Barcelona Fashion Week

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Masters of Style: Celebrating the Stories Behind Italian Fashion

The other day I went to the private view of the new exhibition, Masters of Style: Celebrating the Stories Behind Italian Fashion, being shown at Somerset House. A succinct exhibition hailing classic advertising imagery from six selected famous Italian brand archives: Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, missoni, Salvatore Ferragamo, Gucci and Giorgio Armani. The exhibition was curated by acclaimed fashion journalist Colin McDowell. Here...

Damien Hirst x Supreme

In 2009 British sensationalist artist Damien Hirst designed a set of eight of skateboard deck designs for New York based cult street and skate label, Supreme. The decks feature Hirst’s signature motifs – three show paint spun decks, resembling the artist’s Spin series - where canvases were spun under paint projected from a centrifugal force creating a layered random yet controlled effect; and five are from the Pharmaceutical...

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

This week I've been in New York, and yesterday I went to see the incredible Alexander McQueen retrospective, named Savage Beauty at the MET. Here's a little of what I saw... ...

The month of May

Having been in something of a cultural void of late, due to all things running related (to find out more, take a look at my other blog, here) I have missed exhibitions and art a-plenty. But now I'm back on it, and have been making up for lost time by touring the city's galleries. Here are a few of my favourite exhibitions... Matthew Day Jackson. Everything Leads to Another, at Hauser and Wirth, Savile Row I've been...

Hit+Run, Windows Phone 7 & Rough Trade present Kutmah: The New Error V. 2 launch party

If you're in London this week and you want to hear music by one of LA's most exciting creative exports, then head down to Rough Trade records where Kutmah is hosting the first in a series of summer events. After a poignant exhibition, Two Soups and a Honey Bun showing evocative drawings made whilst being detained in US Customs, Kutmah follows up by releasing his second mix (a sample from which you can listen to here) and...

L'Orient des Femmes, curated by Christian Lacroix

Whilst you're in Paris, also make the time to visit the L'Orient des Femmes exhibition curated by Christian Lacroix. A vast collection of ethnic embroidered kaftans from Syria and the surrounding areas.  L'Orient des Femmes runs until May 15th 2011Musee du Quai Branly37 Quai Branly75007 Pariswww.quaibranly...