A few days ago I was reminiscing how eight or seven years ago, I was meekly emailing Mandi Lennard to ask to and see a Roksanda Ilincic show, whose ruffles, volumes and draping back then was more freeform and raw in comparison to today’s sleek colour-blocked silhouettes. That “Look, how far they’ve come…” feeling was further exacerbated… Continue reading Reshift
There goes another day
>> I now know that there are several depths to writer’s block. There’s normal writer’s block when I’m faffing around with an article for a publication. Ok, it’s pretty tiresome when you’re going through the motions but I know that an article will emerge at the end of it. Then there’s writer’s block when you’re writing… Continue reading There goes another day
Back Catalogue
>> Short term memory is a bit of epidemic in fashion. Labels coming and going all the time, the mounting heap of collections and the basic cycle of things going in and out. There’s a chasm of difference between the time when I first started going to London Fashion Week back in 2006 and what… Continue reading Back Catalogue
Grass is Greener
>> I generally dislike the designated style magazine list constructs of Hot/Not, In/Out and Steal/Splurge. The first two for the obvious reasons that they’re arbitrary page fillers that are designed to make whatever you have in possession in the Not or Out categories deemed inadequate or uncool. The last because inevitably the Steal option is… Continue reading Grass is Greener