Back in June, when I went to New York for Coach’s summer party on the High Line, I also got to check out the archives. As it turned out, it was my first archive visit of any American brand actually. The American thing is worth hammering in. “Coach is really America’s house of leather,” said… Continue reading Coaching Class
Category: Accessories
Fun House
>> I’m showing my newly augmented age (it was my birthday yesterday) with this reference but here goes. It might seem a tad tenuous to link up Miu Miu’s current cruise collection that is in stores with bygone British children’s TV game show Fun House but… exaggerated stripes? Lashings of red and yellow? Those oversized earrings that the cheerleading… Continue reading Fun House
Colours of the Wind of Change Part 2
From the lonesome torii gate that is visible if you take that hilarious pirate ship across the Lake Ashi in Hakone to the thousands that line the sprawling network of shrines at Fushimi Inari-taisha in Kyoto, this is the red-drenched counterpart to the previous green-hued and wabi sabi inspired post. As I moved from Hakone to… Continue reading Colours of the Wind of Change Part 2
Buckle Up
“If you get the right bag, an It bag, a hit bag, your label moves into a different league.” So said the fictional British designer from that guilty-pleasure read from years back, Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones (free e-book to skim read if you want to kill a few hours). Since publication nearly ten years… Continue reading Buckle Up