Dictators, tyrants, despots—whatever you want to call them—don’t exactly have the best public opinion and rightfully so. Their human rights atrocities aside, they also have appalling taste; yet oddly enough, some of them have crossed into mainstream and have become almost fashion icons. Take Givenchy’s women’s Pre-Fall 2012 collection, for example and how a little [...]

One of the more gentlemanly of sports is hunting, killing and mounting (in the non-zoophilic sense) one’s own prey, despite what the animal liberationists have to say on the subject. Recently, taxidermy has reared its head (my apologies) to once again become a stylish and edgy addition to any interior, because who doesn’t want a creepy [...]

Let’s kick off the year with a brief visit to one gone by. Famed Surrealism artist, Salvador Dalí and his wife, Gala hosted a charity dinner party in 1941; the hostess herself dressed as a unicorn, entertaining guests from a bed. Guests were treated to such delicacies as fish served from women’s satin slippers and [...]

You might have hauled a fifty-kilogram tree in from the car, cheated death and the park ranger when felling it in its natural habitat and breathed in enough dust when removing the ornaments from the cupboard to rival a James Hardie asbestos plaintiff, but I’m afraid that the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Christmas tree puts your [...]