anothermag.com —  3+ hour, 30+ min ago

R.M.N. Is an Explosive Drama About Xenophobia in Rural Romania

...Cristian Mungiu knows how he wants to shoot his films.... ...Most famously with the 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the 55-year-old Romanian director has established a favoured technique... ...Rather than following a single protagonist, the patient yet explosive drama shifts between Csilla (Judith State) and Matthias (Marin Grigore).... ...In 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, two women face a gauntlet of misery in pursuit of an illegal abortion; in Beyond the Hills, it's the Romanian Orthodox...

anothermag.com —  4+ hour, 47+ min ago

The Radical History and Philosophy of Coco Chanel

...in the centre of Paris, where Gabrielle Chanel first founded her fashion business in 1910, its history now resides in Pantin, a commune on the outskirts... ...This article is taken from the Autumn/Winter 2023 issue of AnOther Magazine:  If Chanel’s present is housed – as it always was – on the rue Cambon... ...Those ideas are echoed by Oriole Cullen, the V&A’s curator of modern textiles and fashion and curator of the museum’s Gabrielle Chanel.... ...of her longest-serving and most unruly disciple, Karl Lagerfeld, through to Virginie Viard, who helms the house today....

anothermag.com —  1+ day ago

Fremont, a Triumph of Representation for Refugee Cinema

...In Babak Jalali’s new film – premiered at Sundance in January – first-time actor Anaita Wali Zada has all the laconic poise of the lead in a Jim ... ...Fremont director Babak Jalali and first-time actor Anaita Wali Zada talk about showing another side to Afghan women with their absurdist immigrant... ...(If there's any lingering doubt as to Zada’s movie-star potential, watch the way she holds the screen opposite The Bear’s burning hunk of love Jeremy... ...and presenter in Afghanistan, Zada came to the US on an evacuation flight from Kabul, as the country fell to the Taliban in the summer of 2021....

anothermag.com —  1+ day ago

At Burberry, Daniel Lee Explores and Explodes British Clichés

...– and, ideologically Daniel Lee pitched this Burberry collection as an encapsulation of the great outdoors.... ...It’s all part of the adroit and savvy brand-building Lee has undertaken since he began at Burberry almost a year ago – linking Burberry with its... ...The graphics of mid-century ladylike silk scarves, a uniform of British upper-class formality – most famously, the late Queen Elizabeth II tied a... ...Because Burberry’s repute was made as a protective label, a label to be worn outdoors, whether that be on a city street or the Arctic Circle....

anothermag.com —  2+ day ago

Lisetta Carmi's Dignified Portraits of Italy's Trans Community in the ...

...“Carmi’s work sought to represent those struggling to assert their identity, whether it be gender or class,” curator Gianni Martini tells AnOther... ...of the city’s trans community (‘I Travestiti, Genova, 1965–67’), the show reveals the socio-political impetus behind her work.... ...In 1972, after several years of tenacious searching for representation, she received the support of Sergio Donnabella, who financially backed the... ...the paradox of the trans community’s position: their fight for empowerment alongside their undeniable vulnerability in a traditional Catholic society...

anothermag.com —  2+ day ago

Aaron Esh, the Designer Crafting Couture-Level Clothes for London ...

...There’s no doubt the London-born and raised designer has been a name to know on the fashion scene since graduating from Central Saint Martins’ MA... ...Paul’s Cathedral ahead of Aaron Esh’s first runway show.... ...To a thudding soundtrack composed by the once Alexander McQueen collaborator John Gosling, Esh’s show opened with a slinky red wine dress intuitively... ...Despite being part of the British Fashion Council’s Newgen initiative, he elected not to show at the Newgen show space, which occupies a convenient...

anothermag.com —  3+ day ago

The Standout Shows From London Fashion Week S/S24

...Clothes, and their inner workings, were the simple focus of Molly Goddard’s beautiful show.... ...Held in the stately rooms of Christie’s auction house, the designer sent out a gentle, pared-back collection where clothes were turned inside-out... ...from the early, salon-style shows of Paco Rabanne and Sonia Rykiel.... ...Leaving behind her usual ornate, historical show locations – the Old Bailey, Lincoln’s Inn and Central Hall Westminster, to name a few – Simone Rocha...

anothermag.com —  3+ day ago

Is Love Life the Most Devastating Drama of the Year?

...“Whatever the distance between us, nothing can stop me loving you,” sang Akiko Yano in her 1993 pop ballad Love Life.... ...“I first heard the song when I was 20, and I listened to it over and over,” says the Japanese writer-director Kōji Fukada, via an interpreter, during... ...In a slightly cramped Japanese home, Taeko (Fumino Kimura) and her husband, Jiro (Kento Nagayama), live with six-year-old Keita, a child from Taeko... ...I say “arguably” because Fukada disagrees. “Although it's most obvious with Park, Taeko and Kiro are also betraying somebody....

anothermag.com —  4+ day ago

At Molly Goddard, the Devil Is in the Details

...Almost exactly ten years ago, Molly Goddard staged her first show at London Fashion Week.... ...a far more decorous production, though no less personal to the cult London designer.... ...A meticulous researcher, Goddard started the collection in the libraries of Central Saint Martins and the National Theatre costume hire, examining... ...“Christie's is such a beautiful place, with beautiful daylight,” she tells AnOther over the phone from her studio in Bethnal Green....

anothermag.com —  4+ day ago

A Portrait of Mica Argañaraz by Willy Vanderperre and Olivier Rizzo