“You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing!”– The famous words of a 15-year-old Brooke Shields in one of Calvin Klein’s most iconic ad campaigns. This would be the first in a series of sexually provocative images that would influence the look of fashion for decades to come. The use of […]

Peter Philips is a make up artist who has recently literally turned “white” into the new “black”! After the departure of two of the most influential heads at Chanel, Dominique Moncourtois and Heidi Morawetz, Philips has been brought in as the new Creative Director of Chanel Make Up to sensibly redefine the face of today’s […]

James Dorchester is the VP of a top Fortune 100 company, stands at about 5 feet 6 inches tall and has an “interesting” attractiveness that includes a receding hairline camouflaged by strategically spiking longer back hairs with gel and fingering them towards the front. But what he lacks in stature and follicular fertility, he more […]

Sue Tilley loves her two bedroom council flat in Camden, North London. She is best known for her friendship with iconic performer Leigh Bowery andLucien Freud’s intimate drawings of the pair, but were the 80’s all fun and games and what made her write a book about her friend’s life?
What was 80’s Britain like for […]

Whether permed and pressed, weaved or wigged…the varied images for the modern black woman are the end results of centuries of struggle. The Hip-Hop video girl with a bit of sass and sensuality has become the role model for teen girls who not so long ago felt more comfortable settin’ it off as a […]

“Am I Black or White? Am I straight or gay?
When you’re an adolescent boy growing up in middle America, it’s a bit tricky to identify with lyrics like these from the 1981 song Controversy by Prince, a petit androgynous larger-than-life man adorned in brocade boleros and stiletto winkle-pickers. Dirty Mind, one of the first albums […]