Not planned your summer hols yet? After a heinous experience at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport recently we’re leaning into a feeling that road trips might be all the rage. For travel inspiration may we direct you to woman of the hour, Sydney Sweeney, in Jimmy Choo’s cool-as-a-cucumber new Palm Springs campaign. Sandra Choi, creative director of Jimmy Choo, said of the star: ‘Talented, confident and playful, with an inspiring work ethic. Her effortlessly cool sense of glamour is underpinned with an empowered sense of self.’ Sounds very us. Styling details to note: who needs trousers when your accessory game is this hot? Checking in to The White Lotus immediately, etc.
As the esteemed American photographer celebrates his new Taschen book and a Mercedes-Maybach campaign, he tells Joe Bromley why London taught him a lesson
I moved here in 1984 and it was crazy. I had been working for Interview Magazine in New York and I came to shoot the scene happening in London. There was this cultural explosion happening with Leigh Bowery, Trojan and Michael Clark and Culture Club. We were in Taboo, and I fell in with people like Princess Julia, Jeffrey Hinton, John Maybury, the director, and Stevie and David from BodyMap. I was sleeping on their couches, I had no idea they were at the epicentre of creative London. I thought I’d seen it all in New York, but London was next level wildness. I learnt an important lesson in those years: a sense of originality. If you copied someone else's work you were looked down upon. It was not cool. Everyone had their own creative voice — today, so much is made from mood boards off Instagram and Pinterest. It’s bizarre that’s accepted.
Take a tour around the exquisite aesthetic partnership between Aldo Fallai and Giorgio Armani as a new exhibition details the 30-year creative relationship that helped set the Italian maestro’s powerful house tone. Curated by Armani himself, who says: ‘Working with Aldo allowed me from the very beginning to transform the vision I had in my mind into real images: to communicate that my clothes were not just made in a certain way with certain colours and materials, but that they represented a way of life. Because style, for me, is a total form of expression.’
12 May to 2 June, Giorgio Armani, 37-42 Sloane Street, SW1
Rupert Sanderson’s super chic new Fitzrovia store is just the spot to snap up a sexy pair of new kicks. Forget the boat shoe trend (eugh), we’re all about a block heel, thank you very much.
RUPERT SANDERSON Cavalla Cromato heels, £665, 61 Great Portland Street, W1, and rupersanderson.com
CUBITTS X YMC Tomba sunglasses, £150, youmustcreate.com
PROENZA SCHOULER WHITE LABEL top, £264, zalando.co.uk
PETIT MOMENTS Riele earrings, £34, revolve.com
DENIM TEARS shorts, £235, denim tears.com
ONITSUKA TIGER Mexico 66 trainers, £130, onitsukatiger.com
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