>> Way back when I would have the time to kill a whole day watching obscure screenings and popping into galleries not for ‘content’ but for the eyes, I happed across the work of artist, animator and all around creative polymath Suzan Pitt – namely her most famous work, ‘Asparagus’, which was made in 1979. It’s twenty… Continue reading Dream Strokes
Category: Art
Uncovering Undercover
There’s a lot of unspoken love on my part when it comes to Jun Takahashi’s label Undercover. Maybe it’s that Takahashi has been so consistent in his output of subversive surprise, genre-mashing collections and fantasy spinning in the twenty five years since he started his label whilst he was still at school, that it almost… Continue reading Uncovering Undercover
Invisible Colours
One of my favourite stores to browse slash research for young Japanese labels is Wall in Harajuku’s La Foret (part of the H.P. France boutique group in Japan), not least because it’s right by the entrance on the ground floor and because the staff are always so brilliantly dressed. On this last trip, the thing… Continue reading Invisible Colours
Fabric of India: Block Printing
One of the most popular Instagram posts I ever posted was a video of an artisan pressing a wooden block mould down on fabric to create a repeat print of a floral motif. A slow press of the wooden block mould in one hand and then a swift slap down of the other to properly… Continue reading Fabric of India: Block Printing