Friday, 14 February 2025

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At 25, Anora’s enigmatic lead could become the youngest best actress winner in over a decade. She’s just trying to enjoy the moment. (GQ)

“They All Love Puck, When It’s Not About Them.”
It’s Lauren Sherman’s business to know your business. (System)

Where the Dealmakers and Strivers Get Their Gossip 
Emily Sundberg’s business newsletter, Feed Me, has made her a rising Substack star. (NYT) 

5 Top Maître d’s Reveal the Tricks of Their Trade
Want to dine at the world’s chicest restaurants? These are the names you need to know. (W Magazine)

Where Did All the Good Bars Go?
Let’s acknowledge one thing that is true: There’s a crisis in the modern drinking world. (Esquire)

Rom-Coms, Rain and Burberry: David Lane on How His New Campaign Taps Into a Very British Trio
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, creative director David Lane tells us how the comfort film genre made the perfect basis for the campaign, which weaves together love stories of some very well-dressed Londoners. 
(It's Nice That)

Take an All-Access Backstage Tour of the 2025 GQ Bowl Fashion Show
Go behind the scenes as designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla prepared to unveil the Bode Rec. spring 2025 collection on the runway in New Orleans. (GQ)

In Tokyo with the renowned author and authority on Japanese and American clothing and contemporary culture. (Drake's)

Melbourne Menswear Label Front Office Turned Its Online Success Into a Physical Shop
Turning his satirical side project into a contemporary menswear label, designer Ken Sakata is getting serious about fashion. Front Office’s first bricks-and-mortar store completes the evolution. (Broadsheet)

Life With Colbo
How do one manage to stand out as something genuinely cool and original in the vast ocean of things and people that is New York City? Frankly, we have no clue. But Tal Silberstein and Eldar Hadad do. They run Colbo, which is … well, it’s a bit hard to pin down. (Another Aspect)

What Thurston Moore Can’t Live Without
We asked musician Thurston Moore - whose album Flow Critical Lucidity is out now - about the fox-deterring fertiliser, guitar picks, and German foot cream he can’t live without. (The Strategist)

17 Items With Martyn Bootyspoon
Linking up with Jason, a Montreal-based DJ and producer, to look at his crazy merch collection, colourful outerwear, and other gear he's currently obsessed with. (Street Night Live)

Grinder
For three decades, from 1954, Jens Quistgaard designed many different pepper grinders. This website is collating them, with lovely photos and design notes. (Present & Correct)

Art Gallery Gift Shops: Ranked!
In the need of some retail therapy to beat the seasonal depression? What better place to do so than art gallery and museum gift shops. Dora Densham Bond has compiled the ultimate guide… (Plaster)

A Legendary Photographer On Reviving the Website That Defined a Bygone Era, Subcultures Before Instagram, and the Lost Art of Gatekeeping
Tim Barber started Tiny Vices as an online showcase for photography that galleries and magazines wouldn't touch. 20 years later, he talks to Chris Black about a new retrospective of photography from the now-iconic platform, and why we crave human curation more than ever. (GQ)

Revisit: The Making of Mind Field
Heath Kirchart, Dylan Rieder, Jake Johnson, Omar Salazar, AVE, Dill, and more making Alien Workshop’s Mind Field, through the photographic lens of Greg Hunt. (Monster Children)