>> eBay crawling is a dangerous slippery slope. eBay crawling at 3am in the morning when you’re awake with jet lag having just landed into New York leads you from looking at things that you actually wanted (search terms “Balenciaga runway”, “Junya Watanabe” and “John Galliano”) to looking at things you never knew you wanted… like… Continue reading Once Upon a Shoe
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Fabric of India: Colours
Back in February some of you mightrecall that I experienced India for the first time in my life on a brief but compelling trip courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum. The sole reason was to discover the roots, the craft and the tradition of the textiles that will feature in V&A’s upcoming exhibition The… Continue reading Fabric of India: Colours
My Feral Lady
I’ve never been quite sure how to do “lady”. By “lady”, I mean the image prescribed to me by Doris Day films, where head to toe colour schemes, a strict posture and matching hats and gloves all utilised simultaneously to instil fear in the slouchy, mismatched and messy likes of me. You wonder whether Lazaro Hernandez and Jack… Continue reading My Feral Lady
Monki-ing Around Four Years Later
>> The first time I worked with Swedish brand Monki, I got to wave around a cartoonishly large remote control and magic myself in and out of a TV screen for a series of videos. That was back in 2011 when I was still awkwardly unsure of that full time blogger thing. Four years later and I’m perhaps a touch wiser but… Continue reading Monki-ing Around Four Years Later