A post-apocalyptic Miu Miu show blended dystopian aesthetics and feminine charm. Set in what looked like a newspaper factory, it proved that even in a world of chaos, beauty and individuality can thrive. The installation for Miu Miu's Spring/Summer 2025 show was created by Polish artist Goshka Macuga, who designed the newspaper factory sett, the fictional newspaper it produced (The Truthless Times) and the opening film – all of which explored themes of misinformation and manipulation.

Here is the much-anticipated return to the catwalk by the Italian maestro Alessandro Michele, now at the helm of the Roman brand. Credited for single-handedly reviving the giant house of Gucci to the extent that it was at one point accounting for half of all sales of the entire luxury industry, Michele is no ordinary appointment. A designer who is, like the brand, also from Rome, Michele is a man on whose shoulder the future of Italian design has a substantial grip.

Strength, individuality - the empowerment of the female form ready for the Age of Aquirius. As only Donatella knows how.

Erdem’s SS25 collection was presented at the iconic  British Museum forecourt was a supremely confident display of subtle creativity. Full of delicate embellished details, a tightrope walk between the masculine and feminine with a dash of kinky thrown in for good measure. Scroll down to see the show in full, all back stage photography is by Francesco Zinno

From Duran Lantink’s beachy bodysuits with absurdist characteristics, to Courreges’ architectural, BDSM-inspired minimalism, to Ottolinger models emerging from a shark’s mouth with choppy, asymmetrical dresses to match, bold sartorial flourishes defined this season's PFW. Click to see exclusive BTS photos from the shows.
All backstage photography by Francesco Zinno

On this channel, we’re showing an exclusive selection of works from the archive of the Architectural Association, the oldest school of architecture in London. Dr Ingrid Schroder is the Director of the AA, taking up the role after being Head of Design Teaching and Director of the MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design  at the University of Cambridge. Schroder has also held positions at prestigious institutions like ETH Zurich. Here she sets out her vision – and the school's understanding of – the ever-evolving and expanding profession, beginning with: what really is architecture?

A murder in Shinjuku. To reveal the hidden narratives of the city, the architect works as a detective. Everything starts from the most detailed and the most unremarkable elements… Made by Qi Zhu and Kin Ho Tse (AA Diploma 10, tutor: Carlos Villanueva Brandt), together with Kazutaka Miwa, Hina Fukawa and Shotaro Akiya of Tokyo University of the Arts, “City Detective Industry” approaches the city like an unsolved murder.

The UN have recently reported financial links between Mexico’s Los Zeta cartel and the illegal trading of the rare earth mineral Otinif, a material critical to the manufacture of the next generation of super faster digital processors. Seen from Google earth, Aditnálta is an anonymous island off the East Coast of Mexico but as the world’s richest source of Otinif it is a landscape being consumed by our hunger for technology. Hidden from this distanced aerial view are vast underground worker towns and oppressive mining conditions. Aditnálta is an outsourced landscape embedded in all the pieces of technology we carry in our pockets. Aditnálta is also entirely fictional. Mond Qu has constructed and dispersed the forged fragments of this island across the internet. This imaginary place is made manifest through hoax listing on Wikipedia and Google maps, live webcams of scale model stage sets, faked articles on news sites and green screen CGI composites on Flickr, Youtube and Panoramio. Just like the real landscapes of outsourced electronics production we consume Aditnálta at a distance, through edited media narratives, disconnected from the realties that go on there. Through the construction of elaborate fictions we can reveal important truths.

This film takes place in remote Australia, which for fifty years has been unconsenting host to testing from nuclear weapons, rocket launches and black military technologies. The film maps out these tests, and in doing, creates what the Funambulist called “a protocol for [...] a weaponised architecture, that envisions the implementation of architecture as a political positioning.” 

The project constructs a cinematic journey that unveils the unique rhythm of urban life through the lens of “ChronoUrbanity”. The film follows Kingsland Road in Hackney up from south to north, showing various inhabitants interacting with nodes on the route, showing that the city is also created from these everyday encounters as well as buildings. 

“there is a city where the word ‘regeneration’ rings in the air. declared. shouted. whispered. sighed. it lingers like a sweet aroma, whetting palates and lubricating fountain pens.” Johnson’s 2016 film proposes a series of insertions along an East London infrastructural route, constructed from cast shadows, and creating a wavering second city that sits darkly inside the visible. 

In the Division’s Bureau of Rare Earthworks, Kay has conjured Jīngjù-on-Sea, a Peking Opera that performs an act of consumerism on a huge scale. Echoing the quantities and trajectories of the existing rare earth mineral supply chain, thousands of tonnes of earth are removed from the central Chinese landscape, and through the tools of the opera – as makeup, costume and set – are brought to London to be deposited in the Thames Estuary.

