>> When I was tasked to customise the new Coach Swagger bag as part of their #WhatsYourSwagger campaign, I did have to think long and hard. I’m sadly not a person who is naturally imbued with “swagger”. In fact, I had to Urban Dictionary search the word just to clarify its meaning. Thankfully the bag’s… Continue reading Old, New, Borrowed and Blue Swagger
Category: Designers
Coaching Creatures
Furry pastel fluffiness is not what I expected when I went to see at Stuart Vevers’ second proper collection for Coach. Nor did I expect to see little cartoon critters popping up all over the place, thanks to an all-encompassing collaboration with LA cult artist Gary Baseman. As girls clomped past in metallic clogs backgrounded by… Continue reading Coaching Creatures
Are you okay?
“Are you okay?” That’s not a question that’s not likely to appear on a garment, much less encased in resin-moulded buttons. In a twee-filled, jolly-ridden, ultra-polite Selvedge Fair, held at Bath’s American Museum, these buttons stood out. In fact, Minus Sun’s entire stall stood out. Then coincidences of coincidences, turns out designer Yuka Maeda worked… Continue reading Are you okay?
All Rise Aries
Click on Aries Fashion.com and you’ll find yourself in web 1.0 with an array of erm… ‘funky’ fashions. Click on AriesArise.com and you’re not quite sure whether you’ve happed on to a fashion label site or not as you’re met with an assemblage of Google Images randomness. Those in the know – and that number… Continue reading All Rise Aries