Mark C. O'Flaherty

Mark C. O'Flaherty talks to Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant and 40 years of image making

Linder Sterling has always been immersed, never just an observer. A cult figure since the 1970s, her work is immediate, visceral, subversive, glamorous, political, cathartic and often incredibly funny. But it’s laughter in the dark.

The artist-designer swapped city bustle for a hilltop home in Higashiyama — it mirrors his Zen approach to life

Independent fragrance houses are developing intense, earthy concoctions that add witchy magic to dark nights

“Get in and drive!” How Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee put Antwerp on the fashion map when they debuted their work in London in 1986

How a cartoon heart conquered the world

When the Park Hyatt opened on the 14 highest floors of the Kenzo Tange-designed Shinjuku Park Tower in 1994, it established a template that dozens of luxury Tokyo hotels would follow.

‘It can be quite a Rear Window experience here’. The artist and filmmaker has swapped walls for glass in his bijou London flat

From a forbidden symbol of Highlands insurrection to a couture code in works by McQueen, Westwood, Chanel et al, the mighty tartan has bridged centuries of fashion history

Nigel Cabourn, Margaret Howell and Paul Smith have been Japanese favourites for the past four decades. What’s their secret?

I’ve been writing about hotels for nearly 30 years now and the rest of my work generally involves a stay somewhere other than home too. This got me thinking, just how many hotels have I stayed in?

Ahead of his Palais Galliera exhibition, Owens discusses his musical influences—from English rock to Cher and Charli xcx.

At Home with the FT: Iconoclasm and humour mark the ethos of the magpie interior designer at his eccentric 18th-century house in Somerset, a joyous, foraged corn

The Fife Arms paved the way for a new breed of stay and now the likes of Ardbeg are following in its footsteps

Her colourful career has spanned more than five decades. Now the designer is looking to her legacy