Before I had scouted out the pastel My Little Pony-tinged furisode kimono in Kyoto for my Halloween outfit last year, my original idea was to go down a sort of cyber geisha route, reason being that I had typed it a few months earlier when I wrote about the Maison Margiela S/S 16 show. It was… Continue reading Neo Obi
Category: Art
Lost Paradise
>> For the first time in well over two decades, I’ve spent Christmas and New Year’s away from London.I’ve traded in turkey, cold walks and Crimbo TV (I say that, having binged on Downton and Call the Midwife using Hola) for sun, sea and food loaded up with Thai chillis. I’ve just finished up a wonderful… Continue reading Lost Paradise
Street Fighters
>> Let’s say Ryu from Street Fighter was having a chill day at home – no training, no trying to defeat his mortal enemy Akuma and no wearing of the karate gi. Then Korean label R. Shemiste’s S/S 16 collection, presented a few months ago as part of Seoul Fashion Week, would provide a suitable off-duty… Continue reading Street Fighters
Creating with Discipline
A week before the Chanel Metiers d’Art show in Rome, where thousands of hours of work was reduced to a fifteen minute whirlwind extravaganza, I visited the ateliers of Lesage and Lemarié, which since 2013 have been collectively housed in one place in Pantin, just outside of Paris. Seeing these two most well-known savoir-faire maisons… Continue reading Creating with Discipline