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Freelance writer & editor 📚 đŸ‘šâ€đŸ’» 🗞 . NL & UK. Digital editor @the_gentlewoman. Making a podcast, slowly.
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Ta-da!⁠ A reformation for the ages.⁠ ⁠ In the new issue of The Gentlewoman, SUGABABES talk candidly about rekindling harmony after they each departed the powerhouse girl group they formed as teenagers. ⁠ ⁠ The founding members (L-R) Siobhàn Donaghy, Keisha Buchanan and Mutya Buena are back with a new single, “Ghost”, and news of a self-titled album — their first recorded under the Sugababes name in 26 years, since their breakthrough, 𝘖𝘯𝘩 đ˜›đ˜°đ˜¶đ˜€đ˜© (2000). ⁠ ⁠ KB: “We are so excited. But my mum taught me never to speak too soon. Don‘t tell anyone what you‘re planning. Just let it come out.“⁠ ⁠ SD: “The words ‘full circle’ come to mind.”⁠ ⁠ Read on in Issue n° 34, available via the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ Interview by Mark Smith⁠ Photography by Olya Oleinic⁠ ⁠ #TheGentlewoman⁠ #TGW34
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The Dutch label @martan.official uses discarded hotel bed sheets and tablecloths made from the finest Egyptian cottons to create its colourful clothing for men and women. “There’s⁠ enough textile in the world for the next six generations,” co-founder Diek Pothoven (@diekidiek) tells @amancalledmark for our menswear issue. “There’s no excuse to use new material.” Read on at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📾: © Evan Karsten⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #martan #SS27 #Egyptiancotton⁠
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Taking their rightful place alongside Kim Jones(!)’s new venture in today’s HTSI menswear special in Financial Times Weekend — the men of MARTAN, a very special circular brand from Amsterdam. Diek Pothoven and Douwe de Boer procure the fine linens (bedsheets, tablecloths) discarded by five star hotels and turn them into five star garments whose details — rope fastenings, reed prints and circular buckles — draw on their childhoods in watery landscapes. My ‘Selin’ jacket (last slide) is hands down the best thing I’ve bought this decade. But don’t take my word for it. The actual Rijksmuseum saw fit to host their SS27 show (thanks @spicepr) — how’s that for an endorsement? And from now until 4 October, MARTAN has a pop-up on the Prinsengracht. Altogether now: “What, this old thing?” etc
 @martan.official @fthtsi
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She’s here! Issue 34 of The Gentlewoman - featuring Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Celia Imrie, Coco Gauff, Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Hollie Davidson, John Glacier, Lira Valencia, Sophie Hicks, Sugababes, Sylvia Earle, Vivien Wong and MORE - is now on newsstands. Lucky us! ⁠ đŸ’« ⁠
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@fthtsi fashion special out today! Don’t miss: @isa_kountoure and @maxfarago’s beautifully chaotic shoot in Naples with cover star @anja_rubik @jellison22 meeting Mrs Prada and Raf. Me and @benjamincanares on fashion’s dirty looks. @amancalledmark at @rohe_frames historic atelier in Amsterdam. @aleks_cvetkovic goes back to the origins of @mytheresa.com in Munich, @zosuen steps into this season’s ‘wow’ shoes and @sarahkennellly talks to @jessicamiller about sexy vegan shoes. Plus Celia Birtwell is the #Aesthete, @louisquinze gets up close with Beryl Cook, @sofeaznidi digs into collectible fashion show invites with @hopeandglitter and the forever cool of @eunnamhong’s curly haired chicks. Put on your wow shoes and go buy @ft_weekend ❀ #beautifulchaos
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Can YOU bench press and quote Kierkegaard? I dove shirtless into the world of “bro-science” for today’s profile in the Times Magazine. Specifically (and less misleadingly) Chris Williamson spoke to me about the astounding and sometimes controversial success of his podcast, Modern Wisdom. The former nightclub promoter from Teeside appeared on the first season of Love Island (and even smuggled some contraband into the “Basra”-like villa). Now his own show — whose preoccupations are male self-improvement and evolutionary psychology — has been downloaded more than a billion times, with the likes of Bernie Sanders, Matthew McConaughey and Bonnie Blue appearing as guests. There’s a live tour in the works. Chris also talked candidly about the so-called curse of Love Island, specifically his friendship with the late Sophie Gradon and his prophetic observation that the show would generate casualties. “The environment of mass social media exposure for people who are not prepared for it — it’s so unreal, so surreal if you’re the kind of person who actually takes things to heart.” Read on, in your paper and online.
