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    Helen Barrett was the deputy editor of FT Wealth magazine, and former editor of FT House & Home. She was also previously the FT’s Work & Careers editor. She joined the FT in 2012 after stints as a freelance journalist, and as a reporter on business magazines. Before retraining as a journalist, she spent a decade working in London’s advertising industry.

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    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      ReviewFashion
      Eve Arnold’s forgotten photographs of the 1950s Harlem fashion scene

      The famed photographer of Marilyn Monroe sought to document African-American culture long before the mainstream was interested

      Charlotte Stribling aka ‘Fabulous’ poses in Harlem-made clothes in a nightclub. Harlem, New York City
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Interiors
      Weaving migraine visions into psychedelic tapestries

      Finnish artist Kustaa Saksi has lived with the immobilising headaches since childhood. His work is an attempt to understand them

    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      Travel
      Postcard from London: reclaiming the streets from Jack the Ripper

      As murder-themed tours have grown increasingly prevalent, residents of Spitalfields have set up their own — less bloodthirsty — alternative

      A man addresses a group of people in a street at night
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Style
      The power play of dressing for a portrait

      Clothing is part of history at the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Portrait of a park: Zürich’s groundbreaking vertical garden, MFO-Park

      This playful green space pays tribute to the city’s industrial heritage while expressing its forward-facing take on urban renewal

      A metal upper-floor balcony flanked by steel grid covered in green and red climbing plants at MFO-Park
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      House & Home
      Coronation ceramics: are they iconic — or ironic?

      Ahead of the crowning of King Charles III, we explore the history of commemorative royal china

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    • Saturday, 22 April, 2023
      House & Home
      The London districts nobody knows: where are NoHo, Midtown and Brain Yard?

      When property developers ‘place-brand’, the result can be incongruous, inappropriate — or just laughable

      Illustrated map of central London
    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      Fashion
      The hunt for Andy Warhol’s rare fabric designs

      An exhibition in London reveals the painstaking process of tracking down the artist’s whimsical textiles featuring his trademark repeat images that would later define him

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    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      The Art of Fashion: Fantastic Shapes
      Monster Chetwynd: ‘I enjoy the mischief’

      The performance artist on the role that costume plays in her work and life

      A woman posing while wearing a wig, a pink catsuit encrusted with crimson rhinestones and skates
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Into the Groove — why vinyl is still music to our ears

      Jonathan Scott tracks the scientific ingenuity and corporate rivalry that created recorded music’s most durable format

      Sailors gather around a record player
    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      InterviewStyle
      Designer Pam Hogg: ‘Kids at school called me a witch. But I loved it!’

      The punky outlier who gave us Kylie Minogue in a catsuit is back in London with a show that plays on her sorcerous image

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Special ReportCircular Economy
      Wanted: designers who aim to rethink product design

      Meet three innovators with very different approaches to cutting waste and pollution

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    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Fashion
      The costume collector who dressed Bowie and The Specials

      From mod suits to new romantic flounces, Roger Burton on his obsession with youth subculture styles

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    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      House & Home
      How to restore a house to imperfection

      Pristine is passé — a new, sustainable aesthetic showcases the scars of the past while preserving a building’s history and collective memory

      fire-damaged room in Clandon Park
    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Holiday gift guide 2022
      Sandrine Zhang Ferron: ‘It’s the thought, not the money, that counts’

      The Vinterior founder enlisted an app to help her plan for Christmas

      A smiling woman sits on cream-coloured fabric chair with a mahogany chest behind her and a porcelain leopard at her side
    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Holiday gift guide 2022
      Yinka Ilori’s gifts — a lucky dip, so no one is disappointed

      The British-Nigerian designer enjoys lavishing jewellery on his friends and seeks out inclusive toys for younger relatives

      A man in a bright green jacket and grey trousers sits among colourful chairs
    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      Style
      When it comes to style, Bob Dylan still gets it right

      Even in his eighties, the enigmatic performer always looks elegant

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Style
      What our closets say about our bad fashion habits

      Disposable clothing and careless spending have inflated our wardrobes, as a new exhibit shows

      Three women from the 1950s deliberate over the colourful and elaborate dresses in a large wardrobe
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      PAD London 2022
      The Design Museum’s Tim Marlow: ‘You can escape art. But you can never escape design’

      He wants wide-ranging shows from Amy Winehouse to sneakers to demonstrate the discipline’s importance

      A man with spiky white hair looks upwards. He is standing between two metallic surfaces so we see his blurred reflection
    • Monday, 19 September, 2022
      InterviewMusic
      Musician Laura Leezy on her wild stage style

      Khruangbin’s bass player never wears the same stage outfit twice, except her wig

      Laura Lee photographed for the FT at the Forwards Festival, Bristol
    • Saturday, 17 September, 2022
      Travel
      Postcard from Bath: Britain’s oldest lido prepares to reopen

      More than 200 years old, Cleveland Pools suffered years of neglect — and was once used as a trout farm — but has been restored to its former glory

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      Life of a SongFloor-filling funk and disco classics and their stories, starring James Brown, Blondie and more
      September — a cosmic-disco celebration of love and happiness

      As darker days and longer nights return, Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1979 track brings light and life

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Style
      What performance artists wear

      From fur bikinis to wearable sculptures and human sound systems — the costumes that challenge, change and liberate

    • Monday, 22 August, 2022
      The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: Autumn 2022
      For photographer Ingrid Pollard, clothing is part of the job

      The Turner Prize-nominee on the role of costume in her life and work

      Ingrid Pollard
    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      Fashion
      In Oslo, a new library for fashion magazines

      Twenty-two-year-old Elise By Olsen prepares for the opening of her latest venture, housing an extraordinary trove of printed ephemera

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