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Changing Cerruti

Peter Yeoh
Archive, Fashion, Feature, News
No one can be the new (or next) Nino Cerruti. Nor should anyone try to be. The dashing founder of Cerruti is irreplaceable, inimitable. He is the consummate sartorialist, embodying la grande bellezza – the gr...

The artful dresser

Peter Yeoh
Avant Art, Culture, Feature
At an art opening, a man gets to shed his work uniform and wear groovy clothes, and, for a few hours, behaves like an iconoclast in the splendour of a museum or gallery. There he flaunts his bold sartorial st...

An unrestrained eye

Peter Yeoh
Archive, Avant Art, Culture, Feature
The Glass Archive presents a special three-part series – The unflinching lens Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama, 
three eminent Japanese post-war photographers, have captured radical views of a c...

Design houses

Peter Yeoh
Feature, Glass Design
SANAA Lausanne, Switzerland Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa are carrying out a quiet revolution. Through their firm SANAA the Japanese architects have been constructing buildings that appear diaphano...

Capturing light

Peter Yeoh
Archive, Avant Art, Feature
  Hiroshi Sugimoto has made his name as a chronicler of time immemorial. His photography emerges from and lives in the interstices of personal and collective memory, as part of what he calls “the hist...

Artistic transgressor

Peter Yeoh
Avant Art, Feature
The polymorphous art of Sterling Ruby embraces paradox, confounds expectations, and defies easy categorisation. Yet at the same time his creative output partakes of and helps establish new paradigms for definin...

Fashion sparkles at Miu Miu screening

Peter Yeoh
News
Miu Miu’s party and screening of Spark and Light,  the latest short film in the label’s Women’s Tales series, at the Diamond Horseshoe was the highlight of this year’s New York Fashion Week. http://www.youtu...

Activist soul

Peter Yeoh
Culture
Pop acts are usually ephemeral, exploding brightly for a few years before dissipating into the cultural ether. Only few recording artists can sustain a long trajectory of success – through talent, tenacity, or ...

Facing a dark past with playful art

Peter Yeoh
Avant Art
At a glance, the twisted body of a woman chained to a bed inside a prison cell constructed inside The Container gallery in Tokyo, an art space converted from a container that sits inside a hair salon – spaces c...