When I wrote about Copenhagen-based designer Wali Mohammed Barrech’s latest SS15 collection shown under terse and rousing circumstances, I wrote about the diminishing strand of fashion that seeks to comment, provoke and perhaps even disturb. That conversation has shifted to editorials (often crossing the boundary from contemplative to crass) and at present only a handful of designers at the top of their… Continue reading A Thread and a Will
Category: Designers
Spiritual High
“Material Girl Mystical World” is the tagline of The Numinous, a website started by Sunday Times Style contributor Ruby Warrington, who believes that, despite living in a material world, we can combine new age (or “now age” as Warrington asserts) thinking and post-modern spirituality and still enjoy the aesthetic pleasures of fashion. Or to sum… Continue reading Spiritual High
Le Kilt
>> Le Kilt was a nightclub in the early 80s on Greek Street in Soho London frequented by the ex-Blitz kids crowd and as the name suggests, clad with plaid on the interior. Le Kilt in 2014 is a new label designed by Samantha McCoach, who has laid claim to this most famed of Scottish… Continue reading Le Kilt
Coming to Fruition
Sammy and Val fusing all of the elements that have make Fruition, the store an interesting concept Fruition. I’m pretty sure that’s one of my top ten most overused words in speech and in writing. It is after all an uplifting word that neatly sums up the process of design, development and final product and in on… Continue reading Coming to Fruition