Things to see in August: John Hoyland and Ed Ruscha at Tate



Pay Nothing Until April by Ed Ruscha

Some additions to my list of things to see and do this month.

Ed Ruscha (above) is the latest artist showing at Tate Modern’s Artist Rooms gallery, in the Blavatnik building. Running until spring 2020, the free exhibition will feature work from his vast six-decade output, including the famous text-based paintings (my favourites). See more here.

Meanwhile, Tate Britain has a display of John Hoyland paintings going up (more…)



Buy it now: Chinti & Parker X Peanuts



Chinti and Parker Peanuts

If you’re a Peanuts fan, you’ll love this Chinti & Parker X Peanut collab that’s just dropped. I have to say that certain pop culture brands do wayyyyy too many collabs, it’s rendered them meaningless (*cough* Disney). I grew up with Mickey and Minnie as iconic symbols of classic Americana but over the years they have lost a lot of the magic.

The beauty of this Chinti & Parker X Peanuts collaboration is the designs are well considered (more…)



Wardrobe NYC – The denim edit (updated)



Shop the post - Wardrobe NYC trench coat


Wardobe.NYC
released its latest ‘denim edit’ last month. I wrote about it here.

The USP of Wardrobe.NYC is a system of ‘packs’, aka capsule edits of four or eight classic pieces that you buy as a set. Until now. (more…)



Quote of the day: Marc Jacobs



Marc Jacobs by Irving Penn 2001

“A younger audience seeing things with fresh eyes isn’t looking for origin or reason. I always looked for origin. I wanted to know where the Adolfo tweed jacket came from. It came from Chanel. I wanted to know where the Chanel one came from. It came from a fisherman. I loved that. It was part of the seduction of anything. How did these things come to be? (more…)