features

• ONE STEP BEYOND: British architect Thomas Heatherwick talks about the unusual philosophy and Dali-esque design details of his new SoHo store for Longchamp
• SPIN SPIN SUGAR: performance art pioneer Charles Atlas keeps finding beauty in unusual places
• POLISH YOUR HOMME: imported manpower gets a makeover
• STONE ALONE: spectacular one-woman band Janine Roston is Planningtorock you
• SHINY CHAPPY PEOPLE: Tomasz Donocik’s jewellery-meets-accessories for blokes who want to be the mane man
• IT’S TERROR TIME: a new book diagnoses the 21st-century culture of fear
• HE’S GOTTA HAVE IT: tis the season to be a big girl’s blouse, femme fashion for men
• MODERN TIMES: MoMA’s new architecture and design curator believes the present can sometimes speak best through the past
• DEAD STYLISH: newcomer Agnes Kolignan’s collection is too ghoul for school
• BLUE SCREEN: Slavoj Žižek flashes Tank his Pervert’s Guide to Cinema
• BALLAD OF THE SADE CAFE: with a new London show, the visionary art of Pierre Klossowski finally gets it due
• POOL FOR YOU: this year’s Liverpool Biennial takes art to the people by making the whole city into a gallery
• BACK TO THE FUTURE: now that’s what I call 1980s, club fashion pays homage to the “me” decade
• CRITICAL RECEPTION: meet Aryan Kaganof, the South African behind the world's first-ever mobile phone-shot movie
• BIG LOVE: Mika Rottenberg and the first ever Frieze Art Fair International Award
• ALIEN NATION: sequins and wigs help fashionable replicants stay underground
• BLOAT COUTURE: thin was in, but now large is in charge
• THIS IS RADIO TANK: the superpeople behind the stellar sounds of this issues free CD
• AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: New York womenswear autumn/winter ‘06/‘07
• BOLD THE LINE: London womenswear autumn/winter ‘06/‘07
• SHOW YOUR CLASS DARKLY: Milan womenswear autumn/winter ‘06/‘07
• COUTURE CLUB: Paris womenswear autumn/winter ‘06/‘07
• G FORCE: backstage with the Galliano guy
• COASTAL ORDERS: the menswear forecast is changing for winter
• THE LADY VANISHES: when her clothes are this glamorous, who cars that Paule KA doesn’t exist?
• FEAR AND CRESCENT DANGER: in 1994 the Notorious B.I.G rapped, “Time to get paid, blow up like the world trade.” In 2006, your nan loves Jay-Z and a new breed of Islamic MCs are causing all the drama, is Jihad the new gangsta
• KHARTOUM TIME: how European architecture and local interest groups have put Khartoum, and its airport, back on the geopolitical map
• THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: the regeneration of east London for the Olympics in 2012 will mean and end to the strange utopia of Clays Lane, Stratford – take a final trip with us
• RADIO DADA: Resonance FM and the sound of a news kind of audio art
• CHANGING ROOMS: not buying it
• IMPERIAL BLATHER: celebrated writer and critic Pankaj Mishra explores the revisionist history and contemporary realities of empire
• SALLON SELECTIVES: a tribute to Philip Sallon, London’s “king of clubs”
• POP UP CITY: urbanism, once the stuff of glass, concrete and steel, is now likely to exist on your palm-top, says Dutch architectural practice Studio Popcorn
• YOU’RE NOT A FRIEND: it’s time to make a stand against the modern marketing disease of fake mateyness
• CURATED PAGES: Jack Hanley Gallery
• OH YEAH SHE’S A WILD ONE: can Juliette lick it? Yes she can
• A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME: true stories of domestic slaves from France, and the buildings that were their prisons