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The Death Of Popular Music And Youth Culture
When everything becomes the same, it all ceases to have any importance. Looking into youth culture’s sad slide into insignificance.
Come Fly With Me! The Lost World Of Glamorous Air Stewardesses
Gratuitously sexy advertising and ultra-cool fashions from the days of the jet set.
The Grand Flâneur Walk
The aimless march of the dandy returns to London after a two-year break.
The Satanic Flea Market Is Coming
Join The Reprobate at the alternative collector’s market.
Fakers, All: The World Of Self-Mythologising
The false personas, created lifestyles, attention-seeking humblebrags and empty entitlement of the online world.
Sob Story: The ASA’s Puritanical Fear Of The Female Body
The self-declared advertising authority uses modern buzzwords to disguise the decidedly Victorian morality behind its decisions.
Now Kissing Is Considered To Be Sexually Explicit: The Continuing Madness Of The ASA
Britain’s ever-prudish advertising censors get worked up about the idea of couples showing fully-clothed affection for each other.
The Bizarre And Disturbing World Of Victorian Taxidermy Hats
The weird turn of the century craze for wearing stuffed animals as headwear.
The Insufferable Arrogance Of Instantly Forgotten Musicians
The misplaced egotism of the here today, gone later today pop star.
The King’s New Digital Clothes
If your clothes don’t actually exist in physical form, is there any point in wearing them?
Damn Fine Advertising: David Lynch’s TV Commercials
A smattering of the great director’s impressively stylish and uncompromised advertising work.