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Read, watched, loved this week.

1 | MUSTANG 2015: Best movie I’ve watched this week that has become one of my favourite movies. Great photography. A Turkish movie that got an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Movie this year. The protagonists are five orphaned sisters—Sonay, Selma, Ece, Nur, and Lale—who’s teenage life suddenly changes being raised by a retrograde, indoctrinated grandmother and a misogynistic, predatory uncle in a small Turkish village by the Black Sea. They will fight for their identity, each one in her own way.

2 | Meet the Assistants [via i-D]: “The behind-the-scenes wheels who keep the fashion world moving. ​Always ready to lend a pair of hands or give a second opinion, we meet the eyes and ears of some of the industry’s most prolific talents. Introducing the assistants of today and the future stars of tomorrow”. With stunning photography by Cristoph Wohlfahrt.

3 | A Brief History of Gingham [via Another Mag]: Shonagh Marshall explores three key historic moments celebrating gingham; from Miu Miu to Biba, Comme des Garçons to wartime fashion.

4 | London’s Livery Halls [via The Spaces]: The lavish homes of the capital’s guilds and traders. London’s Livery Halls are architectural treasures hidden among the corporate towers of the capital’s Square Mile.

5 | The Blackest Black in the World [via dezeen]: “Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor has acquired exclusive rights to the revolutionary Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black ever created.  Kapoor is currently the only person in the world who can paint using this colour, and has been doing so since 2014. Developed by British company NanoSystems, Vantablack is composed of a series of microscopic vertical tubes. When light strikes Vantablack, it becomes trapped instead of bouncing off and is continually deflected between the tubes. The pigment is currently the blackest substance known – so dark that it absorbs 99.96 per cent of light.”

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