“I have another way. I want to create clothes for normal people with fantasies. I don’t create things for IT girls. It is my way.” It was challenging to visit Lesia Paramonova‘s showroom and try to speak to her about her trajectory, given the language barrier between us but the few precious sentences told me everything… Continue reading Love for LES’
Category: Designers
Koryo-Saram
After less than two hours of arriving into Moscow proper, I had already met a designer I got quite excited about. I was introduced to Jenia Kim, designer of J. Kim, a fairly new Moscow-based label that is proposing clothes steeped in traditional Korean attire and tradition – not as odd a proposition as it would initially… Continue reading Koryo-Saram
Moscow Snapshot
I didn’t plan on writing anything about my trip to Moscow given that it was so brief I really thought I was going to literally go in, do my talks (one public one at the department store Tsvetnoy and one as part of Conde Nast Russia’s Digital Day) and then fly back without seeing much… Continue reading Moscow Snapshot
Patchwork No Brainer
>> This has got to be the biggest super no brainer of collaborations I’ve done in recent times. Liberty London? Check. Art Nouveau design turned into one of Liberty’s most iconic prints? Check. The brightest of colours deliberately pitted against one another? Check. And bag shapes that are either a) roomy and functional enough to… Continue reading Patchwork No Brainer