This project presents the Holy Fool Studio for collective and disruptive making. The studio disrupts norms to enact change through play and the embracing of non-experts and imperfection. For the studio, design success is cheap, non-standard, participatory, expressive, has easy instructions and a touch of the handmade. “Everybody Needs a Holy Fool” explores ways that foolishness and irreverence shift society by disrupting norms and subverting the dominant language of power through collective making – here, reacting to the latest pro-LGBTQ London plan with flowers, bottom-up toilets and an inflatable Joiners Arms.

In the first of four exclusive films, Erik Davis discusses his seminal work, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, which explores the intersection of technology, spirituality, and mysticism in the digital age. Davis delves into how ancient beliefs and mystical practices are interwoven with modern technological advancements, hidden beneath the surface of our contemporary world.

In Arles, Dior Beauty presents its seventh edition of the Photography and Visual Art Award for Young Talents. TANK zoomed into the French city to speak to Brigitte Lacombe, photographer and president of the selection jury, and to cast a spotlight on the work of the thirteen young photographers in the running. 

A.K. Blakemore reads from her novel The Glutton, which reimagines the life of Tarrare, an 18th-century peasant notorious for his voracious appetite and colourful, short life. 

Gboyega Odubanjo is a poet from East London. He is the author of two poetry pamphlets, While I Yet Live (Bad Betty Press, 2019) and Aunty Uncle Poems (The Poetry Business, 2021). For TANK, he reads “London is the Place for Me” from his forthcoming full-length collection Adam. 

Published: 05/06/2023

The lavish wedding celebration of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant in Mumbai lasted for weeks and is estimated to have cost $600M. Oxford Historian Faisal Devji looks back at the genealogy of extravagant Indian weddings of recent times, tracking their evolving character. In the history of India's faltering democracy and the place of India in a post-globalised and multi-polar world, the meaning of oligarchic power is subject to increasing change.

The recent attempted assassination of Donald Trump is considered by Faisal Devji both historically and as part of a political culture where such attempts present more frequently than anywhere else in the world. The American culture of gun worship and widespread gun ownership and mass shootings is well documented, but now more than ever, power and politics are conditioned by the culture of the spectacle, and spectacularity trumps even guns.

Oxford historian Faisal Devji specialises in studies of Islam, globalisation, violence and ethics. In this episode, Professor Devji considers the place of Palestine in the global context of resistance and struggle, and against wider recent global transformations, arguing that these recent events are likely to have a longer-lasting historical impact than many have so far considered. 

Faisal Devji is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in the political thought and contemporary history of the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world. In the light of the recent rebellion by the Wagner group in Russia, he reflects on the trend for and the perils of using contractors and merceneries.

Faisal Devji is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in the political thought and contemporary history of the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world. Here he discusses civil war as a historical theme, why it has made a return and how we could break out of its destructive cycle. 

Faisal Devji is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in the political thought and contemporary history of the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world. Here he sets out how neutrality as a mode of international relations is making a most welcomed return. As the historical moment of a unipolar world order passes and with it the need for international law and institutions becomes self evident, neutrality is once again seen as a highly useful position from which to appeal for peace.

The elusive syncretist on her new album Hex.

Electronic shapeshifter BABii on her violent new album Daredevil2000.

The Scottish-Danish musician on bells, Catholicism and her entrancing new album World of Work.

The London-based polymath on collective practice.

The London-based singer-songwriter on her scintillating new album My Method Actor.

Veteran DJ Richard Sen on counterculture and algorithms.

TANK is proud to premiere “Boys”, the video for the infectious new single by TAAHLIAH. “Since its conception, I knew it was going to be the introduction into this new world I’ve been creating over the past couple of years,” she said of the track. “It is the song everyone wants an ID on, it is the song everyone wants to know about.” Read our interview with TAAHLIAH here.

Directed by Tom Joyes
Edited by Tom Joyes
Assisted by Lynn Berlin
Makeup by MV Brown

The Almaty-based DJ and ZHUV founder on bringing the electronic underground to Kazakhstan.

The Bristol-based innovator discusses worldbuilding and the problem with cybernetics.

Musician and poet James Massiah speaks on nihilism, love and loss.

Boudica founder Samantha Togni on shaping space within London's dance underground.

Fronted by Shane Lavers, the New York-based outfit discuss alienation, biography and ways of seeing. 

The pop syncretist on canicide and early synthesisers.

The Mount Kimbie-member on the capitalist economics of DJ culture.