Mark C. O'Flaherty

The designer talks about perverse femininity, working with Gaultier and the influence of her Irish heritage

New exhibitions explore the legacy of the performance artist

A new book pays homage to the grande dame of drape

From a distance, the new curtains in the fashion designer Erica Toogood’s cottage on the borders of Hampshire and West Sussex look like billowing taffeta in a rich, golden khaki colour. “It’s actually waterproof fabric from a factory in Scotland,” says Toogood, 42, who lives here with her husband, Thomas Downes, 46, an architect, and their son, Cass, six.

Excavation in modern architecture has a bad rap these day, but when furniture designer James Shaw bought a mini plot of land close to Columbia Road flower market in east London, he realised he would have to build down if he wanted to turn it into a home.
The result, developed with architect Nicholas Ashby, is an extension of James’s experimental, colourful product ...

The food is divine. The architecture is exquisite. So why is it lit like a hospital room?

Meet the carpenter preserving a rich history of carnivals and characters

Many designers aspire to the label polymath, but no one polymaths as hard and relentlessly as Ramdane Touhami

The Brazilian furniture designer is about to unveil his first sculpture park. It’s an ode to bohemianism and a tribute to his brother

A shift to couture a decade ago has proved a masterstroke, attracting a stellar list of clients and off-the-wall collaborations

Mark C. O’Flaherty on the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, carbonara, and the rarest, realest, bloodiest of steaks in Rome

Having made Morocco his home, the iconic Italian creative has opened a modernist five-bedroom riad that reflects his visionary style

One half of Italian fashion’s celebrated partnership on shaping Valentino Garavani’s vision, partying with Elizabeth Taylor — and why luxury is now in a ‘different universe’

Our columnist awarded his first ever perfect score last year, to Estelle Manor, and it got him thinking about what full marks really translates as

Mark C. O'Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing.