Uncovering Undercover

There’s a lot of unspoken love on my part when it comes to Jun Takahashi’s label Undercover.  Maybe it’s that Takahashi has been so consistent in his output of subversive surprise, genre-mashing collections and fantasy spinning in the twenty five years since he started his label whilst he was still at school, that it almost… Continue reading Uncovering Undercover

Christmas Cheek

>> For the first time in (ever), I’ll be spending Christmas not with my family, not in London and not surrounded by animal fat and roast potatoes but in a land far away with my partner and most likely eating an inferior substitute to a Christmas dinner.  That’s why I’m in two minds as to… Continue reading Christmas Cheek

Prints in Motion

The Fashion in Motion series at the Victoria & Albert Museum has been picking up pace in the latter part of this year with not one but two shows in consecutive months.  It seems like designers in London are in the mood to look back on their accumulation of collections and accolades that they have… Continue reading Prints in Motion

A Collection of Us

Playing on our collective love of nostalgia, the word “archive” seems to have popped up quite a bit lately in a bid to perhaps look back in order to go forward.  Topshop launched their Archive Collection back in July and Jigsaw’s current autumn winter campaign pits nineties Jigsaw pieces with current ones, to emphasise the… Continue reading A Collection of Us