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Women artists you should know: Nilima Sheikh (b. 1945)
One of South Asia's most important living painters — and at 80, she's only now getting her first New York solo show.
I went to see Emma Hemingford play Hey, Baby this week. The play charts the story of two sisters. The older one Anna at 38, has been unable to conceive and wants badly to start IVF but her partner is worried about her mental health and won’t agree to it. The younger sister Bex sort of crashes through life, is incapable of making big decisions and accidentally gets pregnant with her on-off boyfriend. She decides to ‘give’ the baby to her sister and let her raise it as her own. The play is brilliant at exposing…
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I think a lot of menswear is boring nowadays because many brands are run by people with no technical skills.
175 years ago, a lot of menswear was made by bespoke tailors. The rise of industrial manufacturing and ready-to-wear then broke the job of a bespoke tailor into more specialized roles — designer, pattern maker, sewer, and so forth.
Today, there are a ton of brands run by people with no technical skills at all. They are not tailors, designers, pattern makers, or sewers. Instead, they send…
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