Last night saw the opening of an exhibition at the Poldo Pezzoli Museum in Milan, showcasing the sketches of the futurist artist Thayaht (born Ernest Michahelles), created for Madeleine Vionnet in the early 1920s. It's a compact exhibition put on by maison Vionnet in collaboration with W Magazine, of sixty drawings alongisde a video projection… Continue reading Sketched and Rooted
Category: Film
This is a Digital Watch
>> After my journey of rediscovering the work of Antoni & Alison, I swiftly returned to their Ye Olde Worlde Super Modern tea room in their Clerkenwell store to have a chat, copious amounts of tea and another Super Modern biccie with Antoni Burakowski (Alison Roberts couldn't make it). This time round, we were discussing their… Continue reading This is a Digital Watch
Kissed by a Rose
A Thom Browne presentation during the middle of New York Fashion Week has always been like the equivalent of smelling salts – something to refresh and revive the senses and prevent me from drowning in what can seem like a sea of perfectly nice, perfectly wearable and bon chic, bon genre clothes. What NYFW is… Continue reading Kissed by a Rose
The Story Begins
>> There's been a bit of a quiet campaign in progress for the launch of H&M's new brand & Other Stories. We've not been inundated with lookbook imagery and the exact aesthetic of & Other Stories has been shrouded in mystery with the imagery and video being drip fed slowly but surely. The official blurb… Continue reading The Story Begins