>> The Pitti Uomo tradeshow in Florence is a vast maze that I've learnt to navigate over the past few seasons. I know to avoid the area where some skiwear/surfwear brand is blaring out awful house music. I know to head to the Tuscan delight of a press restaurant before the 1pm colossal queue. I… Continue reading Pleased To Meet You Shoes
Aspen Antics
I've long abandoned my previously uneducated stance on resort and pre-fall collections, when I used to dismiss them as "filler" pieces that would barely register as a permeating memory on the brain as you flicked through the uniform lookbooks on Style.com. There's the widely known acknowledgement that those collections of course are in stores for… Continue reading Aspen Antics
Kitsuné on the Sly
I'm not entirely sure whether Kitsun√© needs an introduction here. A summarising blurb about this Paris-based record label seems superfluous. If you don't know the clothing, I'm pretty damn sure you'll know the music. Or heard it muffled somewhere in the memory of a night out. My own Kitsun√© memories are less hazy. I think… Continue reading Kitsun√© on the Sly
Mile High Market
My trip to Florence for Pitti Immagine really was on the Itty side this season. The fret over London Collections Menswear overlapping with Pitti Uomo/W' turned out to be an timetable managed non-entity. The good folks at Pitti managed to ram five shows into the course of one day plus an afterparty or two. The… Continue reading Mile High Market