New is the operative word when looking at the latest incarnation of Selfridges’ ongoing Bright Young Things project. Last year, the word ‘Young’ was replaced by ‘Old’ to celebrate an older generation of maverick creatives. This year, we’re making way for the ‘new’ – because Selfridges aren’t merely celebrating burgeoning fashion talent that is ‘young’… Continue reading Bright New Things
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Dangerous Women
>> Did everyone get good hefty tomes for Christmas? I hope so. When I was doing the last bits of convenient Amazon gift shopping, I put a few cheeky additions for myself into the basket. One of them was Dangerous Women, a collation of found imagery, gathered by Peter J. Cohen, a New York-based investment… Continue reading Dangerous Women
Neo Obi
Before I had scouted out the pastel My Little Pony-tinged furisode kimono in Kyoto for my Halloween outfit last year, my original idea was to go down a sort of cyber geisha route, reason being that I had typed it a few months earlier when I wrote about the Maison Margiela S/S 16 show. It was… Continue reading Neo Obi
Blue Sky Thinking
1. (idiomatic) Thinking that is not grounded or in touch in the realities of the present. 2. (idiomatic) Open-minded thinking. I’ve interpreted Blue Sky Thinking quite literally as thinking under blankets of clear blue skies because that’s exactly what I’ve been fortunate enough to look at for the past fortnight in both Phuket in Thailand and the… Continue reading Blue Sky Thinking