The new three-week long fundraising project denounces white queer racism and black queer antagonism through photography, literature and film.  Jamaican-born creative Jordan Anderson has long felt concern for the worryingly stagnant direction of the fashion and arts industries and the lack of black LGBTQ+ representation within them, hence deciding to take matters into his own hands. “My Queer...

A coalition of more than 400 Black editors, stylists, models and executives is set to address systematic racism and discrimination within the fashion and beauty industries when it launches next month.Co-founded by Teen Vogue Editor-In-Chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner and publicist Sandrine Charles, the Black in Fashion Coalition wants to concentrate industry efforts to fight racism through...

Printed Matter, Inc., the leading NYC-based non-profit artists’ book organization, has announced the launch of I Was In The Middle Before I Knew That I Had Begun, a new curated series of Fundraising Editions featuring artists Moyra Davey, Coco Fusco, David Horvitz, Joseph Kosuth and Louise Lawther. The new series comes as a response to the...

In a day and age where Coronavirus has forced us to cancel the vast majority of the world’s cultural events, the confirmation of the Bangkok Art Biennale’s second edition, which will run from 29 October 2020 until 31 January 2021, couldn’t be more reassuring. Under the theme ‘Escape Routes’, this year’s artists will lend their vision to challenge...

Art and cuisine have for some time been complementary, so much that an aesthetic presentation of a dish sometimes supersedes the actual experience of, well, eating it. However, until now, the artistic vein of the gastronomy industry had not yet manifested itself through the utensils one uses to dine with, until the Dutch creative duo formed by Martin...

The Earth Issue, a collective of artists and creatives working towards a greener planet, has temporarily put environmental issues aside to raise funds for a different global matter, in aid of the fight against the oppressing systematic racism enrooted in the US and UK societies. Set-up in response to the current turmoiled political climate, propelled by...

The British Fashion Council launched the Institute of Positive Fashion (IPF) website in recognition of World Ocean Day. The site aims at bringing together global resources, information and campaigns to help businesses increase knowledge and embrace sustainable and people-led best practices.   To tie in with this launch and World Ocean Day, Cyrill...

It was the summer of 1976 when American photographer Gary Green moved from the humdrum suburbs of Long Island to a two-bedroom apartment in Lower Manhattan, the epicentre of the up and coming anarchistic wave of music known as ‘punk’, to work as a photographer assistant. Coincidentally it was also the year the Ramones released their first album and punk idols Patti Smith, Television and Richard...

Issey Miyake released an unpublished docu-film that shows the birth and evolution of the collection Homme Plissé Issey Miyake and shares a message of freedom, movement and comfort as new codes for men's clothing.Opening with a scene from Flying Bodies, a video that captures the 2013 performance of the Aomori University Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics Team which marks the debut of the collection, the...

Italian sole-leather brand Cuoio di Toscana, alongside many companies and institutions of fashion and luxury leather goods, shared their the commitment to defend women. “Violence against women does not go into quarantine: at the expense of the current moment of emergency, the numbers affecting this social injury show no sign of diminishing and, if we consider the case of domestic violence in...

“When you think of your insides, do you imagine a river or a volcano or … ? What is pleasure without climax? Can there be art without ego?”   In the opening essay of ‘Hindsight’, Yale School of Art’s 2020 MFA Photography graduate show which launched last week, writer and visual artist Carmen Winant poses a series of “Questions for...

In our newly-minted column on independent brands, our favourite 'Instagram Scouter' Amanda Ballerini talks shoes, cinema and what they represent and eventually become, with independent brand Il Traffico's designer Marco Antonio Marra.I first discovered Marco Antonio Marra's work some months ago via Instagram. At the time, his page called' Il Traffico' was a project in development, physical...

Levi’s, the brand behind the iconic blue denim, has been quite active on Instagram. Over the last few weeks, music and denim fans alike have been tuning in and rocking out to the brand’s 5:01 Live series on Instagram for live-streamed concerts, panel talks and customization sessions. Today, they celebrate the birthday of their iconic 501 blue jean with live performances from around Europe and...

With half of the world’s population under some form of lockdown to slow the spread of Covid-19, most activities have been dramatically curtailed, including illegal ones. Official figures suggest that crime has plummeted in many big cities.    Despite this, an official report by The Economist has revealed that,...

While it might be a while before robots become part of public physical life – entities we’d run into while doing our groceries or on the subway – human to robot (H2R) interaction has progressively become a reality. Current radical developments in engineering and AI has evolved H2R at a rapid pace, especially on social media.   The rise in...