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Always Cooking

The creators, coaches and players driving the Black tennis movement forward. (BAGEL)

Virgil Abloh: The Codes

A major survey exhibition spanning 28,000 square feet across The Shed’s McCourt and Darla Moore gallery will feature nearly 1,000 objects exploring Abloh’s multidisciplinary practice and enduring cultural legacy. (The Virgil Abloh Foundation)

Carter Young Wants You to Live in His Clothes

Designer Carter Altman is building a label rooted in nostalgia, utility, and the freedom to make it your own. (Sprezza)

“We’re Potty for Vintage Polo Ralph Lauren”

The preppy imprint is getting its own festival. What makes it so popular? (FT)

“Our Town Is Making Jeans Again”: Meet the Firm Reviving Jobs and Skills in Wales

In the first article in a series on high end British manufacturing, we visit the Hiut Denim factory in Cardigan. (The Guardian)

Serving Looks: Why Osteria Vibrato’s Staff Wear Vintage Designer Uniforms

For the founder of Soho Italian Osteria Vibrato, Charlie Mellor, the uniforms are an essential ingredient – and he sources each vintage designer piece by hand. (Broadsheet London)

How Tina Barney’s Mother Schooled Her in Fashion

Raised by a successful model, the acclaimed portrait photographer has long understood the power of getting dressed. (Aperture)

Famous for His Tale of Murder, He Honed His Literary Voice in Fashion

Before John Berendt wrote his classic Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, he trained his keen eye on men’s wear and manners in a long-running Esquire column. (NYT)

Jonathan Anderson’s Closet Picks

The fashion designer and creative director of Dior talks about the captivating details in Stanley Kubrick’s cinema, celebrates Pier Paolo Pasolini’s curation of ensemble casts, and selects favourites like My Beautiful Launderette, Basquiat, and Being John Malkovich. (Criterion)

Inside Margaret Howell’s House of Stillness and Light

Ahead of the publication of her new book, Margaret Howell Life and Work, the designer opens the doors to her converted Victorian coach house in south London. (The Observer)

My Little Black Book: The 180 Quarter

The places I love, the things I return to and the experiences that make 180 such a special part of London. (Alex Eagle)

Things I Love: Jesse Jenkins, aka Adip

The Los Angeles-born, London-based chef has made a huge name for himself with his cinematic cooking videos and debut cookbook. He shares 10 things he couldn’t live without, from a “beautifully balanced” knife to his new favourite running shoes. (Broadsheet London)

It’s Sliced Cheese on Bread. And It’s Rocking Copenhagen’s World

The Danish capital is obsessed with this stripped-down snack, and the city’s top bakeries won’t stop until they’ve perfected it. (NYT)

Where Do Trends Come From Now?

There’s long been a little voice in our heads telling us “It’s time to go shopping.” But in the age of hyper-optimised algorithms, who’s doing the talking? (GQ)

Making a Living Off the Art of Gentle Mocking

Alex Hartman has made a mark with his critiques of downtown denizens. Now he’s expanding his gaze beyond Nolita Dirtbag. (NYT)

The New Age of Reading

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand. (New Yorker)

All Hail Dua Lipa, the Pop Lit Queen 

Dua Lipa is famous for her catchy pop hooks – now the singer wants to get fans hooked on books, as she curates the London Literature Festival. (The Standard)

At Work With Takuhito Kawashima, Partners 

Takuhito Kawashima is an editor and creative director based between Tokyo and Paris. He joins us this week as the fourth issue of his magazine Partners is published. (magCulture)

Sourcetype’s Dictionary of the Illegible Explores What Happens When Typography Stops Making Sense

From metal band logos, watermelon emojis and comic book grawlixes to coded messages designed to evade online censorship, SourceType’s new book examines how illegible text can communicate and connect us. (It’s Nice That)

Sex Ed #2 – Fort Thunder (Sex Magazine)

Lily Allen’s Provocative Poster Is a Massive Middle Finger to the Grammys

It’s wonderfully unserious. (Creative Bloq)

The Whitewashing of Indie Sleaze

As “indie sleaze” has become inescapable online in recent years, a generation of boundary-pushing Black artists have been overlooked. Santigold, Spank Rock, and Kilo Kish remember a scene far more diverse and experimental than today’s nostalgia suggests. (Pigeons & Planes)

Inside the Musical Universe of Baker

Andrew Reynolds, Shane Heyl, and Kevin “Spanky” Long weigh in on what makes a Baker soundtrack so special. (Jenkem)

An Evergreen Lodestar of All That Is Abominable: How Reign in Blood Changed Metal

Ian Winwood looks back 40 years to his first contact with an imperial and imperious Slayer and their third album’s “frenzied scream of wall-eyed mayhem”. (The Quietus)

Let Jacques Greene Teach You How to DJ

Rule number one: No cocaine in the booth. (Hearing Things)

Monday Mixtape: James Goodson of Dazy

“I played ‘Sliver’ by Nirvana in the car taking my son to preschool. It’s on a playlist we keep adding to every time he really connects with a song.” (Fast & Loose)

HOW ARTIST ISSY WOOD CHOOSES WHAT TO PAINT

Issy Wood interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen at her studio in London, September 2026 for the Louisiana Channel.

