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The art of getting dressed Rachel Cooke The fashion writer Charlie Porter has always been a compulsive reader of the language of clothes, his eye drawn irresistibly to the colour of a stranger’s coat; to the cut of their suit or the logo on their trainers. “I think everyone’s a bit like that,” he says. “We all do it, all the time. Clothes are information. A policeman’s uniform tells you what he does. If you feel threatened or out of place, it’s often clothing that gives you this sense first. But because I’ve worked in fashion, I suppose I’m particularly attun...

Sue-an van der Zijpp appointed as new Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at Boijmans Sue-an van der Zijpp worked at Groninger Museum. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn. ROTTERDAM .- The collection of decorative arts and design at the Boijmans is to have a new custodian and exhibition creator. The former Groninger Museum curator Sue-an van der Zijpp is making the switch to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam this summer. Sue-an van der Zijpp (b. 1971) takes up her post on July 1st as the new curator of Decorative Arts and Design, taking over the baton from Mienke Simon Thomas, who has served in...

Words: Eugene Rabkin Highsnobiety Q1 is the latest in a series of quarterly insight weeks dedicated to the business behind youth culture and what makes our market tick. Head over to our Insights hub to see the full series. In 1999, The New Yorker released one of its most iconic articles ever published. In “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” the late chef Anthony Bourdain spilled trade secrets of the restaurant industry. In doing so he poetically painted a picture of what it’s really like being a chef, to those who rarely get a glimpse behind the scenes. In this FRONTPAGE feature, vete...

Debut and Post, the coming-of-age albums of the now 55-year-old Icelandic musician Björk, are a great showcase of the kind of mark she is leaving, with each song, on the world of music.  When her punk-rock band, the Sugarcubes, dismantled in late December 1992, Björk took her talents to London and embarked on a solo career where she immersed herself in the culture of the place and took inspiration from the city’s underground club scene. Debut and Post were most certainly a move away from the alternative rock sounds of the Sugarcubes.  Her move to the UK was a creative decision and a ...