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An air-conditioned caravan park with cutesy ‘rooms’ in a former meat-processing plant in Amsterdam is attracting the cool crowd. Just leave your hairspray at home⁠ ⁠ Read more from @amancalledmark via the link in bio 🔗⁠
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Model @martemei has walked the catwalk for Gaultier and Givenchy, but her passion project is a furniture exhibition which opens next week at Antwerp’s @stvincents. For a year, she grew hemp in contaminated soil, drawing out toxic chemicals, then turned the plants into a brand new material which she’s shaped into tiles and sculptural tables. @amancalledmark has the full story at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📾: @amelieambroise⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #MarteMei #Phytoremediation
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With a sequel 20 years in the making, The Devil Wears Prada franchise has morphed from a movie about the horrors of working for a magazine into a movie about the horrors of NOT working for a magazine. That’s how NPR’s Linda Holmes put it, aptly. In 2008, humming ‘Suddenly I See’ and driven by an urgent desire to escape the Dubai heat during Ramadan (handily simultaneous with the Venice Film Festival), I made a solemn but vague and reckless promise to bring editorial attention to Emirates airline’s new daily route featuring BUSINESS CLASS WATER LIMOUSINE SERVICE. Fortunately for me, Andy Sachs herself came to the rescue, and DXB’s very own Miranda Priestly, Louise Nichol, made space in Grazia Middle East’s 10 (very) Hot Stories for this mildly intrusive but sincere fan encounter complete with all-important promotional end line. My personal water limo (“take me to your Lido”) was excellent — quite the way to make an absurdly over-grand entrance, with one misdirected autograph hunter asking what he’d “seen me in” — and certainly more comfortable than the bench I slept on one night. Summer of glam indeed. That’s all. @tdwp2
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So many people, places and pretty things from all over the world in this weekend’s issue of @fthtsi - from @martemei in Amsterdam to Terence Lane in Melbourne, @billbensley in Chiang Mai, #ChrisBlack in NYC, #MagnusNilsson in Båstad, @catofglin in Laois, #TroyeSivvan in London and #anatomica in Paris. Plus, the best colourful sweaters to wear anywhere. â€ïžđŸ©”đŸ’› @ft_weekend
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TODAY. I know it sounds like the kind of bobbins people put on Instagram for the purposes of self-promotion(!) but in my household the visual shorthand for “Dad” was always to mime “person engrossed in the Financial Times” — so it’s a thrill to have my first story for the esteemed organ’s @fthtsi magazine appear on its cover. And what an assignment! (thanks, @katefinnigan__ @craftacularuk @jellison22 and @louisquinze ). The Dutch designer and model Marte Mei Haaster welcomed me into her beautiful home for a preview of the furniture collection she’s made through the process of phytoremediation — drawing PFAS (aka “forever chemicals”) out of polluted soil using hemp supercharged with mushrooms. đŸŒ±đŸ„. How Amsterdam is that? And how genuinely optimism-inducing, too. Not many side tables do that. It’s part of the issue’s wider consideration of multi hyphenate talents, dontchaknow. Exquisite photography by Amélie Ambroise, who I note resisted the temptation to do “mirror selfie with the talent”. Unlike yours truly (last slide). That’s a pro. Link in bio.
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When she’s not walking runways, the catwalk model @martemei is researching land regeneration and revolutionising sustainable design. On the eve of a new exhibition at Antwerp’s @stvincents @amancalledmark meets her at her Amsterdam home. Hit the link in bio to read on.⁠ ⁠ 📾: @martemei⁠ and @amelieambroise⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠⁠ #martemeivanhaaster #stvincents ⁠
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