Deep West London has always been "wild" to me. I've never lived there. I hardly ever venture there unless it's to pass through to get to Heathrow. It's not as foreign an entity as South of the river but it's not far off. It would have to take something special to get me to the… Continue reading Busts and Natural Collisions
Category: Art
High in the Hills Was A Lonely Goat Herd…
>> As soon as I read "Sound of Music inspired.." on Olympia Le-Tan's AW 13-4 review, I knew I should have eschewed review write-ups that night during Paris Fashion Week and gone along to her "Schnitzel with Noodles" presentation – always a fun respite from the formal show hub-hub of Paris. Actually, the title of… Continue reading High in the Hills Was A Lonely Goat Herd…
Punked Up Frocks
Just as the final mannequin in the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York gave us the finger, wearing Hussein Chalayan S/S 02 bare-all dress, it was sort of predictable that there'd be fingers being thrusted back up at the Met, lambasting the exhibition with comments like "WTF?", "Fashion, by definition,… Continue reading Punked Up Frocks
Hermès Silk Road
I blame the heightened sense of emotions on airplanes, but when I watched Hearts and Crafts: The People that Make Hermès, directed by Frédéric Laffont and Isabelle Dupuy-Chavanat, on an Air France flight last year, I was positively moved to tears. Ok, that was perhaps a pathetic step too far, but it was such a great short… Continue reading Hermès Silk Road