Cole Haan SS16 at Calatrava’s Oculus

Dancers and ballerinas strike a pose in NYC's new architectural wonder

A decade in the making (and costing roughly $4 billion dollars to construct), architect Santiago Calatrava‘s stunning, bone-like Oculus WTC Transit Hub opened to the public partially last week. It will take time for most to make their way down to scope out the spectacle, but in the interim, Cole Haan was the first brand to utilize the space. For Cole Haan’s spring 2016 campaign, …

Studio Visit: Artist Anna Lomax

Neon signs, plants and all kinds of beguiling tchotchkes fill her east London space

Right by the verdant Regent’s Canal in east London lies a courtyard surrounded by old warehouses that are now home to some of the most exciting up-and-coming designers in the British capital. One of these is Anna Lomax, an artist and set designer who’s worked with everyone from Kenzo to the Tate, and whose genre-spanning pieces include humorous installations, neon signs and tongue-in-cheek holograms. Lomax’s …

Askov Finlayson + Hygge & West Wallpaper

Two cozy, Northern winter-inspired designs fit for year-round enjoyment in this new collab

Since 2008, e-commerce wallpaper (and now fabric) company Hygge & West has offered modern, whimsical designs—all wallpaper screen-printed by hand in the USA—through strong collaborations with the likes of Florida’s Rifle Paper Co, Brooklyn-based illustrator Julia Rothman, and now (somewhat unusually) men’s boutique Askov Finlayson. “Aimee Lagos [of Hygge & West] reached out to us unexpectedly, but we were already familiar with the great work …