Taking a cult literary classic like Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and bringing it to life in film is a trepidatious task, but one that producer Roman Coppola has always wanted to take on — his fat...
I had to sit on Cosmopolis for a day and turn it over in my mind before finishing this review. Directed by David Cronenberg, the film inspired a variety of emotions in me: from excitement to immense ...
Anja Rubik re-launched her bi-annual magazine 25 in Cannes on Wednesday night at the Pierre Cardin Palais Bulles — a private villa that looks like the set of Star Wars meets Boogie Nights, with an aw...
Versailles might be one of the most significant and opulent chateaus in the world, but throw an hour-long queue, unsolicited commentary and a few fanny-packs in the mix and even its charm can wear th...
John Hillcoat’s new film Lawless is a bloodthirsty tale set in Virginia in the prohibition era. It’s adapted from the book The Wettest Country in the World by Matt Bondurant and tells the...
I spoke with Baz Luhrmann at the preview for Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, the spring 2012 exhibition at The Costume Institute at the Met in NY. The exhibition features the work o...
Over the past ten years Tierney Gearon has produced a body of work centred on her family life, starting with the breakthrough exhibition ‘I Am A Camera’ in 2001. Although the series of work was criti...
Novo trazodone/Cipralex. From his ‘Medicated’ series. Richard Kern doesn’t look like the kind of guy who’s spent the last 20 to 25 years taking pictures of young, naked girls. Now in his ...
“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi,” wrote William Faulkner, a native of the state, who suggested that “Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee...
Memorise the name Jack Greer now. You’re going to need to know it, because some time in the not-so-distant future he’s going to be a big deal. Greer lives in New York, where he makes art while design...
Tom Ford belongs to another era: an era in which things are created to last, and great taste and charisma are social currency. While at Gucci and YSL, he led the fashion trends of the late nineties a...
When recruiting subjects for The Real Deal issue, Lake Bell was a natural choice. You see, although Bell is beautiful and talented (she acts, writes and directs), she also knows how to keep it real —...
Global Briefing | Behind the Flurry of Store Openings in Australia Louis Vuitton Maison in Sydney | Source: moluxury.com.au SYDNEY, Australia — 2011 was an extremely busy year for luxury retail expan...
It’s logical that William Eggleston should be a man of few words. The 72-year-old speaks in a laconic southern drawl, and more often than not (in our interview at least) he says very little; though h...
For Oyster Issue #96, Alice Cavanagh, caught up with exhibitionist, publishing magnate and Editor-In-Chief of Purple, Olivier Zahm. Purple launched in 1992 as a reaction to all of the gloss and glamo...
You may not have heard of Léa Seydoux, but you are about to. She was the adorable coquette who flashed her pink knickers in the Prada Candy fragrance campaign. She’s also had some relatively minor pa...
Loulou de la Falaise, right, with Yves Saint Laurent, center, and Betty Catroux outside YSL’s Rive Gauche boutique in London, England, on Sept. 10, 1969., AP Photo One of the great ladies in fa...
Blue is for boys and pink is for girls — or so we are taught from an early age — but as we develop our own tastes, blue is the colour that eventually prevails. After all, it is the colour of the sea,...
John Galliano was convicted yesterday of Anti-Semitic behavior or, more specifically, “public insults toward persons on the basis of their religion or origin.” It makes for a bold headline yet his pe...
New York–based retail phenomenon Opening Ceremony turns ten next year – though its founders, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, have known each other for much longer than that. Best friends as well as busi...
A hot June day in Paris brings the kind of sweltering heat that can make you feel a little bit drunk (not necessarily a bad thing). I’m at a café near La Madeleine, tucked away in a corner and trying...
Imagine being born with an innate sense of superiority; not just a ‘cash money’ sense of superiority, but the royal kind; the kind that comes with great responsibility and — in most cases — a luxurio...
Romance Was Born majestic old room surrounding books, daylight lit the show started late an endless front row I wanted to sing along ‘Goodbye Horses’ models looked like Princess Leia on acid their sh...
It’s been too long! A nice, ripe hunk of Munster — or ‘monster cheese’ as it is often called — can bring about either moans of delight or shouts of horror from any given individual. To evoke th...
Sex is a tricky topic to write about. Many a great writer has tried and sadly failed. So many, in fact, that the UK’s Literary Review has even created an award for Bad Sex in Fiction. Yet whilst ther...
Michael Vandino makes his bed every morning. I know this because I called him on it after watching him hang his Sydney exhibition, That’s Cool But Can You Make It More Sh*t. Despite the haphazard, lo...
The world wide web has been taken by the storm that is JTL, or Johnny The Lad to those who don’t like to use acronyms. He is a man of wisdom, with a truckload of sneakers; and in his blog http:...
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magni...
This week I attended a close friend’s wedding, and had to give a speech. It was a baptism of fire – so to speak – into the world of public speaking, and it would be fair to say that...
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