AFTER THOUGHTS: Atom Egoyan and Nadifa Mohamed discuss problems of translation and trauma in The Sweet Hereafter
Republic of Chic | Issue 30
fronting
- THE POWER OF DREAMS: remembering the DJ John Peel
- BARKING: the Russians are coming to Tank.tv
- ART OF AFRICA: an exhibit of African art demolishes clichés
- THE NATURE OF MAN: Comme des Garçons make a scent that works for men at work
- SHADES OF NEW YORK: Pippa Vosper Frames fashion week
- A COMMON TIE: scrunchies – not yet a trend
- GOING UNDERGROUND: without underground trains, where would our modern cities be? metro celebrates the subway
- THE LONDON UNDERGARMENT: a celebration of provocation – 10 years f Agent Provocateur
- FASHION WEEK: spring/summer ’05, photography by Sean Cunningham
- THE QUIET ONE: a new drama exposes Japan’s million teenage hermits
- ALL IN ONE: the boiler suit is back
- Y NOT: the bmx goes Yamamoto, and everyone wins
- OLE SCHEREEN: he can’t sketch. but that doesn’t stop him heading one of the world’s largest building projects
- BENJAMIN KIRCHHOFF: his latest collection features man-bras and skeletons
- VILLAGE PEOPLE: drugs, drink and Vincent Gallo – fond memories of New York’s finest quarter at the East Village usa exhibit
- MENSWEAR: spring/summer 2005 in Milan and Paris
- WHITE CLUB: the baggy t gets its fashion resurrection
- SLINT: the man from Slint delivers a world exclusive between mouthfuls of coffee
- CONRAD SHAWCROSS: Conrad Shawcross’s new works make waves at the National Maritime Museum
- RINEKE DIJKSTRA: a retrospective of the influential Dutch photographer unfolds in Paris
- ALPHA MALE: Akira the Don talks about life, ladybirds and his brilliant musical future
- RUNNING ON DIESEL: at the International Talent Support show in Trieste, Tank sees the future according to Diesel
- RELEASE THE BATS: why the tick is everything is Heidi Slimane’s new watch for Christian Dior
- ARCHITECTURE AND PRACTICE: or every building built, countless other projects stay on the drawing board. Archilab Tokyo reunites some of the best Utopian upstarts
- CUTTING A NEW LOOK: the new Dior jacket harks back through history for a highly modern shape
- NEW MUSIC EXPRESS: why the smartest A&R man these days is tuned into Channel U
- NOT HAVIN’ IT: a favourite holiday destination reveals unexpected depths and surfaces in a new book
- PALE AND PROFOUND: what not to put on your lips this season
- FUTURE SOUND OF GLASGOW: Glasgow takes sectarianism and strife and makes inimitable music of it
- CRACKERJACKS: beige doesn’t need to be dull. not when it’s Beige Programming Ensemble
- THE SCISSOR SISTER: what happens when one of Savile Row’s finest moves in with the girls? Henry Rose, master tailor at Stella McCartney, talks to Tank
- MCQUEEN TAKES CASTLE: Tank’s exclusive preview of Alexander McQueen’s spring/summer 2005 collection
- SCENTS ABILITY: Prada’s new fragrance and the man who made it
- AS DARKNESS SETS IN: only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleep
- NOW KATO: without war, peace wouldn’t have such good wristwatches. Tank surveys the best military timepieces around
features
- PHOTOGRAPHY AS CONTEMPORARY ART: curator Charlotte Cotton gives Tank an exclusive introduction to her new book
- BLOOD AND GUTS: what happens when a soldier is downed in Iraq
- BOBBY FISCHER’S STRANGEST ENDGAME: the strange goings-on in the world of Bobby Fischer, chess legend, eccentric and prisoner
- RUSSIAN ARK: Melanie Manchot’s new photographs take on the Russian state with a camera and some passing traffic
- BOO DOT COM VS NET A PORTER: Natalie Massenet of net-a-porter.com talks to Ernst Malmsten of boo.com about logging on and logging off
- TARANTINO: Quentin and you
- THE ATTACK OF RAMMELLZEE: rapper and recluse Rammellzee emerges to speak to Tank, in tongues
- THE MONSTER THAT WON’T SLEEP: twenty years ago, in Bhopal, India, Union Carbide set off the worst industrial disaster in history
- THIS IS RADIO TANK: Munk, Lopazz, New Young Pony Club, Twisted Charm, Ichinchilla, The Cazals, Lady Sovereign, Rammellzee, Rhythm King and Her Friends, Caspa Codina, Sons & Daughters
- MUSEUM WITHOUT LIMITS: the Centre Pompidou in Paris is the world’s most popular museum. will the sequel perform equally well
- WORDS’ WORTH: how to teach literature to a whole country at once. or, the art of the novel
- TOKYO GEMS: sanaa were part of Prada’s global design bid to elevate fashion through haute-couture architecture. now, they are taking white gallery space to next-level purity
- BABY IT’S YOU: Kenya’s “miracle babies” scandal and its implications for church, state and Britain’s immigrant nurses
- CITIES WITHOUT HISTORY: Eurostyle building is taking hold of modern China
- LE CROC SPORTIF: Lacoste’s creative director talks to Tank about crocodiles and athletics
- FABULOUS KINKY: photography by Sean + Seng, styling by Spela Lenarcic
- MALABAR SUSHI: photography by John Spinks, styling by William Gilchrist
- GHOST IN THE MACHINE: photography by Masoud, styling by Hannah Bhuiya
- THE SEA OF MEMORIES: photography by Paulo Zambaldi, styling Djellel
- SHANGHAI GIO: photography by Stefano Galuzzi, styling by Tanya Jones
- FLASH FICTION: 11 short stories, written exclusively for Tank