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Silvia Bombardini on the revolutionary potential of the counterfeit
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Silvia Bombardini on the revolutionary potential of the counterfeit

Inflatable tanks made by fashion designers, aviation archaeologists, and the secondhand shop as method

Alex Harsley is in his 80s, but still uploading video art to YouTube almost every single day

Bringing 300-year old brushes to Paris and why getting lost in Tokyo reaps the best rewards

The brand new London label whose design ethos is a complete rejection of reference

The London-based knitwear designer gives us the story behind her Spring-Summer 2027 collection, from deconstructed knitting to peasant revolts

The Pope's tailor, where to find €10 Hermès, and the old-school shops you cannot miss in Rome

Wearing museum collections, mouldy malls and big hats made from tiny planes

As the industrial revolution transformed textiles in 18th-century Lancashire, it also destroyed the parallel practice of weavers' floristry

On dressing as devotion, debt, and delirium

The artist who made masks of the London art scene on what makes a show a show

We went to a dirt eating event and all we got was a craving for clay

Velvet flowers, lizard shoes and the strange feeling that everything is closing down

Art and fashion's uneasy relationship, one oft framed as 'critique', traps us in a feedback loop that reinforces the hierarchies of capitalism

Designer and educator Shelley Fox talks to Dal Chodha about loans, Louise Wilson, and why the romantic “fuzzy VHS” memory of 1990s London hides a far tougher reality

Stuff for the street, town clothes and some 1980s trend reportage.

Where to find the best Greek folk craft, old and new, from Sacrificium’s Celia Phillips

On Instagram, the flat lay constructs an archival logic, intellectualising fashion and masking its commercial edge.

Armoured knitwear, bad exhibitions and a really good video about floors

Vintage shop twos takes us through their debut trend proposition for 2026: rent-less commerce on the streets of London