Money Killed Fashion. Then Bought the Met Gala.

Money Killed Fashion. Then Bought the Met Gala.

Luxury didn’t collapse. It didn’t decay. It didn’t betray itself.Luxury simply followed the money and then quietly locked the door behind it. For years, fashion told itself this was progress. Higher prices meant higher meaning. Exclusivity meant excellence. If fewer...
From Duchamp to Demna

From Duchamp to Demna

When a urinal became art and a hoodie became luxury, something truly magical happened — context started printing money. Luxury Readymade: When Context Costs £1,590 Once upon a time, Marcel Duchamp bought a urinal, signed it R. Mutt,...
Spray Nation

Spray Nation

Spray Nation shares unseen photos of New York’s pioneering graffiti artists Women on Train, 1981. All photographs © Martha Cooper, from Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs by Martha Cooper, Edited by Roger Gastman © Prestel Verlag, Munich · London · New...

Devo: “Kraftwerk from the waist up, Elvis Presley from the hips down” Gerard Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh on being bombarded by hippies at Knebworth in 1978, being told off by Neil Young, and their unreleased jam sessions with Bowie and Eno in Cologne We are Devo …...