Disrupt fashion week. That was the task at hand. Or at least that was the remit from Lexus’ perspective when they gave Gareth Pugh a giant carte blanche to present an immersive experience to really kick off New York Fashion Week. What we got was a wildly different Gareth Pugh show than we had ever… Continue reading Disrupting NYFW
Category: Art
Never Enough
>> I’m not one for cheer leading digital hoo-ha that has been created purely for the sake of saying “Oh look, we so modern! We are DIGITAL” (whatever being “digital” means…). So present me with a the concept of a digital magazine cover and there might be some eye-rolling. But as it turns out, AnOther’s… Continue reading Never Enough
Image Makers
Whilst I’ve largely been in Tokyo and Hong Kong purely as a tourist with my rambunctious and demanding family (there’s been more than a few cultural faux pas in Japan and cringe attacks), my sisters and I did manage to escape to go and see the excellent Image Makers exhibition at 21_21 Design Sight Museum.… Continue reading Image Makers
A Thread and a Will
When I wrote about Copenhagen-based designer Wali Mohammed Barrech’s latest SS15 collection shown under terse and rousing circumstances, I wrote about the diminishing strand of fashion that seeks to comment, provoke and perhaps even disturb. That conversation has shifted to editorials (often crossing the boundary from contemplative to crass) and at present only a handful of designers at the top of their… Continue reading A Thread and a Will