This does seem to be the year to celebrate all things surreal but I think a store that isn’t actually a store takes the surreal biscuit for me. The Wrong Store is a store window on 10th Avenue, near 29th in Manhattan, New York which opened on the 19th May. Basically, it’s a 100 sq… Continue reading A Shop that isn’t a Shop
Category: Art
The Journey to Boudicca
What was I doing in a rundown part of Hackney bordering on Stratford in East London in the King’s Yard on a Saturday afternoon? Only a special sample sale could have enticed me to take the scary overland train (yes, being dictated by buses and the tube is frightening). Boudicca had their two day special… Continue reading The Journey to Boudicca
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I haven’t the inclincation to be a MySpace-er or a Facebook-er so IQONS serves my needs perfectly. I can’t harp on about IQONS enough so much so I might as well wear a sandwich board promoting it. One of the IQONS projects which I’ve been thinking about taking part in is the ‘You Wear it… Continue reading Got a minute or two?
Paper cut outs, fabric flowers… a beautiful relationship
When Su Blackwell‘s fantastically intricate paper cut pieces met Dragana Perisic‘s fabric flower dress made of discs of sheer black silk in the window of the Dragana Perisic store on Cheshire Street near Brick Lane, who knew it would be such a harmonious relationship. It is exactly what the exhibition is called: ‘The Beginning of… Continue reading Paper cut outs, fabric flowers… a beautiful relationship