Portrait: Horst P. Horst
By Catherine Jacobi The photographer behind Vogue’s most famous corset also designed his own house, planted his own garden and spent decades in other people’s drawing rooms, looking at each of them with the same exacting eye. Summer fashion at Horst’s house, Oyster Bay, 1948. Horst P. Horst for Vogue. © Condé Nast / Horst […]
Ngatu, the Tongan cloth that keeps the record
By Catherine Jacobi A comet, a schoolboy king and a Spitfire named for a queen: how the women of Tonga turned barkcloth into a record of the moments their islands chose to remember. Photo: James Alcock, 2023. © Australian Museum. On the morning of June 9, 2023, two cranes lifted a heavy roll from the […]