NTS in 2011, an evolution of the mixtapes he was collating and creating for the internet’s nascent music communities. Aimed at those whose interests he felt were underrepresented by…
Founded by Mason Vincent and Jack Redpath, Darling is a furniture studio dedicated to curating an ever-changing selection of rare objects and collectible design pieces. From bases in Sydney and New York, the pair have developed a studio that sources, restores, and recontextualises collectible furniture and objects from across Europe, while championing a new generation of designers…
Announced today, Hermès’ appointment of Grace Wales Bonner as Creative Director of Menswear marks the recognition of a designer who has long deserved the chance to lead a maison. As the first Black female creative director of a major fashion house, her role is both a significant milestone and a welcome breath of fresh air…
A true maverick, Chinese-American fashion designer Kaisik Wong was born in San Francisco in 1950. Emerging onto the Bay Area’s counterculture scene in the late 1960s, his work not only rejected existing structures of the fashion industry but defied classification altogether, sitting somewhere between art, theatre, and garment-making. His pieces straddle time and place: equal…
It’s a bright day in the mid-morning at Lasse Petersen‘s home on the edge of Wanstead Flats, near Forest Gate in east London. He lives here with his wife and two young children but today he’s alone: wearing a long-sleeve, off-white waffle tee and ripped skinny jeans, he’s drinking a cup of filter coffee he…
In the sweltering heat, a figure shimmers onstage in Port of Spain, like something from a fever dream. It’s Carnival Tuesday in Trinidad, 1982. Two enormous wings, stretched over ten feet wide, iridescent and trembling, are attached to a golden man. The costume, Papillon, donned by eight time King of Carnival Peter Samuel, was designed…
Ryan Chetiyawardana—better known across the world’s drinks industry as Mr Lyan—is the visionary bar owner who has sought to redesign cocktail as a craft through a fusion of science, art, and sustainability. He was brought up in Birmingham by a pastry‑chef mother, where immersed himself in food, art, and biology from a young age, later studying…
Bokman, a small neighbourhood Korean restaurant in Bristol’s (and Banksy’s) Stokes Croft, is serving some of the best food in the U.K. Dongnae, a new neighbourhood spot further north in Redlands, isn’t far behind. Both are the creation of chef-owners Kyu Jeong Jeon and Duncan Robertson whose culinary alliance was forged in Paris – at the…