>>I came across this piece of very very early (his first actually…) writing by the fashion journalist/lecturer/writer Iain R. Webb (has just written a great book on British 60s duo Foale and Tuffin) via the site of his new concept/gallery store venture Orange Snow. It was written in 1978 for an art school project to… Continue reading Review from the Trenches
Category: Books
Bordered Up
When the Borders Oxford Street branch closed and everyone went mad on posting pics of empty shelves and Closing Down signs, I wasn't fretting. There's always the Charing Cross branch, my preferred branch where the magazine section though smaller still has the same selection and is slightly more tucked away and the queue at Starbucks… Continue reading Bordered Up
Sketched and Etched
I'm writing this without the ability to actually reference the magazines physically as I've left them at work so this will test how much of a permanent impression they've left on my less-than-efficient brain. I will however have to come back and re-edit this post with names of photographers, stylists, writers and illustrators to give… Continue reading Sketched and Etched
Sketch Me
I never thought fashion blogger sketching/illustrating as a genre could be taken so far as to become a plausible aesthetic backbone of a magazine. But Sketchbook, a new mag that I think is finished, but not out yet, has chosen Fashion Bloggers as their theme to kick start their first issue and literally illustrating their… Continue reading Sketch Me