I know it sounds a little like lazy fashion journalism to throw around the phrase "it's so wrong, it's right", as if everything that had an inkling of bad taste could be excused with those words. Depending on the person, one could argue that something that seems "wrong" to most, is really just that –… Continue reading Limits Tested
Lo Fi Feminine
It's a complete accident that as I'm in Hong Kong and Beijing this week, that Fashion East should announce their S/S 13 line-up which includes two newcomers, one of which – Ryan Lo, is *I think* one of the first designers from Hong Kong to be included in a Fashion East show. When I say… Continue reading Lo Fi Feminine
“Asian is so hot right now”
When Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler summed up their A/W 12-3 collection by saying "It's Asian but in a New York way", I had visions of girls running around downtown (or indeed uptown at Proenza Schouler's impending new store on Madison Avenue) scrabbling around and figuring out ways how to "do" an Asian look. I'm… Continue reading “Asian is so hot right now”
A Whiff of Spring
It will soon be that almighty confusing time when I'll be straddling seasons – gushing and gawping at spring summer 2013, wearing autumn winter 2012-3, re-wearing spring summer 2012 and then chucking in some really old seasons in just for good measure. And that's taking the physical weather out of the equation. For instance I… Continue reading A Whiff of Spring