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Rapid Response Collecting at the V&A

Katie Perry’s false eyelashes, a 3D-printed gun, Primark jeans and Christian Louboutin shoes are the latest additions to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection. We

Design

From Club to Catwalk

Bodymap, A/W 1984, model: Scarlett Cannon (image: Monica Curtin) It’s striking how few of the London fashion scene’s enfants terribles are still household names today,

Opinion

Mahani: Dubai’s first fashion concept store

“My brief was to provide the antithesis of the slick retail experience you find in Dubai,” says London-based designer Faye Toogood on her design for

Design

Pharrell Williams: Places and Spaces I’ve Been

(image: Francesco Allegretto/Venice Projects; Galerie Perrotin) In his new book, the R&B renaissance man invites us into his world – along with Zaha Hadid, Anna Wintour

Opinion

British Design, 1948-2012

The V&A’s tour through British design takes the 1948 “Austerity Olympics” as its starting point. As such, the exhibition tries to draw a tidy circle

Opinion

London Fashion Week

One of the easiest ways for designers to get fashion journalists to convince consumers to spend the big bucks on a Dolce & Gabbana dress

Opinion

Fashion East

In our unthinking imagining of life under socialism, the picture that comes to mind is a certain grim drabness of appearance, a certain uniformity, and

Opinion

Profile: Issey Miyake

“I have never called myself a fashion designer,” says Issey Miyake. It sounds like a contradiction from someone who has been designing clothes for 40

Design

Future Beauty

A few months ago Kieran Long published a review in Icon about the Venice Biennale (089, November 2010). “Finding history and philosophy bewildering, she looked

Opinion

Building Fashion by Boffo

The space formerly occupied by a rental office for Neil Denari’s newly completed HL23 tower in Manhattan has been transformed into a stage for exhibiting

Design

Editor's choice

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts

Meet Studio Bovti: The German design duo expressing their inner child through experimental curiosity and a playful aesthetic

ICON 216 : Autumn/Winter 2024

Faye Toogood discusses the inspiration behind her new furniture collection for Poltrona Frau

EDIT Napoli returns for its sixth edition celebrating an array of global design talent

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters

Design Council names five leading ambassadors for World Design Congress 2025




Architects

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters

LA practice Kadre Architects uses design as a street-level tool for social change

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

Architecture Icon: Alvar and Aino Aalto’s house in Helsinki bears all the hallmarks of their approach to design

From the archives: Innovative landscapes inspiring children’s imaginations

This multi-residential project by MODA cultivates community through urban farming


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Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts

Meet Studio Bovti: The German design duo expressing their inner child through experimental curiosity and a playful aesthetic

Faye Toogood discusses the inspiration behind her new furniture collection for Poltrona Frau

EDIT Napoli returns for its sixth edition celebrating an array of global design talent

Design Council names five leading ambassadors for World Design Congress 2025

Kirkby Design partners with Teklan on its latest collection of outdoor fabrics

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Conscious creativity, community and craft: Six highlights from this year’s London Design Festival


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Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts

Meet Studio Bovti: The German design duo expressing their inner child through experimental curiosity and a playful aesthetic

ICON 216 : Autumn/Winter 2024

Faye Toogood discusses the inspiration behind her new furniture collection for Poltrona Frau

EDIT Napoli returns for its sixth edition celebrating an array of global design talent

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters

Design Council names five leading ambassadors for World Design Congress 2025