Mini Skirts, Cartoons, and Climate Activism at Paris Fashion Week
From the trash bag dresses of Vaquera along grimy Cortlandt Alley, to swathes of satin at the Lincoln Center and a curtain yanked by Tom Ford, New York Fashion Week celebrated the...
Corsican Mourning Hymns and Honey From Sacré-Cœur at Paris Fashion Week
With travel restrictions once more en vogue across Europe, Paris Fashion Week arrived at the end of the spring-summer cycle as an unusually localised affair. Just as the Milanese kept to Milan,...
Kenzo Takada, the Japanese Designer Who Revolutionised French Fashion, Dies at 81
With the wet weather and surging coronavirus already putting a dampener on Paris Fashion Week, the fashion world was rocked on Sunday by the death of Kenzo Takada. The founder of Kenzo...
Cultureteca 27.09.20
In New York, fashion was swept off the streets of Manhattan to the Spring Studios rooftop in TriBeCa and far-flung Connecticut lawns, while in London designers like Molly Goddard, Roksanda Ilinčić, and...
Juliette Gréco, Doyenne of the French Chanson, Dies at 93
Juliette Gréco, doyenne of the French chanson, died on Wednesday at the age of 93 years old. Once described by Jean-Paul Sartre as carrying ‘a million poems in her voice’, the tributes...
Cultureteca 12.07.20
The global coronavirus pandemic reached new peaks this week as cases surged across the United States, India, and South Africa while the situation remained perilous in Brazil. California and Texas, the two...
Cultureteca 05.07.20
Even the bastions of good health and sound management were being breached this week, as there seemed to be nowhere on earth that the coronavirus was not spreading, whether creeping or rushing...
Cultureteca 08.03.20
Chastened but not deterred, Paris Fashion Week promised something of a respite for the ragged fashionistas who were able to make the trek over from Milan. With Lombardy the epicentre of a...
William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and the Beat Hotel
In a piece I wrote last month on William Burroughs, and the composition and publication of his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, I noted his defining relationship with the artist Brion Gysin. Burroughs...