Robert Mapplethorpe: En Vogue?Clara YoungArtReview23 April 2024Robert Mapplethorpe at Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris is Edward Enninful’s take on ‘What’s My Mapplethorpe?’
Bath By the Sofa: A ‘Philosophy of the Home’Clara YoungArtReview28 March 2024Are our infinitely penetrable Swiss-cheese shelters the best we can hope for?
A Night at the Serge Gainsbourg MuseumClara YoungArtReview17 January 2024As a legendary songwriter’s house opens to the public, Clara Young finds an audioguide becomes a daughter’s whispered testament to her father
The Bloomsbury Set’s Fashion was Another Way of Breaking with ConventionClara YoungArtReview22 November 2023
Fashion Designer Marine Serre’s Dark Art of UpcyclingClara YoungArtReview06 May 2022Hers is an end-of-world view. It is not wholesome and climate-friendly but apocalyptically avant-garde.
Between Vanitas and Vanity: on Martin Margiela’s Debut Art ShowClara YoungArtReview11 March 2022Instead of sewing dummies and shoulder pads, the fashion designer has the tricks and tools – like Super-8 films and Flemish oil painting techniques – of a new trade to riff on
In a Time of Disorder, Fashion Yearns for Global OrderClara YoungArtReview01 June 2021From statecraft blue to peacekeeping berets, recent runways have suggested sartorial odes to the Security Council