Chinese New Year – the year of the Pig
Chinese New Year, sometimes called Spring Festival, is steeped in over 4000 years of history. The event begins on the first day of the Lunar Calendar, lasting until the 15th day of the first month, meaning this year it will kick off on February 5th, with festivities continuing up until the 19th.
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Festival de Cannes
Once a year, the film world’s elite descends on the French Riviera for a week of movie mayhem, all-round hedonism and dressing up to the nines. Cannes is the festival to see and be seen at, so naturally those in attendance are expected to pull out all the stops when it comes to outfit choices.
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The man who makes the finest of macaroni
Stas Zhitsky is a product and graphic designer, author, blogger, columnist and modern artist from Russia. A prolific and endlessly charismatic character who’s anything but a wallflower, Stas founded one of his country’s leading design companies, OPEN!Design, alongside fellow artist Sergey Kuzhavsky in 1996.
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Style’n’Snitch brings emerging designers to London
Last week a well-groomed cross section of society descended on a luxurious private members club off Bond Street for a very special evening of fashion and fundraising for a good cause. Met with drinks and canapés on arrival, guests had the opportunity to view rare and cut-price designs privately, while raffle prizes included dinners at top Mayfair restaurants. Proceeds from the raffle went entirely towards the charity Nadezhda , which supports Russian children with disabilities.
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Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist to hit screens in March
As 2017 bids a fond adieu and 2018 hastily squeals into sight, it’s important to keep ourselves focused on good things to come. January and February could easily be described as the dreariest months of the year, so we were all excited at to find out that a spanking new Vivienne Westwood documentary would be arriving on our screens come March.
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Sergei Eisenstein’s October
The 26th of October marks the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, known to some as the October Revolution or Red October. One of the most important political events of the 20th Century, its effects are still being felt today. To commemorate the centenary, the Barbican is hosting a special, one-off screening of the iconic cinematic masterpiece, Sergei Eisenstein’s October – an epic recreation of these events that led up to the storming of the great Winter Palace in 1917.
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Spiritualism from within
Engrossed in the sci-fi film, Doctor Strange, from the comfort of my hotel bed after a 4-day trek in the Andes, I found myself philosophising about what we really know.
I wondered about the origins of mankind’s knowledge that has been imprinted onto our DNA throughout centuries, and the extent of our physical and mental capabilities.
I thought about how each day we get on with our lives and prefer to settle into a kind of predictable “Groundhog day” routine. However, given the right environment – and I have travelled to the holy ground of the Incas! – and with a bit of inspiration, your mind can open up.
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