When I was making a vague attempt to house hunt in the oh-so-hot-right-now area of Walthamstow, estate agents would constantly bleat on about a property being in the vicinity of the William Morris Gallery and why that made it xxx amount more expensive. That broken record did wear thin after a while, which is why I’ve… Continue reading Anarchic Aesthete
Category: Art
Moscow Snapshot
I didn’t plan on writing anything about my trip to Moscow given that it was so brief I really thought I was going to literally go in, do my talks (one public one at the department store Tsvetnoy and one as part of Conde Nast Russia’s Digital Day) and then fly back without seeing much… Continue reading Moscow Snapshot
Agendering
“Agender” is a word I’ve been pondering for a while now, spurred by Selfridges’ seasonal project, which kicked off last month, with a set of conceptual windows and in-store space designed by the brilliant Faye Toogood. From the perspective of Selfridges – a mainstream department store, Agender seeks to strip away conventional gender separation whereby women head… Continue reading Agendering
The Art of being a Flâneur
“This stroller spots the novel in the humdrum, the unseen in the deja vu, the faraway in the local. The flâneur gathers and gleans like a bee among flowers.” Pierre Alexis Dumas in the introduction to the latest S/S 15 issue of the in-house magazine Le Monde D’Hermès Flâneur. It’s a French word that has… Continue reading The Art of being a Flâneur