Our next daily to do list sees AnOther’s fashion features director Alexander Fury share his cultural recommendations – from Netflix’s runaway hit series Tiger King to revisiting 1990s fashion shows
We at AnOther believe that in this unprecedented time of isolation, economic uncertainty, and social distancing, culture is more important than ever. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be publishing daily to do lists, curated by the AnOther Magazine and Another Man teams, as they share things to look at, listen to, watch, read, or follow, to get you through.
Listen...
“I am not a podcast listener – but I have downloaded Audible French learning books, and am trying to use some of the time at home to better myself and finally learn another language properly. Feels like a good use of my time.”
Read...
“There are fantastic repositories of long-form journalism online. As a long-term subscriber to The New York Times, the fact their entire archive back to 1851 is digitised is astounding, and allows the unearthing of gems. I am also reading old Vanity Fair pieces from the magazine’s Tina Brown 80s. And there are a wealth of AnOther Magazine pieces available online – entire profile features from across the decades. Definitely worth a trawl, without the need to turn a physical page.”
Watch...
“I am a huge fan of trashy and morbid real-life television, so watched the entirety of the Netflix series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness pretty much as soon as it came out (although I wasn’t actually waiting for the moment it to be uploaded, as with Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile in New York last year). It’s a bizarre and compelling story, filled with twists and turns. And hopefully not entirely devoid of merit.”
Look...
“An odd choice, given that everyone is confined indoors, but I am obsessed with Horst’s interior photography from the 1950s onwards – his series of photographs for Architectural Digest of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s villa at 4 Route du Champ d’Entraînement in Paris are beautiful but decidedly melancholic, and quite unlike his fashion imagery. There is a wonderful hardback book of these images, but many are also available online.”
Follow...
“I am an avowed user of Instagram – I downloaded TikTok and cannot understand it, which makes me feel ancient. As does the Instagram account @unforgettable_runway which posts archive fashion moments, the majority from the 1990s, which I remember disturbingly well. In a moment of social distancing when fashion shows could transform into other entities entirely, they could be a window on a lost time. Plus, nostalgia is a sedative in tough times like these. Why not dream a bit?”