seek & find

Companion Magazine ed. 21

a to z of street style

These days, photographers are just as likely to snap people attending fashion shows as they are to shoot the models on the runway. As the pack travel from city to city, the outfits have been thought out and are always camera ready. We meet the models, influencers, photographers, editors and brands who are changing the street-style game and taking up our Insta feeds.

art for the masses

Companion looks at three very different street artists and finds out what inspires them to transform a blank public space into something meaningful

get your barter on

From vintage clothes to antique homeware and retro toys, Lille’s legendary once-a-year flea market is a huge event with a stellar stall line-up

sofia’s street life — florence

Sofia Bonacchi of Street Levels Gallery leads us through her favourite Florentine spots, from the cozy book-bar Todo Modo and Novecento Museum to Cascine Park, S. Forno bakery, La Compagnia cinema and vintage finds at Melrose.

the power of water

In the heart of Hamburg’s St. Pauli district is the Millerntor Stadium, home to the St. Pauli football club. Come summertime when the team is resting, art takes over the stadium. And furthermore, art with a serious purpose and a huge sense of fun!

stay for a stay

25hours Hotels' sister brand, The Hoxton is on a mission to support those in need this winter.

pounding the city

Nick Savage takes the philosophical approach to running through our urban landscapes

from street to plate

Jane Anderson chats to Nuriel Molcho about his family’s thriving restaurant business NENI and its kaleidoscopic Israeli street food

roll up roll up!

Street vans are part of the new nomadic culture, and Dubai is the one of the latest cities to jump on the bandwagon. Rick Jordan investigates

the vinyl piece of the puzzle

Have you really been to a city if you don’t visit one of its record shops – heroically rooting a vinyl out of a wooden box, secreting it under your arm so no one else notices your find and tries to wrestle it from you, and finally sliding it over to the judgy bearded man behind the counter? These shops are so often hubs of communities, meeting places for like-minded people, and pointers as to what’s going on in a city, that not to track one down would be to miss out. Here is the definitive guide to the best record shops in 25hours cities.

sex and the city

Cities are often anything but neutral spaces and are historically laid out with men in mind. Gwen Defoe looks at innovative and exciting ways in which pioneers in their fields are redressing the urban gender imbalance

stop, look and lisbon

Matt Charlton on why Lisbon’s music scene rocks