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at home: Artists in Conversation Join us for lively and inspiring conversations with some of today’s most notable artists.  at home: Artists in Conversation brings together curators and artists to discuss various artistic practices and insights into their work. About Grace Wales Bonner Wales Bonner launched her label in 2014, after graduating from Central Saint Martins. Established as a menswear brand, Wales Bonners soulful tailoring soon expanded to womenswear. In 2015, she was awarded Em...

Sunday 2 May 2021 An artists rendition of actress Lorraine Toussaint and writer Ingrid Persaud for the Alexander app. PHOTOS COURTESY GIA KUAN During his lifetime, John “Boysie” Singh was a womaniser, gambling king, arsonist, preacher, pirate, thief, human trafficker, gangster, smuggler and mass murderer. In a feature titled The Vagabond Rajah, which is exclusive to the Alexander app, award-winning Trinidadian author Ingrid Persaud has chosen to tell some of Singh’s story. “I have been...

In Memoriam: Remembering Weinbrenner’s Lance Nienow and More Footwear Industry Legends FN Staff April 16, 2021: Lance R. Nienow, the former president and CEO of Weinbrenner Shoe Company Inc., died on April 11 at the age of 77. The footwear executive spent an impressive 50 years with the Weinbrenner organization. He joined the company in 1970 and rose through the ranks, holding positions in human resources, purchasing and operations, before he was named president in 1992. He he...

Share this article Share this article LONDON, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- London based fashion brand Self-Portrait has today unveiled its latest campaign with a series of portraits starring British model Kate Moss, wearing some of the brands most treasured styles and revealing key pieces from its Autumn Winter 2021 Pre-Collection. Kate Moss for Self Portrait © Self-Portrait (PRNewsfoto/Self Portrait) Kate Moss for Self Portrait © Self-Portrait Kate Moss for Self Portrait © Self-Portrait ...

Seetal Solanki Seetal Solanki is the founder and Director of Ma-tt-er, a relational practice focused on building and bridging kinships between ourselves, materials, the immaterial and virtual. Her work at Ma-tt-er reorients mindsets, behaviours and mechanisms towards futures that are caring and respectful by providing ecological and nuanced strategies that are biodiverse, inclusive and response-able. Author of "Why Materials Matter" (2018), a Textiles Tutor at the Royal College ...

For a time as a teenager, Brendan Courtney thought he might want to be an actor. But then the TV presenter realised something. “I didn’t want to play a role being somebody else. I’ve spent so long trying to be myself,” he says, sitting in the sunny apartment he shares with boyfriend Adam Maryniak, who he met seven years ago in Mother nightclub. “I knew so many closeted actors, and I always felt it placed more layers on them.”  Instead, after school he worked in accountancy, then p...

For a time as a teenager, Brendan Courtney thought he might want to be an actor. But then the TV presenter realised something. “I didn’t want to play a role being somebody else. I’ve spent so long trying to be myself,” he says, sitting in the sunny apartment he shares with boyfriend Adam Maryniak, who he met seven years ago in Mother nightclub. “I knew so many closeted actors, and I always felt it placed more layers on them.” Instead, after school he worked in accountancy, then pro...

Ayesha A. Siddiqi Selects: Goom Heo, Kali, Reyanna Maria & More Trend Forecaster Ayesha A. Siddiqi on the Creators to Watch Right Now 2021-03-17 14:50 in StyleWords By Highsnobiety Highsnobiety Highsnobiety’s Honors Week is a celebration of the women — particularly the trans and BIPOC women — who have pushed our culture forward. This Women’s History Month, we’ve tapped six guest curators to go deep on the issues they care about and to spotlight their favorite women and nonbinary crea...

Share Fashion stylist Isabel Bonner debuted her first collection of jewelry, under the banner Isabel Bonner Studio, in 2018—and is part of a mounting wave of apparel designers and fashion stylists who’ve turned to creating jewelry. The highest-profile example of this trend is top fashion stylist Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert, who was named creative director for Swarovski last year and has since debuted her first collection. But the list also includes former fashion designer Diva Pittala, who...

Share Professor Ruth Cameron from Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy is one of twelve winners of this year’s Suffrage Science awards. She and the other winners will be honoured at an online celebration today, the tenth anniversary of the scheme. This will be the fifth Suffrage Science awards for engineering and physical sciences. Ten years ago, Professor Dame Amanda Fisher, Director of the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (then Clinical Sciences Centre), and ...