LC:M has been and gone in a flurry of essential pieces, “wardrobes” for reality and perhaps a dose of predictability that seems vital in order for businesses to kick on. There was one big exception though. At Fashion East’s Menswear Installations, which was previously a house of cacophony where four or five designers converge to… Continue reading Unburdened
Category: Designers
Parr for Course
>> Martin Fucking Parr. That’s exactly how I was intoning Parr’s name as I bounded up the stairs to the car park at the back of Selfridges, where Henry Holland presented his debut collection entitled “Season 001” an ode to this brilliant photographer. Say what you want about Holland’s credentials as a finger quotation mark “serious”… Continue reading Parr for Course
Graduate Machine
Word on the fashion street is that it’s been tough for young designers. Or just designers period. Tell me something that I don’t already know. I’ve been chatting with designers in London about the fact that there’s something unsustainable about the way the bulk of young designers operate today, not because the market isn’t there but… Continue reading Graduate Machine
Sophie Hulme Revisited
There are certain markers that often means a bag brand has made it. Whatever ‘it’ is. When your brand gets its own thread on Purse Forum and people start rampantly posting bag detail shots and patting each’s back on their purchases. When you see more than one of said bags on an average day walking… Continue reading Sophie Hulme Revisited