My trick of giving gifts to the boyf that also double up as wearable for myself might take a step too far when I’m in danger of picking things that the boyf wouldn’t wear at all and in fact, it’s an evil selfish ploy of mine to shrug my shoulders and say ‘Oh well! You… Continue reading A gift to me, to you…
Category: Designers
Why I leave it to the pros…
A year ago when I was dabbling around with wrapping plastic cellophane around a skirt in that naive unskilled fat-fingered lemon way of mine, CSM MA student Hampus Bernhoff was in the late development stages of his MA collection that combined plastic sheeting and classic tailoring. A sensible reason why I should leave things to… Continue reading Why I leave it to the pros…
Turn it Insiders Out
I don’t give New Zealand enough lovin’ and for that I apologise so as it is a rare occasion (I will try and make it less of a rarity…) I’ll go for a NZ oldie…. I’m sure all Kiwians know a fair bit about Nom*D. They did make it over to LFW in 1999 and… Continue reading Turn it Insiders Out
Cut Hair some Slack
Hair as a material on this blog has never gotten a good reaction…."Ewww…that creeps me out!!!!!!" is the usual one and rightly so as it’s the provenance of the hair that gets to people….where does it come from and what the bloody hell is it doing on a garment? I’m 100% sure now there is… Continue reading Cut Hair some Slack