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London’s Coolest Neighbourhood Is… Clerkenwell?

How a quiet quarter full of offices became the favoured hangout for in-the-know Londoners – and Charli XCX. (The Londoner)

6 of London’s Best Underground Photo Bookshops

We spoke to the minds behind six of the city’s most elusive art, photography and culture bookstores – here’s everything you need to know before visiting… (Dazed)

Counter Culture Offers Photographic Ode to New York City’s Enduring Diners

A new photo book preserves the longtime city staples. (Gothamist)

Hard Parties, Cheap Rents and Horrible Flats: How 90s Art and Fashion Redefined British Culture

An evocative new Tate Britain show captures an era when the UK’s newly flush creative industries teamed up with a generation of skint dreamers to bring the decade into vivid colour. (The Guardian)

Grace Coddington Looks Back at Her Life in Parties

From photo shoots with Helmut Newton to birthday antics with Anna Wintour, the legendary fashion editor shares the stories behind her remarkable career. (W Magazine)

A Harlem Renaissance Party to End All Parties

After the maverick director William Greaves convened the movement’s remaining members, it took 50 years and his family to bring the fireworks to the screen. (NYT)

Gordon Parks as His Subjects Knew Him

Isabella Rossellini, Lonnie Ali, Anderson Cooper and other relatives of those who figured in the celebrated photographer’s portraiture bolster a new exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery. (NYT)

Rita Ackermann Doesn’t Have to Explain Her Work to You

The artist, an enfant terrible of the 1990s, has embraced a quieter, more enigmatic style. Just don’t ask her what it all means. (NYT)

FFNY in Conversation: Clayton Patterson

The Lower East Side, Tompkins Square Park, hardcore, outsiders, and a life spent documenting the people New York might have forgotten. (Friends From New York)

The Intricate Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette

During the making of Marie Antoinette, photographer Andrew Durham wandered the streets of Versailles with a 35mm camera. Twenty years on, more than 350 of his images have been gathered in a new book. (AnOther) 

When Blink-182 Was My Neighbour

25 years ago, the band brought a wrecking ball to the house next to mine for a music video. Then history happened. (Vulture)

Clairo Talks New Music, Touring, and the First Time She Met Charli XCX

Before Charli brought Clairo onstage at her July show in Brooklyn, the two caught up about making music, working with friends, and the importance of devoting yourself to your art. (WYouth)

Your Favourite Music Producer’s Favourite Magazine

Tape Op keeps the DIY dream of the ’90s alive. (Totei)

Making a Magazine Is a Hilarious Exercise

The eyes, minds, hands (and breasts) behind our Fall 2026 issue. (Playboy)

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF IRAK

Captured by photographer and IRAK crew member Alain Levitt.

IRAK X CARHARTT

Crew jackets by Carhartt WIP to mark the 30th anniversary of IRAK. Photography by Nolan Zangas.

JJJJOUND FW26

More info here.

STÜSSY IN OSAKA

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The Quaalude Comeback: A Once ‘Extinct’ Drug From the 70s Makes a Resurgence

Underground chemists are now producing the notorious party drug after a Scorsese film sparked renewed interest. (The Guardian)

Kleptos at Claridge’s: What’s OK to Steal From the World’s Best Hotels? 

Some guests walk away with more than just memories – a lot more. But what’s permissible to pinch and what’s a five-star felony? We investigate. (Town & Country)

Down With the Breakfast Meeting

Will Hosie has been a breakfast refusenik since he first learnt the joy of lying in. As Londoners flock to breakfast meetings, can he bring himself to join in the fun? (Country Life)

I’m Over the Erewhonification of Fancy Grocery Stores

The rise of “luxury” grocery stores feels deeply sinister. (Eater)

Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

Civilisations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line – Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it. (The Grim Historian)

A Print Magazine for Teens? In This Economy?

Sara Moonves managed to save and expand W, a fashion and culture magazine. Her next bet is on WYouth. (NYT)

Kirsty Godso, Hailey Bieber’s Trainer, Talks Pain, Positivity and Perfect Abs

Meet the fitness guru who gets the A-list into shape. (FT)

François Halard Talks Taste

The French photographer loves tantric art, ’90s garage and his Glengarry cashmere beanie. (FT)

Chris Black Can’t Slow Down

The How Long Gone co-host and founder of Hanover opens up about everything. (SSENSE)

Jerry Hsu’s Empty Space

The skateboarder and photographer opens up about his new photobook How About Never, his creative process, and living alone for the first time in years. (SSENSE)

Flow State Style

From skate parks to tennis courts, Palmes Society’s Nikolaj Hansson will forever be in love with lived-in style. (BAGEL)

How Terminal Skateshop Became an Uptown Skate Destination From a Sixth-Floor Walk-Up

For over 20 years, Eugene Kang’s skateshop has served the community – from the sixth-floor of his walk-up apartment building. (V Magazine)

Carpet Company Is Playing the Long Game

Despite a new flagship store and a slew of high-profile collabs, the Baltimore skate brand’s founders are committed to keeping things DIY. (GQ)

Can a 125-Year-Old Prep Institution Become a $100 Million Menswear Giant?

Led by creative director Jack Carlson, J. Press has an ambitious plan to bring its old-school Ivy style to the masses. “$100 million is not a massive company,” Carlson tells GQ. “That’s where we probably should be.” (GQ)

Emma Cline on Switzy – “How Would You Survive Those Days, Knowing What’s Coming?”

The American novelist’s Booker-longlisted new novel follows a man with Alzheimer’s on his final journey to an assisted-dying clinic in Zurich. (FT)

Matthew Schnipper on Grief, Art, and Learning (Not) to Be Like Henry Rollins

“It’s better to be connected than isolated.” (Futurism Restated)

Lucien Smith, Whose Meteoric Rise Presaged a Diverse Second Act, Dies at 37

Originally known for his contributions to the abstract painting boom of the 2010s, Smith shifted to channel his talents into art-adjacent efforts such as a nonprofit online registry for unsigned artists (Serving the People) and a revival of Food, the renowned restaurant-cum-art project that fed SoHo’s artists in the 1970s. (Artforum)

Jay Maisel, Photographer of Miles Davis and Much More, Dies at 95

His moody portrait became the album cover for Kind of Blue. Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million. (NYT)

The Day After 9/11 Through the Lens of Skate Photographer Mike O’Meally 

“The streets were so empty. People were kinda waving us on, it was a weird optimistic outlook.” (Jenkem)

Revisiting Dipset’s Complicated and Provocative Relationship With 9/11

The 9/11 terrorist attacks were a unifying moment for the US. Hip-hop had a more complicated relationship: part patriotic, part provocative. No act better exemplified this than Dipset. (okayplayer)

RIP LUCIEN SMITH

HAILEY BIEBER FOR ICE MAGAZINE

Hailey Bieber photographed by Renell Medrano for the Brazil Issue of ICE magazine. Download the magazine for free here.

HOW CLARKS BECAME A NEW YORK STAPLE

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Chris Black: My Skill Set Is Bringing Together the Best People

Part one of my conversation with the How Long Gone co-host. Part two here. (Human Pursuits)

The Five New Status Waters

There’s something, one might say, in the water. And it’s probably slightly more expensive water. Here are the five to drink. (Gentleman’s Journal)

Booze, Food & Sex: The US Open Edition

Honey Deuces, chicken nuggets, caviar, ATP hotties and Brat-Tamers rule in New York City. (BAGEL)

How Many Jerseys Is Too Many?

In the Premier League, a limit may not exist. (Reuters)

Dads and Dudes: The Two Style Clans That Dominate Menswear

The ‘dad’ look favours straight lines and muted colours, while ‘dudes’ prefer baggier clothes with adornments. (The Guardian)

The Swedes Who Dared to Stand Out

The Swedish fashion brand Acne Studios broke out three decades ago with one pair of jeans, kicking off a wave of Scandi fashion that hasn’t stopped. (NYT)

Inside Dozer: A Conversation With Justinian Mason

On Fake Ivy, the new wave of prep, community, and where Dozer goes next. (Easy on the Ivy)

Dressing up for Life With Sandy Liang

On the occasion of her new Rizzoli monograph, Dressing Up: Sandy Liang, the designer reflects on building her brand and the future of the “Sandy Girl”. (SSENSE)

The House of Shelter

Founded in London in 2023 by Andrew Westermann and Morell Maison, Shelter sits somewhere between a creative studio, consultancy and cultural intermediary, though neither founder is particularly interested in defining it too neatly. (to Be)

James Frey by Asher Penn

“If you look for stories in your life, you will find them.” (Sex Magazine)

Edward Enninful on The 90s: “If There Were Phones We’d All Be Cancelled!”

Ahead of Tate Britain’s expansive new exhibition The 90s: Art and Fashion, Enninful talks us through curating the show, past rivalries with Dazed, and the one item that slipped through his fingers. (Dazed)

Veteran Photographer William Meyers Sheds a Crucial Light on the Unseen Municipalities of New York City

William Meyers may be in his 80s, but he only picked up professional photography when he was 60. Across the past 25 years, he’s been photographing New York City – not its officials or politicians, but the rooms in which democracy happens. (It’s Nice That)

Pro Skater-Turned-Photographer Jerry Hsu Takes Us Inside His Breakup in a New Photobook

The pro skater moved to Los Angeles for love. A new monograph from MACK chronicles the decline of his relationship and the beginning of his love affair with the incorrigible city. (CULTURED)

Prolific UK Graffiti Artist Helch Dies

Artist rose to prominence in 2018 by painting his eponymous tag in public spots across southern England. (The Guardian)

How Graffiti Artist Helch Left His Mark All Over Shoreditch and Beyond

Wandering the streets of Shoreditch, it’s impossible not to spot ‘HELCH’ – or a simple ‘H’ – emblazoned on walls. (The Standard)

The 8 Ball: An Oral History of Bungalow 8, the Nightclub That Changed New York

In the early aughts, everyone who was anyone (and those who wanted to be) packed into Amy Sacco’s Chelsea nightclub – think George Clooney, Sting, and Demi Moore. Derek C. Blasberg talks to the designers, artists, moguls, and aspiring somebodies who packed in the banquettes to light up, get close, and shut it down. (Vanity Fair)

Herb Sundays in Focus: Electro 1997-2005 (Electroclash, New Electro, Disco Nouveau) Part 2

Stories and favourites from the front lines + I was an Electro Malcontent + unseen photos by Will Calcutt. (Herb Sundays)

The 25 Best Future Projects

Freebandz Gang unite! (The Linx)

THE PALACE CREATIVE UNIVERSE FOR WALLPAPER

Palace Skateboards guest-edits the October 2026 issue of Wallpaper magazine, with the founders turning the lens from themselves to profile the wide-reaching Palace community. Check it out here.

THE DRUMS X LEDBYHER – YES&NO

IN THE DETAILS – VICTOR MUÑOZ

Reigning Champ recently caught up with Vicente Muñoz of Pro Shop at his studio in New York City. Read the full story and watch the film here.

THAMES SHIELD SCARF

The Assembly neck scarf by THAMES MMXX. Available here.

THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE

“Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series How To with John Wilson, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world’s most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter.”

TURNSTILE – NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS

Listen here.

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Vulture Culture

Everyone wants to be culturally relevant, but what even is culture anyway? (Protein)

Welcome to the Era of Microsnobberies

Now you’re judged on your children’s lunch boxes and whether your olive oil has a story. (WaPo)

How a Highbrow Novel Became Celebrity Gossip 

Life of M, Rachel Cusk’s new book, has a protagonist with an uncanny resemblance to Natalie Portman. But in an interview, Cusk says she never expected it would cause such a frenzy. (NYT)

The Secret History of the Lost First Edition of Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh’s beloved novel was published first in Town & Country, but it might look a bit different from the copy on your bookshelf. To honour our anniversary, we’re bringing the original out of the archives. (Town & Country)

How Does The Shards Compare to Real Life? A 1980s L.A. Prep Weighs In

The new series depicts a Reagan-era Los Angeles of absent parents, rampant drug use, and near-death experiences. It’s not entirely fictional. (Town & Country)

David Hockney’s Portrait of Betty Freeman Became Iconic. Their Friendship Was Even Better

The author of a new book about “The Beverly Hills Housewife” recalls that when Hockney painted Freeman, he made much more than just a legendary image. (Town & Country)

When Google Isn’t Enough: Three Libraries That Are Providing Fashion Creatives With Rich, Printed Archives

Preserving the fashion industry’s history and heritage is a colourful, creative business. We head to Spain, London and New York to visit three archives that are inspiring the next generation. (Monocle)

From Barbie Logos to Medieval Manuscripts: Step Inside Teddy Blanks’ Film Title Design Process 

Teddy Blanks, the Chips co-founder behind the title sequences for Barbie, Weapons and Robert Eggers’ upcoming Werwulf, explains how eBay dolls, hidden AA symbolism and a 14th Century manuscript all found their way into his lettering. (It’s Nice That)

That’s Never Going to Happen, Like Snow in July

Taryn Segal on her zine of photographs of oddities and the absurd. (Monster Children)

Melissa Auf Der Maur’s Chronicle of Nineties Rock

The photographer, who played bass for Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, captured a moment in which one generation’s subculture became the next generation’s mainstream. (New Yorker)

Lily Allen, One Year On

A candid conversation with Lily Allen, caught backstage in the middle of the UK leg of her epic, 62-date West End Girl tour. (Perfect)

Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of Black British Music With Escaping Babylon Author, Jesse Bernard

Jesse Bernard sits down with Rob Kazandjian to talk about some of the lesser known voices he spotlighted in his book to trace their impact on British culture. (DJ Mag)

Herb Sundays 190: Electro 1997–2005 (Electroclash, New Disco, Disco Nouveau) Part 1

Electroclash never truly existed, but the feeling was immense. Memoirs of the new Electro era part one. (Herb Sundays)

Inside Paul Smith’s Nottingham Archive, a Treasure Trove of British Fashion

Wallpaper takes a trip to Nottingham to discover Paul Smith’s career-spanning archive, which continues to inform the label’s collections today. (Wallpaper)

What the Ladies Are Wearing This Summer

We asked our friends what they're wearing right now, and they delivered. (Sprezza)

Has Cricket Bowled Over the Fashion Set?

The sport is becoming a chic summer fixture – here’s how to get the look, even if you don’t understand the rules. (The Standard)

Why Contemporary Painters Are Obsessed With Tennis (Artsy)

Tennis Gamesmanship and Dark Arts: MTOs, Bathroom Breaks and the Serve Clock (The Athletic) 

How the U.S. Open Changed the History of Tennis

The legacy of the U.S. Open goes way beyond Flushing Meadows. (Town & Country)

BAGEL X OPEN COURT: NEW YORK IN PLAY

A snapshot of the contemporary New York music scene to celebrate the start of the US Open, courtesy of BAGEL magazine and Open Court. Listen here.

KITS AT CARNI 2025

A look-back at last year’s Notting Hill Carnival edition of Kits at…, photographer Aaron Hettey’s documentary series spotlighting football kits as the uniform of celebration. 

Check out more of Aaron’s work here.