British Fashion Influencers Become The Face Of Royal Mail Postage

Sometimes, certain stamps are just too precious to use and these Great Brit fashion stamps are certainly no exception.   Created by graphic designers Johnson Banks, they commissioned fashion photographer  Sølve Sundsbø to photograph 10 outfits by Britain’s top fashion influencers within the past 60 years including Vivienne Westwood, Ossie Clark, Paul Smith, Zandra Rhodes and Alexander […]

Secondhand Rose on Nowness.com. Alike Suzanne Lipschutz, the founder of original vintage wallpaper store Secondhand Rose, featured in the above short by directors Nick Sweeney and Aaron Peasley, I too love wallpaper.  With over 50years in the biz, she dishes about celebrity clients including Streisand + Madonna, Paris flea markets, the Bauhaus era and knocking over white paint at the […]

Hit And Misses At This Year’s Costume Institute Gala

Usually, the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is always surrounded by a lot of ‘buzz’, but this year’s Gala which took place on Monday, celebrating “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations”, a fictitious meeting between the two fashion design icons was definitely not any different. With the exhibit dealing with Miuccia Prada, considered an […]

Collecting Truly Is A Wonderful Illness

Collecting is a Wonderful Illness on Nowness.com. especially if I were able to amass the private art collections owned by the eccentric beauty and cultural patron Daphne Guinness and Simon de Pury, the flamboyant Swiss auctioneer, art mogul and chairman + co-founder of auction house Phillips de Pury & Company. With the help of photographer + filmmaker […]

For Úna Burke, It’s All About Leather Studded Curves

For Her ‘Overcome’ A/W 2012 Collection Unlike Úna Burke‘s past work, which dealt more with construction and restraint, this ‘Overcome’ Fall  collection deals with a different kind of restraint.  Úna’s creations still hug the female silhouette yet with this collection, she works with a lighter hand creating loops and arabesques joined together by beautiful hardware. […]

Get Ready To Be Chairlifted! Here’s Chairlift‘s music vid for their new single, ‘Amanaemonesia’ (try saying that real fast) from their new album ‘Something’ available now.  The Brooklyn-based self-described “surrealist pop” duo, made up of Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly, managed to create an experience alike no other.  Referencing a conceptual time and place made possible with a […]