Leyla Aliyeva
February 14, 2012
If you can’t get to Baku to see cutting-edge post-soviet art, Azerbaijan’s first daughter is planning to bring it to you—one globe-hopping project at a time
Tom Cullen
September 24, 2011
Tom Cullen, London’s latest anti-it-Brit.
Diego Della Valle
February 22, 2011
It all started with a pair of driving shoes, but five decades later, the Milanese tycoon behind the T0d’s fashion empire has been the patron saint of dreaming big, Italian-style
Andrea Riseborough
February 21, 2011
Andrea Riseborough likes her characters steeped in history. It’s no surprise, then, that the résumé of the 29-year-old actress—who grew up in Northern England and graduated from London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art—reads like a syllabus for a 20th-century British history course.
Limoncello Gallery
November 18, 2010
Rebecca May Marston’s London art space tackles the age-old dilemma of how to squeeze big art into small places
James Lavelle
August 20, 2010
The British trip-hop pioneer’s new exhibition brings together an all-star audio-visual club james lavelle in london, may 2010. all clothing: artist’s own.
Gildo Zegna
April 27, 2010
Ambitious new stores, limited-edition fabrics, expansion in China—Ermenegildo Zegna’s grandson has big plans to celebrate the luxury menswear company’s 100th anniversary. But first he’s got to get into his birthday suit.
Robert Sheehan
February 22, 2010
The non-stop traveling escapades of actor and young Irish rogue-in-the-making.
Garance Dore
January 12, 2010
French fashion blogger Garance Doré’s story is the tale of a girl with a sketchbook, a camera, an attitude, and a dream. Garance Doré is possibly the fashion world’s most closely followed blogger. Her site, Une Fille Comme Moi (“A girl like me,” which can be found at garancedore.fr) clocks an average of 50,000 hits per day.
Alexander McQueen
December 2, 2009
Paris, October 6, backstage at the Spring/Summer 2010 show
Olympia Scarry
August 14, 2009
This globe-trotting blonde grew up in a children’s book. Now that she’s come of age, she’s busting out with her industrial multimedia art projects and the first subject she’s taking on is the emotional gap between men and women
Olly Alexander
April 24, 2009
Olly Alexander grew up touring amusement parks, which proved to be the perfect background for his roller-coaster film career.
Tom Payne
February 18, 2009
Tom Payne is done acting like a teenager.
Heartbreak
February 17, 2009
Not everyone gets the half-Argentine, half-English pop duo Heartbreak.
Does it Offend You, Yeah?
November 29, 2008
Just when you thought the long-lamented practice of guys quoting The Office had begun its final descent down the great swirling drain of pop culture, along comes Does It Offend You, Yeah? to scoop it out, dry it off, and give it life once again.
Rafi Gavron
November 24, 2008
Rafi Gavron’s breakthrough performance came in Breaking and Entering, the 2006 drama from the late Anthony Minghella in which the actor relied heavily on his gazelle-like physicality to play an agile thief. But it’s the 19-year-old’s role in the new comedy Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, a joyride through the musical heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which just might make him a star.
Laurence Graff
November 24, 2008
He made a fortune in rare, artistic gems. Now the dashing London tycoon is spending it to amass one of the most impressive contemporary art collections in the world. For this collector, you buy what you love. But love is usually complicated.
Late Of The Pier
November 22, 2008
Sometimes the people best qualified to re-create the past are those who never actually experienced it the first time around. This is true of the young synthesizer-wielding upstarts who make up Late of the Pier.
Bernard-Henri Levy
November 21, 2008
The infamous French thinker may hit both war zones and fashion parties, but he’s dead set on changing the world order, and the idea that left is always right.