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Martine Rose, fashion designer, on her smiley face T shirt GB Tell me why you chose your T shirt. MR I guess it’s a beautiful thing for me on loads of levels. […]
A snapshot of contemporary ideals of beauty
Martine Rose, fashion designer, on her smiley face T shirt GB Tell me why you chose your T shirt. MR I guess it’s a beautiful thing for me on loads of levels. […]
Markus Lupfer, fashion designer, on his picture of elephants in the Serengeti. GB Tell me why you chose this. ML I’ve chosen this because I went to the Serengeti last […]
Saul Nash, fashion designer and choreographer, on a sculpture by Mark Jenkins GB Tell me why you chose this. SN I like the way the two bodies balance one another. […]
Michele Rafferty, stylist and creative director, on an outsider art painting GB Tell me why you chose this. MR Its the magic of finding a little something, I bought it […]
Mark Eley, designer, on a perfectly manicured lawn bowling green GB Tell me why you chose this. ME Bowls has been a pastime of mine for the last six years […]
Daisy de Villeneuve, artist and writer, on a painting she bought in Mexico GB Tell me why you chose this. DdeV I chose it because I like naïve artwork and […]
Amélie Pichard, designer, on her Playboy magazine with a personal dedication from Pamela Anderson GB Tell me why you chose this as an object of beauty. AP I have a […]
Sir Paul Smith, designer, on an aardvark GB Tell me why you chose an aardvark as an object of beauty. PS There wasn’t a great deal of thought that went […]
Dilara Findikoglu, fashion designer, on her vagina GB Tell me why you chose this. DF I did a collection based on a religion that I’d created. There were six looks […]
Leo Carlton, fashion artifact and millinery designer, on a brooch he made from a dead baby bird GB Tell me why you chose this. LC I chose the bird because […]
Clare Corrigan, designer, on her Secessionist flower stand GB Tell me why you chose this. CC It’s a flower stand that I have on my top floor landing. I found […]
Peter Copping, Creative Director at Oscar de la Renta, on Whistlejacket by George Stubbs, 1762 GB Tell me why you chose this painting. PC I grew up with horses and […]
Stavros Karelis, Founder of Machine-A, on a Nicomede Talavera Pillow Bag GB Tell me why you chose this. SK I love this as an object because a pillow for me […]
Jamie Morgan, photographer, on a contact sheet. GB Tell me why you chose this. JM As much as I love beauty, I don’t collect beautiful objects, so I couldn’t find […]
Will Sweeney, artist and illustrator, on his old school bag. GB Tell me about your school bag and why it’s beautiful to you. WS It’s the bag I had when […]
Katie Puckrik, writer and broadcaster, on a blanket her mother made. GB Tell me why you chose this. KP I thought about the idea of an object of beauty. It […]