The largest ever global anti animal testing campaign was launched at the handmade-skincare brand LUSH cosmetics’ Regent Street store window, in London. Collaborating with Humane Society International, they hired performance artist Jacqueline Traides to execute a 10 hour live show of torturous proceedings including force-feedings, liquid injections that are procedures regularly employed by the beauty [...]

The neo-soul sensation D’Angelo has been pretty quiet over the last few years. However, he seemed to suddenly re-appear in January and has just completed a number of European tour dates in major cities like London, Paris, Stockholm and Oslo. It seems the music world is starting to get excited about Mr Michael Eugene Archer’s [...]

If there’s one show to travel to London fashion week for, it’s Burberry. Ever since Christopher Bailey took the fashion house from humdrum to super power, the A-list have been there to see what he can send down the runway. This season—say hello to the bow. With a collection that focused far more on the [...]

There is no escaping it, every day the world is getting smaller and the people who populate it, more accessible. Friends who would once have been permanently lost in the ether of distance and time are now instantly contactable from almost any corner of the globe. The pace of change in how we interact with [...]

Who: Roberto Piqueras Where: East London What he does: Design my own stylelife What’s on his mind today: Today I received my Hello Kitty phone but doesn´t work… So, trying to fix it. What he’s you currently working on: Right now, Im going to film a video for summer 2012 collection by Cocoladas, preparing my [...]

Depending on how you look at it, the promises that we make to ourselves at the start of each year can be inspiring or daunting. While losing weight, keeping a journal, and reading more often are all noble goals, taking them all on at once — and by ourselves — probably isn’t the best recipe [...]

Who: Gary Gissler and Jonas Bradford of Bowery Trucks Where: Great Jones St in Lower Manhattan What they do: A partnership that re-thinks and designs everything from Pick-Up Trucks to T-shirts and Home Interiors to Boutique Hotels (Jonas left and Gary right). Photo by Nicole Casanova What’s on their mind today: Gary: Getting a dog. [...]

This past Tuesday marked the second annual Faith Shorts Global Film Competition run by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. The budding event is unique in its call for youth from around the world to participate in the production of short films. In three minutes or less, over 120 teens between ages 14 and 18 expressed [...]

To compliment The WILD’s Music To Start The Week With, we’re adding our new end of the week feature, Heavy Rotation. We’ll share what we’ve been listening to over the last week or so, and loosely tie the artists together. This week, we’ll have a go at some UK electronic sounds. If you’d like to [...]

Who: Fred Butler Where: Dalston, London What she does: Accessories Designer and blogger Photo by Annie Collinge What she thinks there is too much of, and too little of: There is too much looking at screens and not enough looking at what is actually in front of you. People are missing precious experience in the [...]

Brazilian native Amon Tobin has just completed a sold out tour of North America, stunning audiences with his ISAM Live Visual Experience 2011. Produced by V Squared Labs & Leviathan, a team of engineers and artists set out to build an almost unbelievable cubic structure combining 3D animation and design tailored to Tobin’s new album. [...]

Who: Dan Blake What: Stylist, Fashion editor for 7TH MAN MAGAZINE Where: London What’s on his mind today: My Halloween costume. What to go as? I have access to the most amazing real hair wigs and I have my eye on this blond bob hair which I was going to wear with a black roll neck [...]

James Blake is one artist who’s music is hardly conventional – at all. He mixes the oddest sounds and utilizes his voice in such a distinct way that he produces music that is both strange and soothing. Either way, I am not complaining. If anything, I am praising his innovative aesthetic. Blake is yet another [...]

An old school UK graffiti artist has regained prominence in recent years due in part to a tit for tat tagging feud with the most famous street artist in the world. Robbo began as a London-based graffer with a style similar to that of classic New York City, tagging trains with his signature calligraphy throughout [...]

Who: Ayami Nishimura What she does: I’m a makeup artist Where she is now: At Café Violet in East London near where I live. Photo by: Sean & Seng What’s on her mind today: If  I shall visit my friends in Stockholm next weekend or not… What she thinks there is too much of, and [...]

On June 18 2011, Amy Winehouse was scheduled to start a 12-leg European tour in Belgrade. A large crowd was eagerly waiting for the British singer to return back to the limelight she graced after the release of her excellent sophomore album, 2007′s “Back to Black”. Instead, it was anything but. Fans were in front [...]

WHO: Sayori Wada. Artist, illustrator/designer. WHERE: Tokyo Whats on her mind today: Same sex marriage is finally legal in my second home, NY! What she is currently working on: At work, one of the things I’ve been working on is a seasonal ad design/illustration for the department store in Japan, Tokyu Hands. Privately, I’ve been [...]

Hot off the presses of Berlin Fashion Week, DERZEIT delivers the latest news and trends straight from the catwalk. The first independent fashion daily of Berlin has been informing the city’s fashionistas and pop culture enthusiasts of show schedules, runway reviews, studio visits, interviews and editorials. Going strong in its second year of print, the [...]

Who: Vanna Youngstein, Designer…etc Where: sitting on my rooftop in Manhattan Photo by: Britt Kubat What’s on her mind today: Dreaming of walking in Hampstead Heath with my little nephew; and Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe too What her earliest memory is: My grandmother pushing me in an old fashioned pram over cobblestone streets in [...]

COLLECTIVESHOW.org will present this Saturday & Sunday a special exhibition of past and future artist group showcases. Presenting COLLECTIVE SHOW Cruise, a showcase of artist groups from cultural capitals around the globe. The exhibition, linked with no single city in particular, is a shared space that acts as a preview of future group shows from [...]

Stylelikeu, created by mother-daughter team Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum, goes way beyond the now ubiquitous and static poses of street-fashion bloggers and brings us into the homes—and more importantly the closets—of the most stylish people on the streets of New York, Los Angeles, London, and more. Not interested in celebrities and the stylists who [...]

After Clark’s record breaking retrospective Kiss the Past Hello at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2010, which has received worldwide controversy and critical acclaim, The Simon Lee Gallery is pleased to present new collages as well as vintage works for the first time in the UK. Showing in London at [...]

Nick Knight has done this amazingly beautiful and touching film as a tribute to his friend and long time collaborator Lee Alexander McQueen, that sadly passed away earlier this year. This makes me recall the mid-90′s, when there was no other place with greater creativity than London. The city was booming with young innovative artists [...]

Estudio Normal is an Argentinean based architecture and design studio fronted by Martin Huberman. Popular by their “Tender” installations in Buenos Aires, Normal was asked by H&M Home to design a series of interventions for the launch party of the new Home Collection in their flagship Store in London. “Tender” is the name given to [...]