FKA twigs has announced that she’s working on her first TV series, a martial arts-based show for FX. “It’s like a martial arts TV series which is very much centred around outsiders,” twigs explains, in a new interview with Michaela Coel for
The Face. “And the idea of wanting to fit in but not being able to.”
“I’ve been putting a lot of research into the way that the Black community and the Chinese martial arts community have a really deep connection,” she continues. “It goes into music: the Wu-Tang Clan came together almost through martial arts.”
He may be one of the most celebrated American painters of the day, but Henry Taylor’s first encounter with fine art was seeing the paintings on the walls of the grand homes his mother cleaned for a living. Now, as his inaugural exhibition for Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, the Los Angeles-based artist will take over all five of the gallery’s West Country locations to present a major body of sculptural work and paintings.
Born in 1958, his introduction to paint itself could be attributed to his father, who decorated local bars and houses and who, for a time, worked for the US government as a commercial painter on the naval air station in Ventura, California. Taylor didn’t begin formally studying art until he’d reached his 30s, when he became a student at the California Institute of Fine Arts. During this time, he made ends meet by also working full time as a psychiatric technician at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital, where he made portraits of his schizophrenic and bipolar patients.
24February 2021
Yesterday London Fashion Week came to a close. Ending the season on a high was Priya Ahluwalia who became the fourth recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design.
In recognition of her work in sustainability and diversity, the menswear designer, who heads up her eponymous label Ahluwalia, was presented the award by Countess of Wessex on behalf of the queen. During the ceremony, which took place virtually due to pandemic restrictions, Ahluwalia was praised for “her active contribution to changing the industry for the better.”
Ahluwalia has been strongly committed to sustainability from the very beginnings of her career. For her Westminster MA show in 2018 she presented a collection shining a light on fashion’s massive overconsumption. Last year, she paid tribute to the “everyday beauty and strength of Black existence” in her documentary-style GucciFest film,
How Jawara Went From Helping Out at His Aunt's Salon to Becoming a World-Renowned Hairstylist
With stints assisting just about every top hairstylist in fashion along the way.
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With stints assisting just about every top hairstylist in fashion along the way.
In our long-running series "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion and beauty industries about how they broke in and found success.
In the world of high-fashion hairstyling, it's fairly common to have a mononym — Guido, Luigi, Odile. Plenty of the top artists are known primarily by their first names alone. So, too, is a slightly more recent addition to this cohort: Jawara.