Blackbird mending kit, impractical practicality

The Blackbird Men’s mending kit won’t win any award for practicality. It’s not exactly travel friendly and won’t fit easily into your overnight bag, nor can its glass container be trusted to the misshandling your luggage will undoubtedly suffer at an airport. For at-home use though, the kit will serve double duty as a usable piece of decoration. Contained inside you’ll find a selection of needles, buttons & a measuring tape amongst many...

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Dior by Demarchelier

No, the famed photographer isn’t taking on the what seems to be fast becoming the least wanted job in the industry. Instead Patrick Demarchelier’s latest photo book is a tremendous photo essay of Dior’s Couture story to date. Spanning the house’s entire couture history, the book will encompass designs from Christian Dior himself, the work of Yves Saint Laurent and the now controversial yet undeniably talented John Galliano. The book features...

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Childhood magic and My Little Pony

Some childhood things stay magical forever. If the 1980s was your decade, that magic was probably fed to you in a diet of colourful ’80s TV shows and cartoons, from pastel-coloured My Little Ponies to Rainbow Brite and her horse Starlite, who could gallop across rainbows (and, I always thought, beat any of the Little Ponies hands down in a fight). If you have a fountain of nostalgia welling up inside you at the mere mention of such ’80s classics,...

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Weekend read: the birth, death and rebirth of Jacques magazine

“Jacques was attempting to recreate an aesthetic that died years ago in an industry that is collapsing in a medium that is declining…” What happened to Jacques Magazine, the print world’s bold return to vintage-style erotica? From the crumbling relationship of its founders, to the crumbling of the title itself, Jacques has had a bumpy ride. Jacques Magazine #3 shoot by Jonathan Leder (NSFW) Over at Brooklyn Ink, Jonathan...

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