I’ve not yet written about the Dior collections by interim/stop-gap/supposedly temporary leaders of the in-house design team, Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux on the blog. I have done for Dazed and my initial thoughts after their couture collection were that a house as big and prestigious as Dior felt hollow without the guidance of a visionary creative… Continue reading The Return of Dior to Blenheim
Category: Designers
The Big D
Not long after the attacks in Brussels, I found myself there to complete a jigsaw puzzle that began when I used to moon at the MOMU museum in Antwerp. Actually, the mooning still happens. I’m just less likely to go on random Eurostar jaunts to Belgium. Back in 2009, the MOMU played host to an… Continue reading The Big D
Telling Tales with La Traviata
There are some press trips that you just don’t say no to. Try as I have done to limit my travel schedule this year, opportunities that involve the following… Rome, Valentino – both the founder of the house Valentino Garavani and his successorsMaria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli (who Garavani repeatedly refers to as his “guardian angels”), the… Continue reading Telling Tales with La Traviata
The Marriage of Manus and Machina
The quiet. The minute. The hidden. The unsung. These are the surprising elements of fashion that have come together in ‘Manus X Machina Fashion in an Age of Technology’, which is perhaps the most contemplative exhibition of all the “blockbuster” openings, I’ve seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Quiet doesn’t mean it… Continue reading The Marriage of Manus and Machina