>> Martin Fucking Parr. That’s exactly how I was intoning Parr’s name as I bounded up the stairs to the car park at the back of Selfridges, where Henry Holland presented his debut collection entitled “Season 001” an ode to this brilliant photographer. Say what you want about Holland’s credentials as a finger quotation mark “serious”… Continue reading Parr for Course
Category: Art
Alternative Resort
Seoul, Palm Springs, Cannes, New York… Cambridge. For those that have done every single one of the resort shows in May, they will have come away with a smorgasbord of visuals and tripped-out venues. Those first four locations were commandeered by the major houses but last night, a very small group of journalists found ourselves… Continue reading Alternative Resort
Female Matters
>> I wasn’t able to attend but at round about the same time as the celebration of ‘Female Matters’, a group exhibition exploring sexual liberation co-curated by designer Clio Peppiatt and Ione Gamble of Polyester zine, I was at the Brooklyn Museum, looking at a watershed in feminist-fuelled art, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. I hadn’t seen it before… Continue reading Female Matters
Dreamers Unite
Every aspect of the run-up to Thursday’s Gucci’s cruise show in New York was worth overanalysing, in lieu of this being the first proper collection where new creative director Alessandro Michele has had ample time to fully form his ideas. There was the typewriter font on the invite (apparently Michele wanted a specific type of… Continue reading Dreamers Unite