There hasn't been a new-new name knocking around the blog for a while now and so it's time to rectify that with a look at the Korean-born, London-based Rejina Pyo, whose exhibition "Structural Mode" at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen grabbed me instantly. Her MA collection of ceremonial colour-blocked gowns and wooden totem sculptures that… Continue reading Sculpted
Go Lavish or Go Home
Maybe it's all this talk of gemstones, beads and luxury that I'm hearing at the IHT LINK Jewellery Summit, here in Vienna, where I'm at right now (I was here to give my bum of a talk about social media to a crowd of 300+ blank faces – yay me!). Maybe it's all the opulence of Palais… Continue reading Go Lavish or Go Home
Heroic
>> Key, statement or show piece – that's the sort of language that peppers fash-journo speak when it comes to describing that one item of clothing which is decreed more special than the others because of its visual appeal. You can add "hero piece" to that pile of jargon. I've annoyingly taken to calling this… Continue reading Heroic
Bondi Knit Wit
Whenever i think of Bondi in Sydney, I don't necessarily think of its current incarnation of upmarket shops, chi-chi restaurants and babes and dudes galore. I think of a place, which Australian design legend Jenny Kee describes in her autobiography A Big Life, where people felt a spiritual connection to the place because of its… Continue reading Bondi Knit Wit