Oct 18, 2022
Inspiration
Everything you need to know about Balenciaga, Vetements, and Demna Gvasalia
Let’s explain the situation. When Vetements debuted its Fall/Winter 2015–2016 collection in 2015 in Paris’ Le Dépôt club, a sacred site for the city’s underground gay community, it generated a stir that has only grown in popularity since.
Oct 17, 2022
Black In Fashion
The fashion industry’s most dramatic color’s hidden meanings
Wearing black has long been a symbol of authority, rebellion, death, sex, and other things – It’s “the most slimming of colours”, said Christian Dior. “It affirms, designs and styles,” said Yves Saint-Laurent.
Oct 16, 2022
Georgian designer
Demna Gvasalia – desire to disappear
The artistic director of Balenciaga continually reveals himself in his daring, culture-altering work, even as he occasionally tries to disappear.
Oct 15, 2022
Iconic Queen
How the Queen came to be a fashion symbol
The Queen has experienced significant societal change over her 70 years in power, as well as previously unimaginable scientific and technological advances and – unavoidably – the development, decline, and reemergence of innumerable fashion fads.
Oct 12, 2022
By BBC Culture
The 10 best books of 2022 – Part 2
Introducing the top 10 books of 2022 compiled by BBC Culture , Part II.
Oct 11, 2022
By BBC Culture
The 10 best books of 2022 – Part 1
Introducing the top 10 books of 2022 compiled by BBC Culture.
Oct 9, 2022
A turbulent century
Contemporary Ukrainian writers and their opinions
Nina Murray talked about the country’s literature. “There’s a long-standing humorous tradition [in Lviv], because it’s always been a mixed city where different classes of people made fun of each other. But also the Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem is from Lviv and he was a great humorist. I’m biased because I’m from there [too]!”
Oct 9, 2022
Explosion on Crimean bridge
Russian war effort in Ukraine suffers setback after attack on Crimean bridge deals
Russia’s capacity to conduct war in southern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces have been waging an increasingly successful counteroffensive, might be hampered by any obstruction to commerce on the bridge.
Oct 8, 2022
Ukraine
A bridge of cultures
Writing from Ukraine that focuses on the current wars According to Dralyuk, Lyuba Yakimchuk is one of the country’s most important modern poets – “was a refugee from Donbas, from the war zone, and she has written very movingly about that experience”. Her 2016 poem Crow, Wheels highlights the apparent never-ending escalation of conflict: “When the city was destroyed, / they started fighting over the cemetery.”