>> My blogging game has gone a bit haywire of late due to personal reasons (sadly no Style Bubble bot has emerged to spout off in my place) and will imminently resume normal service. One cheeky Bank Holiday weekend beforehand though is drawing this fallow period out. I’ll be venturing up to Lake District for… Continue reading All Puffed Up
Category: Designers
Wood Working
You could already hear the green/eco/sustainable hardcore semanticists baying for blood when Karl Lagerfeld uttered the words “a high fashion ecology” and made statements such as “sustainability is part of our expression of the times”. Back off you green washing evil high fashion corporation! You can’t hood wink us into thinking that Chanel’s haute couture S/S 16… Continue reading Wood Working
Underneath it All
Two things in the past fortnight have given me reason to peel back the layers and shed light on what goes on underneath. Body Studio, an all-encompassing space dedicated to women’s lingerie, lounge, sleepwear, swimwear, hosiery and sportswear, opened up at Selfridges. It’s their biggest department to date and to me felt like a celebration of the… Continue reading Underneath it All
Varsity Hues
It was almost inevitable that after the hulking shearlings and the badged-up bikers from seasons before that Stuart Vevers would take on the mighty varsity for Coach’s A/W 16 collection, shown in New York in February. There could have been a danger of dipping into varsity fatigue. Re-shaped, recoloured and personalised – it’s been through most… Continue reading Varsity Hues