Caroline Tomlinson spent 15 years as a designer and art director before making the shift she'd been circling for years — full-time fashion illustration. Central Saint Martins graduate, collaborator with Rankin, Dior and Louboutin, and a committed believer in happy accidents. This is a conversation about lines, marks, and what it means to let the ink lead.

She watched her grandmother weave in Turkey. Then she put rubber tubing and acrylic dowels through the same loom. Desire Moheb-Zandi — Berlin-born, Istanbul-raised, New York-marching — on textile art as feminist statement, the loom as analogue computer, and why we need activists more than ever.

Leila Antakly interviews Wilhelmina international model and scholar Samira Mahboub on culture change and cross-cultural communications.

In the early 2000s, Dubai's contemporary art scene was not a given. It was a possibility waiting for a catalyst. Sunny Rahbar became that catalyst. She built audience before she built sales. She hosted film screenings and talks and club nights before she went to Frieze. She defended artists who had no gallery representation and watched them grow into artists shown in every significant Western institution. An Arabic name on a Western gallery's roster is no longer unusual. She is one of the reasons why.

Paula Mendoza was a journalist before she was a goldsmith. One course changed everything: Jewelry as Sculpture, at Washington's Corcoran School of the Arts. A pilgrimage through Peru's ancient filigree workshops did the rest. Today her pieces are worn by Beyonce, Zendaya, and Sarah Jessica Parker, her artisans in Bogota have worked with her for over a decade, and her wedding in 2026 had a dress code of all black, a lineup of five DJs from Burning Man, and a theme called Rave Royale. She is, as Leila says, something special.