Hadley Freeman’s overly tongue-in-cheek articles in Guardian which seem to discourage people from ‘having fun’ with fashion used to grate me quite a bit but her writing for 10 magazine for which she is a regular contributor brings me joy everytime I buy an issue and as I cosy up on my bed to take… Continue reading Are you a Fashion Victim?!
Month: November 2007
Delicate Winner
It’s fashion competition time and whilst we await the results of Swiss Textile Awards with Gareth Pugh, Marios Schwab, Ann Sofie Back, Ute Ploier, Bless and Felipe Oliveira Baptista battling it out tonight for 100,000 Euros, the biggest fashion competition launched by Mango has its first winner. The finalists were Txell Miras (Spain), Clara Leskovar… Continue reading Delicate Winner
The Dangerous Discount
It’s not particularly chic or graceful but I’m a discount voucher hoarder. If there’s a voucher out and about in magazines, it’s gonna be cut out, kept in the wallet and then the buy-by date will come and go and it will still be crumpled up in my wallet. I can’t keep track of how… Continue reading The Dangerous Discount
On guard!
Fencing as an inspiration? Having been scarred permanently by that horrific Madonna James Bond theme video, I didn’t give fencing too much thought. But then I sneaked a peek at Gilles Rosier’s AW07-8 collection and he has taken the haughty elegance of the sport and and produced stunning effects. Since he left Kenzo to conentrate… Continue reading On guard!