Extra Narrative

When I chatted to the Proenza Schouler boys last season after the A/W 10-11 show, they said that they just designed what they're into, what they know, as opposed to over thinking and baking out an idea.  Then they hit me with a film collaboration with director Harmony Korine and suddenly an extra narrative is… Continue reading Extra Narrative

Shalako Antics

>> It took a pair of eyelet shorts to get me into the broderie Anglaise mood that now makes me go "Ahhh…I geddit…" at Joseph Altuzarra's S/S 10 collection that is ridden with the stuff.  It also took some sun to realise how GOOD the material looks when light is dancing around the eyelets, sometimes… Continue reading Shalako Antics

Good Day Handsome Beings

Handsome is such an underused word.  For both men and women.  Replaced with 'hot', 'fit' and 'sexaaaaaaaaay', it's been banished to the word realms where 'delightful' and 'amusing' are also sitting.  Me?  I'm a fuddy duddy who loves saying things like "That is too delightful!' and 'That is a HANDSOME piece of furniture'.  So we… Continue reading Good Day Handsome Beings