BIANCA SAUNDERS
The 2021 winner of the Andam award, one of fashion's most prestigious prizes, Bianca Saunders was selected for her subtly subversive designs, which play with the traditional textures and proportions of menswear garments. Her upbringing, in the London suburb of Lewisham, inspires much of her work, which she describes as making the 'familiar unfamiliar', and her S/S23 collection looked towards Jamaican 'hard food', such as plantains and yams, and how they are boiled for long periods until soft. 'I liked the idea of conceptualising that into how I worked with materials,' she says. 'So pieces were either hard in the front or soft in the back, or had the fluidity of water. It was a different way of bringing my culture into fashion.' A boundary-pushing approach has been part of her label since its inception, following her MA graduation from London's Royal College of Art in 2017. 'I like that menswear has rules to it,' she says. 'So then I start thinking: how do you push those boundaries?' biancasaunders.com
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Guiding Light - Designer Joe Armitage follows his grandfather's footsteps in India, reissuing his elegant midcentury lamp and creating a new chandelier for Nilufar Gallery
For some of us, family inheritances I tend to be burdensome, taking up space, emotionally and physically, in both our minds and attics. For the London-based designer and architect Joe Armitage, however, a family heirloom has taken him somewhere lighter and brighter, across generations and continents, and into the path of Le Corbusier. This is the story of a lamp designed by Edward Armitage in India 72 years ago, which has today been expanded into a collection of lights by his grandson Joe.
POLE POSITION
A compact Melbourne house with a small footprint is big on efficiency and experimentation
URBAN OASIS
At an art-filled Mexico City residence, New York designer Giancarlo Valle has put his own spin on the country's traditional craft heritage
WARM FRONT
Designer Clive Lonstein elevates his carefully curated Manhattan home with rich textures and fabrics
BALCONY SCENE
A Brazilian island hotel offers a unique approach to the alfresco experience
ENSEMBLE CAST
How architect Anne Holtrop is leaving his mark on the Middle East
Survival mode
A new show looks at preparing for a post-apocalyptic landscape (and other catastrophes)
FLASK FORCE
A limited-edition perfume collaboration between two Spanish craft masters says it with flowers
BLOOM SERVICE
A flower-shaped brutalist beauty in Geneva gets a refresh
SECOND NATURE
A remodelled museum in Lisbon, by Kengo Kuma & Associates, meshes Japanese and Portuguese influences to create a space that sits in harmony with its surroundings