THE BEST DAY IN THE LIFE EVER.

A day in the life of THAMES pro Ludvig Håkansson.

BORNA SAMMAK

Borna Sammak’s exhibition, The Artist’s Way, is currently on show at Von Ammon, Washington, D.C.

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David Rudnick on the “Borderline Impossible” Process of Designing a Bespoke Blackletter Typeface for Arsenal

For the past four years, the designer has been building a hand-drawn, three-weight type family that pays homage to one of the most beloved players in Arsenal’s history: David Rocastle. It’s Nice That sits down with David and Arsenal Creative Studio lead Johnnie Campbell to get behind the scenes of the mammoth project. (It’s Nice That)

Notebooks at the Ready

Everything to see, do, eat and drink during Frieze Week. (Hero)

The New Generation of London Artists to Know

The new generation of artists in London is attracting the attention of the capital’s top collectors. This is the talent you need to know. (The Standard)

Al Diaz Is Reclaiming the Legacy of Samo©, the Graffiti Project He Created With Jean-Michel Basquiat

Everyone knows Basquiat, but it’s about time you know about his collaborator and Samo© co-creator: Al Diaz, AKA Bomb-One, an overshadowed artist who helped prove that graffiti was more than meets the eye. (It’s Nice That)

Arthur Jafa Is a Major Minor Artist

His New Museum retrospective offers a chance to make sense of a cultural shift. (Artnet)

Adam Pendleton on Black Dada and “Breaking the Rules” as His New Show Opens at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum

The artist presents 11 paintings and eight large drawings – work that sits at the intersection of the avant-garde, abstraction and Blackness – in a new exhibition. (Wallpaper)

On Sex and the Black Gaze: Ajamu X and Quil Lemons in Conversation

To mark the publication of Quiladelphia, a monograph tracing ten years of his photographic practice, Quil Lemons speaks with pioneering British photographer Ajamu X to discuss Black masculinity, queer desire and the politics of representation. (AnOther)

Ambroise Degenne’s First Photo Book Is a Raw Coming-of-Age Diary in Paris

At 19, the photographer’s debut brings together friends, graffiti, travels and the fleeting moments that have shaped his life so far. (Dazed)

Interview: Borna Sammak

Talking Hot Topic and the war on terror. (John’s Music Blog)

Sex Ed #1 – Richard Prince (Sex Magazine)

The da-Zed Guide to the 90s

As the Tate Britain’s blockbuster exhibition The 90s: Art and Fashion, opens in London, Dazed co-founder Jefferson Hack offers a guide to the decade, drawing on his experience of editing the magazine during that creatively explosive era. (Dazed)

“We Danced Every Night and Hydrated With Vodka”: Why 1990s London Club Culture Was Better Than Today’s

A different club each day, countless chance encounters... and no social media. The 1990s really were better in the 1990s... (The Standard)

Bars Where You Can Still Party Like It’s the 1990s, With Mert Alas 

Photographer Mert Alas is known for creating iconic moments. First, for his work as half of legendary fashion photography duo Mert & Marcus. Second, for being the life and soul of the party. (Service95)

Where the New York Art World Eats

Here are 35 restos that art types enjoy – or should. (Artnet)

Mackeeper Wants Their Pop Music Playing in Walgreens

Blood ties and bone-deep ambition are fuelling Miles Cohen and Nick Harwood’s quest for stardom. (The FADER)

Tumblr Is Dead, but Substack Fucked Up Letting Me Embed Videos 

www.brwnopalshine.tumblr.com/3 (The Linx)

Who Chooses the Music at Fashion Week?

The worlds of fashion and music are intimately connected. Here’s an inside look at how design houses and musicians work together to soundtrack runway shows. (Pigeons & Planes)

No Other Way

Taste is intuitive for London gal about town Alex Eagle regardless of scale. Each precious space, each curated piece emanates with an ease that is uniquely hers. (Family Style)

Need a Suit? Ask Carter Young 

The London-based brand, started by two Americans, has become the most talked-about thing in menswear. (Highsnobiety)

The Enduring Legacy of Timberland (Mr Porter)

Talking Books With Tom Willis

The literary talk show might not be a genre often associated with being either fun or cool, but Tom Willis has done more than most to reenergise the literary world in London recently. (Drake’s)

The Good-Hang Economy

The comedy-podcast boom is changing our idea of what it means to be funny. (New Yorker)

You Don’t Need a ‘Personal Brand’ 

You just need to build from the core. (Good Practice)

I Subscribe Therefore I Know (Delightful) 

Why We Can’t Stop Bookmarking Content We Never Read

How did we become a generation of digital hoarders? What do we do now? (Girl Online)

INSIDE NYC’S HIDDEN STICKER BATTLE

DEVSTACKS – SOUL

Listen here.

