It was a little saddening to read the reviews to Mary Katrantzou's S/S 14 shoe shoes shoes collection. It didn't seem so long ago that I had asked the young graduate from Central Saint Martins to borrow one of her dresses from her MA collection to wear around Paris because I was so fixated by… Continue reading If the shoe fits…
Author: susie
Too Good
So much of what S/S 14 offered was about surface. Nothing wrong with that of course. There were some GREAT surfaces – printed, sequinned, feathered, texturised – a fetishisation of decoration almost. Towards the end of Paris Fashion Week, when our heads were filled with showgirls, tribal ferociousness and paintbrush strokes of art colliding with… Continue reading Too Good
Tilted
>> I bet there were PR chicks all over the world scratching their heads over what to do with Versus' latest campaign. One click on the Versus website, which houses their collections as non-seasonal "happenings" and on to the M.I.A. capsule collection page, you find an ever-shifting grid of GIFS created by Jaime Martinez, plonked… Continue reading Tilted
Dear My Friend
It's that time of year again for H&M designer collab hardcore shoppers to get their mittens out, be ready to be on the receiving end of free coffee and queue nicely in mid November when Isabel Marant's more-Marant-than-Marant-ish collaboration with H&M comes out. If online reaction to the leaked-sorta-leaked images last week were anything to… Continue reading Dear My Friend