Hats and Thoughts

I'm chortling to myself at the ways bloggers are suddenly figuring into the Paris Fashion Week schedule.  We've seen the blogger breakfast/brunches pervade social media strategies of brands but never did I think I'd be popping along to one during Paris Fashion Week.  At Dior of all places.  Yesterday morning, just before Chanel, for the… Continue reading Hats and Thoughts

Outsider In

>> Google the artist Dan Michiels and you're unlikely to come up with much, save for a profile page on Creativity Explored, the website of an organisation in San Francisco that works and aids artists with developmental disabilities.  That may change though now that Comme des Garcons debuted six stunning silhouettes at the end of… Continue reading Outsider In

Held Back

>> As per the Paris Fashion Week norm, I've put on my Dazed Digital cap and been reporting rampantly for them this week.  I'm carrying three phones getting my head round about three different Twitter/Instagram/Vine accounts and basically running around Paris, giving myself mental high fives whenever I make it to every show/appointment/presentation because I've… Continue reading Held Back

Let me hear you say MA!

I seem to love confusing the hell out of streetstyle photographers when I spell out the names of what I'm wearing during fashion weeks.  They're probably annoyed at me for not wearing the easily recognisable roll call of names (Balenciaga, Givenchy, Acne etc etc) that they can take down on their notepads in simple shorthand.… Continue reading Let me hear you say MA!