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Rapid Response Collecting at the V&A

Katie Perry’s false eyelashes, a 3D-printed gun, Primark jeans and Christian Louboutin shoes are the latest additions to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection. We

Design

From Club to Catwalk

Bodymap, A/W 1984, model: Scarlett Cannon (image: Monica Curtin) It’s striking how few of the London fashion scene’s enfants terribles are still household names today,

Opinion

Mahani: Dubai’s first fashion concept store

“My brief was to provide the antithesis of the slick retail experience you find in Dubai,” says London-based designer Faye Toogood on her design for

Design

Pharrell Williams: Places and Spaces I’ve Been

(image: Francesco Allegretto/Venice Projects; Galerie Perrotin) In his new book, the R&B renaissance man invites us into his world – along with Zaha Hadid, Anna Wintour

Opinion

British Design, 1948-2012

The V&A’s tour through British design takes the 1948 “Austerity Olympics” as its starting point. As such, the exhibition tries to draw a tidy circle

Opinion

London Fashion Week

One of the easiest ways for designers to get fashion journalists to convince consumers to spend the big bucks on a Dolce & Gabbana dress

Opinion

Fashion East

In our unthinking imagining of life under socialism, the picture that comes to mind is a certain grim drabness of appearance, a certain uniformity, and

Opinion

Profile: Issey Miyake

“I have never called myself a fashion designer,” says Issey Miyake. It sounds like a contradiction from someone who has been designing clothes for 40

Design

Future Beauty

A few months ago Kieran Long published a review in Icon about the Venice Biennale (089, November 2010). “Finding history and philosophy bewildering, she looked

Opinion

Building Fashion by Boffo

The space formerly occupied by a rental office for Neil Denari’s newly completed HL23 tower in Manhattan has been transformed into a stage for exhibiting

Design

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Kasthall and Barber Osgerby debut Atlas and Bonbon rug collections for Milan Design Week

Arkitek & Noom 30: Redefining Professional Connection

OSWELL by INCLASS

Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle




Architects

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

YOD Group designs contemporary Ukrainian mazanka guesthouses

Luca A. Caizzi explores Milan through metal surfaces in new book

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

MoDusArchitects completes contemporary Alpine home in Val di Non

Fondazione MAST kicks off 7th edition of Foto/Industria with a citywide exploration into the meaning of home

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way


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Kasthall and Barber Osgerby debut Atlas and Bonbon rug collections for Milan Design Week

Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle

Design Interventions reshape Clerkenwell Design Week for its 15th edition

Editor’s Picks: The Scandinavian design launches from Stockholm Design Days



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Kasthall and Barber Osgerby debut Atlas and Bonbon rug collections for Milan Design Week

Arkitek & Noom 30: Redefining Professional Connection

OSWELL by INCLASS

Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle