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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Why every man needs a smart black hoodie

    The sports staple is now a statement look

    From left: Kim Ji-Hoon, Ben Affleck, Racer Worldwide AW24, will.i.am at the 2024 Grammy Awards, Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino AW24, Jamie Bell at JW Anderson’s SS25 show, and Junya Watanabe AW24
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Interiors
    Temporary needn’t mean tasteless in rented accommodation

    The rental market represents a substantial target market for designers, and creative minds are rising to the challenge

    Two yellow sofas face each other in the living room of an elegant Haussmann-era apartment in Paris
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Why fashion still bows to Madame Grès

    A new book pays homage to the grande dame of drape

    House of Grès silk jersey SS77 evening dress (left), and a silk jersey evening dress, c1981-86, in Madame Grès: Couture at Work installation at Musée Bourdelle
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    InterviewFashion
    Simone Rocha: ‘It’s not just about making pretty dresses’

    The designer talks about perverse femininity, working with Gaultier and the influence of her Irish heritage

    A woman in a black jacket with her hands folded in front of a blue background
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    House & Home
    Robot sex, murder and inspiring interiors: the dystopian allure of TV’s Sunny

    The sci-fi show is deliciously dark, but its Japanese architecture and design are rays of inspiration

  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Fashion
    Time to ditch the work backpack

    Unless you’re a pre-teen or hiking, there are more stylish options for a work bag

    Man wearing a dark skirt and dark long-sleeve shirt under a short-sleeve shirt with an abstract, celestial design. The outfit is accessorised with a crossbody bag and a bucket hat
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Interiors
    Still cool in 2084? Design experts predict the interiors icons of the future

    From chicken bricks to modular sofas — as a new exhibition exalts the designs of the past, these are forecast to be loved in 60 years’ time

  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    HTSI
    The wonderful wagons of Rollo Dunford Wood

    Meet the carpenter preserving a rich history of carnivals and characters

    Rollo Dunford Wood, his wife Freyja Lee and their two children camp beside a pair of wagons in north Wales
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    HTSI
    Humberto Campana’s circle of life

    The Brazilian furniture designer is about to unveil his first sculpture park. It’s an ode to bohemianism and a tribute to his brother

    Humberto Campana at the Brick Pavilion at Parque Campana in Brazil
  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
    HTSI
    Why menswear went mad for the builder’s apron

    If looks could drill…

    Fendi leather apron, £6,100
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    InterviewFashion
    Designer Giles Deacon: ‘I never wanted a billion-dollar business’

    A shift to couture a decade ago has proved a masterstroke, attracting a stellar list of clients and off-the-wall collaborations

    Giles Deacon in light brown suit sits on a director’s chair in a studio, with three outfits on mannequins behind him
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    InterviewFashion
    Giancarlo Giammetti: ‘We couldn’t launch Valentino today’

    One half of Italian fashion’s celebrated partnership on shaping Valentino Garavani’s vision, partying with Elizabeth Taylor — and why luxury is now in a ‘different universe’

    Giancarlo Giammetti stands by a mantel piece, alongside a fragment of a sculpture of a horse’s head
  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    Simon Costin: ‘I can look out of the window and see another country’

    His theatrical home on the sea feeds the creativity of the British set designer as he conjures his manifold projects

    Simon Costin with his collection of Punch and Judy dolls
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    HTSIHTSI autumn property special
    The brilliance of Brazilian modernism

    Join the Bo Bardi party

    Inside Lina Bo Bardi’s Casa de Vidro in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Friday, 13 October, 2023
    HTSIHTSI autumn design special 2023
    Some people watch 9½ Weeks for the sex. I watch it for the furniture

    Slick, urbane and über-masculine, ’80s erotic noirs established a interior mood that still seduces

    Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks, 1986
  • Monday, 9 October, 2023
    HTSIHTSI autumn design special 2023
    Into the Brudnizki-verse: the Swedish super-designer unveils his first store

    Martin Brudnizki’s debut retail space has landed in London

    From left: Easton chair, £3,800, counter stool, £4,200, and side chair, £3,800, all in Fern and Teal. Headbourne wall lights, £3,000 each. Ovington table lamp (on right), £4,000, all in Martin Brudnizki’s new store in Pimlico
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    HTSI
    Austin Osman Spare – occultist, avant-gardist and ‘Britain’s first pop artist’

    The London painter’s works have become spookily popular of late

    Austin Osman Spare at work in his Brixton studio in November 1947
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    HTSI
    How fashion got stuck in the Waugh zone

    Designers can’t stop revisiting Brideshead Revisited. Why?

    Evelyn Waugh, 1930, by Henry Lamb
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    HTSI
    Get the Claridge’s look, at home

    Bryan O’Sullivan, the designer behind a swath of five-star addresses, debuts his new furniture line

    From left: Spring armchair, £21,600, Baja Sur lamp, £9,480, Sweetie side table, £7,200, Pond table, £33,600, Flint sofa, £22,800, and Tree lamp, £7,200. In the background is the Croissant sofa, £26,400
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    Style
    ‘Perfumers are magicians’ — the secret duo behind luxury candles

    United Perfumes’ Chris Yu and Laurent Delafon have created home fragrances for Alexander McQueen, Tom Dixon and Paul Smith

  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    HTSI
    Men, where to find the perfect T-shirt

    Because life’s too short to wear bad tees

    Robert Redford in New York c1970
  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    HTSI
    Twill of the people: the workwear staple that never gets old

    Designers share their fascination with the labourer’s favourite fabric

    Toogood military twill Historian jacket, £770, and Clockmaker trousers, £490
  • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
    HTSIHTSI spring menswear special
    ‘I absolutely deserve waffles…’ Walter Van Beirendonck talks taste

    The Belgian fashion designer loves Reebok Pumps, rings – and plastic dolls

    The designer at home in Zandhoven, Belgium
  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    HTSIHTSI spring menswear special
    Have we reached peak Keith Haring?

    The artist’s squiggles still dominate the fashion industry. And that’s exactly what he wanted

    Haring at the opening of Pop Shop, New York, in 1986
  • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
    Style
    British folk costumes finally get the focus they deserve

    An exhibition at Compton Verney manor in Warwickshire gives an insight into regional and seasonal customs that have long fascinated designers

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