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When Culture Becomes “Content”

Can art still illuminate reality in an age of monetised attention, generative AI, and culture produced at limitless scale? (The MIT Press Reader)

Here’s Where Media Insiders Actually Get Their News

There’s a glut of information, entertainment, and everything in between out there. We asked 10 media-savvy people – all experts in their respective fields – how they stay on top of it all. (CULTURED)

How BrooklynVegan Went From Indie Rock Blog to Ghost Site

It started as an internet outpost for die-hard music fans. Then came success. Then came corporate ownership. (NYT)

The Afterlives of Okayplayer

The story of a message board that changed hip-hop forever. (Hearing Things)

Public Enemy’s Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black Revisited 35 Years On

Public Enemy’s fourth album is often overlooked but it’s a true killer. (The Quietus)

How Johan Duncanson Made Peace With The Radio Dept.’s Pet Grief

Twenty years after The Radio Dept. left their second album behind with mixed feelings, Pet Grief is returning to vinyl as the band find a new generation of listeners. Johan Duncanson tells Jack Le Feuvre how he finally learned to hear the record differently. (The Line of Best Fit)

When Vampire Weekend Met Haruomi Hosono

The Japanese music legend talks art, AI and his latest album with super-fan Ezra Koenig. (FT)

That New 300SkullsAndCounting and Jenny Sparks Song Is Good, Actually

These XL Recordings signees are not the new Brokencyde – they’re way better. (The FADER)

RADIO RADIO with Blondey McCoy (Mixcloud)

Foreplaylist: Blondshell 

Blondshell’s Sabrina Teitelbaum writes some of the sharpest breakup songs you’ll hear these days. With her third album, Violins, newly out, she spent some time selecting what she calls the sexiest songs ever made. (Playboy)

Herb Sundays 197: JP Haynie (Actual Source)

The co-founder of publisher/design studio/brand Actual Source, shares music that inspires his own recordings plus taste, shame and Nirvana. (Herb Sundays)

Bottega Veneta Made Mark Leckey Hardcore

British artist Mark Leckey curated the soundtrack for Louise Trotter’s latest Bottega Veneta show, drawing on his iconic video work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. (AnOther)

The Graffiti Artist Top Brands Call On for That ‘New York’ Look

If the city had a font, would his lettering be it? (NYT)

Nate Lowman With Dan Cameron

On the occasion of Lowman’s exhibition at David Zwirner, the artist met with Dan Cameron to discuss his early life in California, the stories behind some of his new paintings, and what it means to make an artwork not only as a tribute, but as a way of learning. (The Brooklyn Rail)

David Shrigley: “Very Strange, Figurative, Slushy, Squishy Paintings – I Love That Aesthetic”

Lotte Brundle meets the visual artist at his studio in Brighton. (Country Life)

Scenes From Angela Hill (toBe)

The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola 

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace. (New Yorker)

Penn, Before and After

Penn & Fashion traces Irving Penn’s fashion and beauty photography over more than six decades. (NYT)

Secret History of Colour: Yves Klein Blue

The ultimate IYKYK colour. (The Rose Period)

Fitzcarraldo – Inside the Chicest Publisher on Earth

Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time. (FT) 

Annabelle Selldorf’s Guide to the Frick Collection

The architect tours the Gilded Age mansion after its $220mn revamp. (FT)

Alvaro Barrington Talks Taste

The artist on 2Pac, new boxer shorts and ‘old’ New York. (FT)

20 Years Later, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Back at Versailles

Once criticised for its modern soundtrack and pastel aesthetics, the director’s portrait of royal ennui is now being honoured in the chateau where it was filmed. (NYT)

Night Bloom

For over five decades, David Lynch called Los Angeles home. After his passing, the late auteur remains a fixture in the city. (Family Style)

In London, a New Flagship for Alex Eagle

The designer signed on to creative direct the whole of 180 the Thames, a new lifestyle hub on the north bank of the Thames. Then she moved her own business there. (NYT)

The Complicated Comfort of London’s Bus Garage Cafes

Only a few depot canteens are still open to the public – and they’re like a “hidden level in the video game of city life”. (Broadsheet London) 

Moods September 2026 (Moodmail)