HOMME+ hero Paul Weller celebrated new album SONIK KICKS for the first time in America hosted by designer John Varvatos. Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of Weller's first New York Show at legendary punk club CBGB's which now houses John Varvatos' famed 315 Bowery Boutique. A FEW THINGS NOT TO BE MISSED -Look out for the [...]

Prospectus '14 Bauhausbücher' by László Moholy-Nagy, 1928 – Black and red print on white paper with wire binding © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany LILS and I went to the Barbican to see the Bauhaus exhibition, over 400 works from that famous school's 14 year history before it scattered across the world. We chuckled because we [...]

Today’s POP is Alice and Tash, Hanging with His Royal Highness…     As summer (supposedly) approaches and the festival season looms, it is about now that the music pundits proclaim ‘the Sound of 2012’. Thus, we’d like to introduce King Charles. Not only a pianist, cellist and pertinent lyricist, with an idiosyncratic style and [...]

Today's POP is Vanessa, Laserblasted.       22     As the demand for high quality denim increases, brands like Superfine, Levi's and REPLAY constantly push boundaries of production techniques in the attempt of constructing the perfect pair of denim. Seeking fresh and original designs, the brands respond to fluxing technological and environmental issues. [...]

Pachanga Boys were genius. playing rounders on the dodgy rough terrain was fun. the pub with the girls wearing cheap fabric was an experience. This was my weekend. for the rest of it I plan to sit on the bench in the kitchen drinking small cups of coffee regularly, listening to Patrick Parole and tracks [...]

Today’s POP is Rachel. British Summer Time.           Today the V&A celebrate the reopening of their regenerated ‘Room 40: Fashion’ galleries with a new exhibition, Ballgowns: British Glamour since 1950. Taking a look at the Queen’s Jubilee years with an eye for glitz and ritz, curators Oriole Cullen and Sonnet Stanfill [...]

Today’s POP is Lily. The unbearable lightness of being…       “My sculptures are suspended somewhere between a search for perfection and an awareness of its fragility and its precariousness. My work, on the other hand, tries to take flight upwards whilst constituting a descent into the depths of my psyche.”   The work [...]

Phil has ended his return to the bottle through declarations of unending love and affection for Shirley, her lips suddenly got fuller, pumped up with a burst of blushed claret at the thought of all that catch-up/make-up love making with a sober but still angry Phil. And now Phil is onto Ian…snarling across the square [...]