It's a bit of a toughie to follow a post with THAT stupendous jacket but thankfully a fashion student from Chicago called Danny was here to save the day from becoming a roomful of tumbleweed in Style Bubble HQ. He tipped me off about Chicago-based duo Creatures of the Wind. Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters… Continue reading Feeling the Wind
Category: Designers
Luxury and Rarity Combined
I found it incredibly difficult to start this post given that I've long admired the subject of the post for so long and self consciously, I'm thinking about the most perfect way of presenting her and her work to do it proper justice. Well for a start I've failed miserably on the image front given… Continue reading Luxury and Rarity Combined
Check that Out
Going to Amsterdam provided me the perfect opportunity to go and stalk Jan Taminiau, one of the earliest Dutch designers that I had heard about other than the obvious names. I like that he says he is resolutely Dutch whilst still being able to present his couture collections in Paris. So the HTNK agency in… Continue reading Check that Out
The Woman with the Wooden Leg
Did any other silly child like myself NOT get the joke in Mary Poppins where Mr. Dawes laughs himself to death over a joke about a wooden leg. Or maybe I got it but didn't quite understand why a man had killed himself over it. Or Joey in Friends who threw a woman's wooden leg… Continue reading The Woman with the Wooden Leg