Portrait by Louise Riley

In a business where designers often become figureheads for large corporations, to be rolled out when a perfume or handbag needs promoting, Christophe Lemaire is an unusually outspoken exception to the rule.

Keywords: Intimacy and dress, Jean Jaurès, Looking smart, Minimalism, On Slowness

Opinion

Being Modern: Alexander Liberman

August 4, 2015

By Lucy Sisman

Why does Alexander Liberman still matter sixteen years after his death? For anyone under thirty and not in the magazine...

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Fiction

Pyjama Shirt

July 21, 2015

By Alice Blackhurst

With photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans

I started going round to his for dinner at the end of autumn, when the leaves were on the point...

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Interview

Conversations on Slowness

On Being Painted into a Corner and Getting Stuck

July 13, 2015

By Anja Aronowsky Cronberg

Portrait by Louise Riley

Hussein Chalayan became known as a ‘conceptual designer’ in the 1990s and it’s been bugging him ever since. Rather than...

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Fiction

String Theory Sutra

June 30, 2015

By Brenda Hillman

With artworks by Sarah Charlesworth

In writing of experience or beauty, a cloth emerges as if made from a twin existence. It’s July 4: air...

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Fiction

The New Dress

Excerpt from Virginia Woolf's 1927 short story

June 22, 2015

By Virginia Woolf

With paintings by artist Domenico Gnoli.

But she dared not look in the glass. She could not face the whole horror – the pale yellow, idiotically...

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Fiction

Layers

June 16, 2015

By Alexandra Cronberg

With stills from Robert Whitman's 'Flower', 1963.

Some days she flicks through the clothes hangers but finds nothing to wear. She doesn’t find it because she does...

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