On the first day of London Fashion Week for the past two seasons, you might have seen me storming around the exhibition stands like a bedraggled bag lady, laden with a cherry hat on my head, a gaggle of necklaces around my neck and a ton of hangers. That's me picking out pieces from the… Continue reading Feeling the Gauge
Stormin’ down Kingsland Road
>> Londoners and those in the semi-know might think of Dalston/Hackney as a fashion-filled area but what we really mean is, it's where people who work in fashion live and where many designers' studios are. If a tourist with no prior knowledge of London was planted somewhere along Kingsland Road, they're more than likely to… Continue reading Stormin’ down Kingsland Road
My Sorta Denim
>> My time in New York was brief but packed because apparently fashion folk over there cram in as many events and press days into the working week, that leaves slow plodding London me panting. Or it could have been that week in particular. I dropped by J Brand and Christopher Kane's launch just to… Continue reading My Sorta Denim
DVD Trio
I didn't expect Yohji Yamamoto to utter the word "gorgeous" several times in the opening scene of the short film Yohji Yamamoto: This is My Dream that documents the run-up to the S/S 10 Y-3 show in New York, directed by Theodore Stanley. I associate the word with a brassy blonde making kiss noises with… Continue reading DVD Trio