Push the K Button

>> After a mini spree at Opening Ceremony in Soho today, having bought two pieces from two Korean labels that have just come in as part of their "OC goes to Korea" trip, I walked around Soho on a gloriously sunny day on a "I want to move to NYC" high.  It's partly the feel-good… Continue reading Push the K Button

H&M Design Award 2012

Back in December last year, the finalists of the inaugural H&M Design Award, selected from the best fashion schools of Europe, gathered up in London and I alongside a starry starry jury, which included Hilary Alexander, Christopher Kane and H&M's creative advisor Margareta Van Den Bosch had to decide who should win a EUR50,000 prize and have their… Continue reading H&M Design Award 2012

Portable Take Two

>> It's getting to that time of year again when it might be useful to have a little Susie Bubble mascot jumping up and down on the sidebar to indicate where I am in the world.  Right now, I'm in New York, hungover from a greasy take out and overgorged on the Travel Chanel.  Next… Continue reading Portable Take Two

Laced Up

The stark contrast between Karlie Kloss opening Anthony Vaccarello's A/W 12-3 show in oodles of navy satin, a buttoned up shirt and trousers that mean business with metal fastenings glinting at you in the chiarascuro-creating lighting and Kloss closing his S/S 12 show in a gaping dress that exposed every inch of her pretty-much-perfect thigh… Continue reading Laced Up