My growing collection of Molly Goddard dresses hang proudly in my spare room, taking up a good amount of space. But you want them to spread out, and you’re happy to have them engulf your room with their smocked and gathered deliciousness. For most people, one of Goddard’s dresses would do them just nicely. They might wear… Continue reading Dream Yardage
Category: Designers
Clearing up the Fog
This week in New York, I’ve been thinking about identities of designers and brands. Whose identities are most pronounced? Who has lost theirs? Who is severely in need in one as they bounce from one thing to the other without consistency? Sadly I feel there are a clutch of designers in New York, who answer in the… Continue reading Clearing up the Fog
Pink Power
When a magazine came round to shoot the house last week, I sprung into visual merchandising mode, ensuring my multiple stacks of stuff had some semblance of colour and textural order. There’s no way of minimising the amount of fashion paraphernalia that I have accumulated over the years. Perhaps I’m clutching on to it all,… Continue reading Pink Power
Carnival Colours
>> As part of United Colors of Benetton’s bid to re-affirm its roots, they’ve just launched the third drop of their Collection of Us, themed around the Carnival. It’s an abstracted take on this Venetian tradition though, as an array of colours are united (to state the obvious) in a collection of premium intarsia knitwear pieces. In… Continue reading Carnival Colours