I'll say that my trip to Florence for the 80th edition of Pitti Immagine (complete with a spanking new website) has started off well if I came stumbling out into a wine-and-martini stupor as well as having been fed a good deal of grazing juicy meat last night. This sadly wasn't conducive for writing up… Continue reading Man, I Feel Like a Woman
On All Foursies
>> Following my overindulgence of snapping away at all the miniscule details of Finsk's new Project Number Four shoes which are quite literally shaped from a figure of four, I took it a step further and asked some poor sod in Finsk's factory in Brazil to take pics of the process of putting together this… Continue reading On All Foursies
Prom Night
Seeing as I'm on a Americana trip from my previous post and that I got reminded of certain heart shaped penny cut-out loafers, I realised that I never did post these Rachel Antonoff pictures from her A/W 11-12 'The Dance' presentation held in Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School near Lincoln Centre. I clambered up to… Continue reading Prom Night
Classics Reconsidered
The word 'preppy' didn't really enter my vocabulary until I started reading lame American 'Young Adult' fiction hidden behind school-sanctioned books in the library. For me, it's a supremely American style genre that has its own brand and garment iconography to best rep it. G.H. Bass Weejuns loafers, established in 1936, are most definitely part… Continue reading Classics Reconsidered