We’re celebrating a decade of the summer reader with an issue that strives to step beyond the limits of the literary. From a Romanian-language novelist who has never left his hometown in Japan, to Joan Jonas’ voiceless sculptures in wind, to Mark Pilkington’s collection of books on magick and the supernatural – we’re looking at the spaces in between meaning. Buy your copy today

If Chloe Qisha has a mission statement, it might be best summed up by her recent single “Sex, Drugs & Existential Dread”, a barbed anthem punctuated with a demented saxophone solo. It is Qisha’s philosophy of remixing classic styles with clever contemporary twists that makes her such a natural fit for Chanel Beauty “Timelessness in creative output is extremely important to me. Chanel holds such history, and I think they’re incredibly good at pushing the envelope and reinventing themselves without losing the magic of who they are at their core. They inspire me in that way.”

AKONI tasked TANK with a question: how does creative vision work? To answer, we brought together three leading voices from across art and architecture. In this first episode, we speak to multidisciplinary artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria about their 100-year project at Somerset House, how leaving America shifted their perspective, and the benefits of sometimes performing blind.

AKONI tasked TANK with a question: how does creative vision work? To answer, we brought together three leading voices from across art and architecture. In episode two of the series, we speak to Owen Watson, director of the award-wining architectural practice 6a. We spoke to Watson about designing the museum of the future, Juergen Teller’s favourite concrete mix, and how visiting old projects can be like meeting your ex.

AKONI tasked TANK with a question: how does creative vision work? To answer, we brought together three leading voices from across art and architecture. In the final episode of the series, we speak to Eva Langret, artistic director of Frieze London about creating a space for 90,000 people, being at the service of the artist, and on curation as storytelling. 

Fendi’s dynamic autumn/winter 2025 collection, as directed by Anne-Sophie Soudoplatoff. Original music and sound design by Dimitri Soudoplatoff.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a giant of letters. He sits down with his friend, Nadifa Mohamed, for lunch and a conversation about his new novel, Theft, which follows the lives of three young people in 1990s Zanzibar.

Chanel’s recent Métiers d’arts collection in Hangzhou was a celebration of delicate, dedicated artistry, inspired by Coco Chanel’s collection of painted coromandel screens. 

All aboard! Continuing in their spirit of poetic showmanship, Magliano is eschewing the runway and presenting their Spring/Summer 2026 collection in the form of a short film. Directed by Thomas Hardiman, the short film unfolds aboard a ferry bound for an undisclosed destination. As the camera glides through the ship's architecture, it captures glimpses of the collection: models share a passionate kiss; a beleaguered man argues over the phone; an accordionist wanders through the lounge. With a simmering jazz score by Federico Chiari, MAGLIANIC captures a world adrift, yet leaves us with a flicker of hope. The sun, after all, still rises.

British realist cinema tends to be synonymous with the kitchen sink drama of the 1960s, but this season of Now Showing sets out to broaden the scope. We’re showcasing a series of realist classics from these islands that don’t feature domestic arguments set in Northern kitchens but which interrogate the nature of representation itself. From the quiet serenity of turn-of-the-century Wales to the Technicolour vibrancy of the Swinging Sixties, these films examine how British filmmakers have used the medium to explore identity, class, race and gender; not just documenting the world as it is, but questioning how we perceive it. Here, realism reflects a constant negotiation between what we see and what we feel, against the changing backdrop of these strange isles.

This year, at a workshop focused on styling, Institut Français de la Mode BA students were invited to style key pieces from their graduation collections alongside pieces from the archive at Byronesque, an online brand specialising in contemporary vintage fashion. With pieces from iconic fashion houses meeting the most contemporary of styles, a powerful, forward-thinking dialogue emerged between rare fashion from the past and a series of still-evolving creative processes.

On a humid Friday night in Shanghai, as the city’s neon arteries pulsed along the Huangpu River, Hermès – never one to whisper when it can command – unfurled its second chapter of autumn/winter 2025 in a purpose built orange container.

Maria Grazia Chiuri leaves an indelible mark on Dior. In 2017, to mark her taking control at the house, Turner Prize-winning video artist and former TANKtv director Laure Provost created a video piece for TANK on the new Dior woman, as conceived by Chiuri. The infamous slogan T-shirt of Chiuri’s first collection, bearing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS, was at the time deeply divisive. Now, it’s a collectable classic from a period in which politics in fashion was newly declarative, breaking through years of stagnancy and complacency. Dior had hired its first woman as creative director – and in doing so, took itself from being a house famous for celebrating the feminine, to one celebrating the feminist.

This year, TANK visited the Huawei Innovative Product Launch to meet the foldable Mate XT. This tri-folding phone was presented in a rainy, busy Kuala Lumpur. Video by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie

On March 20, we hosted the premiere of Mike Figgis' new film Megadoc, his fly-on-the-wall documentary of the making of Francis Ford Coppola's epic Megalopolis. After the screening Mike was interviewed by artist and curator Gareth Evans, shot for TANKtv on Nikon Z8.

The second annual Miu Miu Literary Club was held in Milan this month. What does it have to teach us about womanhood today?

The cyclist has long inspired Johanna Parv’s modular designing, and this season reaches almost terminal velocity. Parv has perfected the art of introducing the technical to the glamorous, with sleek, synthetic drapery and ventilation slits and zips. Stay for the heavy breathing – whether it’s induced by a long bike ride or something altogether more sexy is up to you.

A model levitates, holds a uncomfortable-looking pose, and is squashed into a balls of plasticine. This is the moment before it all slides into proper debauchery – a feeling often exuded by Popova’s ravey, loungey, unapologetically hedonistic design.

London-based menswear designer Luke Derrick designs for “men who want to wear a suit but don’t want to spend any time ironing”. His new campaign of his existing collections, however, looks as sharp as anything, and is a masterclass in lazy elegance and reluctant machismo. 

The Ds squared – Dean and Dan Caton – were yanked out of the back of a police van to accept the applause for their runway show, which featured Doechii fresh from her Superbowl success and Naomi Campbell walking in black leather. A pitch-perfect way to celebrate 30 years.

For Milan Fashion Week, Danish/Italian uniform company Older joined forces with FACETASM, the anarchic Japanese ready-to-wear brand, for a capsule collection that blurred the lines between functionality and aesthetics. Worn by staff in two locations across the city, the collection looked to question how fashion interacts with its immediate surroundings. 

“We are in a very black moment,” said Muccia Prada gravely, of her relatively dark and un-showy Milan show. What we see on the Prada runway is often linked to externalities like art or politics, the connections are often noted by Mrs Prada herself – in this instance, something rangy and roomy (required perhaps for enabling us to be moving fast on this occasion).

Gucci sent out models for both mens and women's collection in looks designed by the in-house team, with creative director Sabato de Sarno having left the post last month. Perhaps the taunt, edgy live score by composer Justin Hurwitz corresponded to an underlying sense of strain and anticipoation in a collection of many highlights but lacking a central threme.

The Berlin-based darkwave duo on the joys of analogue synthesisers and Brian Wilson's genius.

The Kampala-based metal innovator discusses collaboration and his new album The Adept.

The End of the Road founder on 20 years of the UK's most acclaimed festival.

TANK caught up with the duo running Amniote Editions, Europe's most forward-thinking record label.

The composer and multi-instrumentalist on his new album Magic Seeds.

A new mix from the prolific producer brings 80s DIY aesthetics to the fray.

The New York industrial rockers spell it out for us. 

The Danish poet and songwriter on love, loss and Luton Airport.