Hey Presto Preso!

In New York you often have to skip through presentations in two minute slots, especially in the Milk Studios set up where you have multiple rooms to get through in oh, 10 minutes.  It feels rude to flit through designers work in this quickfire manner but that’s also a result of the convenience of a presentation. … Continue reading Hey Presto Preso!

100% Engaged

Nearly five days and three separate half hour conversations with different editors later and I’m still sort of pondering the Opening Ceremony one act play, 100% Lost Cott, which took place last Sunday evening in a brilliantly conceived reverse set in the Metropolitan Opera House.  The play, directed by Spike Jonze and co-written with Jonah… Continue reading 100% Engaged

Welcome to the Garden Party

For all the NYFW talk about performance as an alternative to the traditional fashion show (Gareth Pugh, Opening Ceremony’s play – I’m still thinking it out before I post, and best of all, Olivier Saillard’s Models Never Talk performance piece), we forget that Thom Browne is a dab hand at creating mesmerising mise-en-scenes, where you… Continue reading Welcome to the Garden Party