Bouchra Jarrar had me at her beautiful floral silk and knit sweaters when I went to go see her new ready to wear collection yesterday. Well in actual fact, this new ready to wear offering is really a simpler diffusion of her higher end ready to wear line which was presented during the S/S12 haute… Continue reading Drawing Lines
Inviting
I love me a novelty invite and Paris seems to get the best of em' especially when one comes in its own designated A4 sized box and a carrier bag. Obviously the point of this Loewe paper Amazona bag isn't to bring it physically with you (there's an accompanying smaller hard invite) but it is… Continue reading Inviting
Turning Japanese
>> On a day that began with abstracted Japanese kimono silks grace Dries Van Noten's A/W 12-3 collection and ended with seductive Samurai ninjas at Mugler, my vintage kimono from Merchant Archive felt like an appropriate rag to be gallivanting around Paris in. Even if it did get the tourists and children pointing. I do… Continue reading Turning Japanese
Darcel Forever
>> If you had to choose 150 tip top luminaries in fashion, art, music and photography the list wouldn't and shouldn't really include me. Yet here I am, along with Phil Oh of Street Peeper, on the walls of colette as Darcel takes over with 150 portraits to celebrate colette's 15th anniversary, all Darcelised, as… Continue reading Darcel Forever