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Clothes sizes

Why do we have a system that puts women into supposedly standard categories without providing measurements? It’s time to “unsize”, says Open NY When buying clothes,

Opinion

The puffa jacket

From UK high streets to the playgrounds of the international jet set, why does everyone want to get trussed up like a DayGlo Michelin Man,

Design

A taste of Bethan Laura Wood – ‘It’s about controlling colour without stifling it’

With her fantastical wardrobe and exuberant patterns, the east London designer was always going to get noticed. But behind the giant fruits and rainbow eyeliner

Design

The Apple Watch: What do you think?

The media reaction to yesterday’s announcements by the tech giant has centred around its cost and impending obsolescence. But we want to know what you

Opinion

Guy Bourdin

John Jervis welcomes a retrospective that focuses on the photographer’s 1970s heyday – when his sharp, surreal images helped to define the fashion industry In

Opinion

Dark matter: Designing for privacy

Thinkers in art, technology, fashion and product design are responding to the threat of mass surveillance with a range of privacy-conscious gadgets that have a

Design

Horst: Photographer of Style

The fashion photographer’s dramatic lighting and stylised sets created fantastical images that epitomise a period, says Fatema Ahmed In 1933, the Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkácsi

Opinion

Women Fashion Power at the Design Museum

Twenty-six women have contributed outfits to this Zaha Hadid-designed exhibition about the empowering effects of fashion. But the clothes seem somewhat meaningless without their wearer

Opinion

Mannequins: A guide to dummies

In design and retail, the faces of mannequins are often featureless, their bodies reduced to torsos. At museums such as the V&A, they are sawn,

Design

Workwear: Uniforms of the future

Faye Toogood: Workers of the World Unite Faye Toogood, Issey Miyake, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Vivienne Westwood are among those who have designed

Design

Editor's choice

Sabine Marcelis takes centre stage at Zurich’s Museum für Gestaltung

Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity




Architects

MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Atelier HA designs MELT’s new Panthéon restaurant in Paris

‘We have a moral obligation to experiment’: Bas Smets unveils Vitra’s new Water Garden

Open House Festival opens hundreds of London buildings this September

The contemporary Magdalen House in Quebec brings a new perspective to coastal architecture

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York


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Sabine Marcelis takes centre stage at Zurich’s Museum für Gestaltung

Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design



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Sabine Marcelis takes centre stage at Zurich’s Museum für Gestaltung

Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity