After less than two hours of arriving into Moscow proper, I had already met a designer I got quite excited about. I was introduced to Jenia Kim, designer of J. Kim, a fairly new Moscow-based label that is proposing clothes steeped in traditional Korean attire and tradition – not as odd a proposition as it would initially… Continue reading Koryo-Saram
Category: History
Moscow Moment
>> Yesterday when I landed into Moscow, I had a minor (ok, major) scare where I was sitting in customs in the airport wondering whether I’d be allowed into the country because I thought I had lost my passport. So far, so very dramatic and Russian. Fast forward more than 24 hours and I’m in… Continue reading Moscow Moment
The Art of being a Flâneur
“This stroller spots the novel in the humdrum, the unseen in the deja vu, the faraway in the local. The flâneur gathers and gleans like a bee among flowers.” Pierre Alexis Dumas in the introduction to the latest S/S 15 issue of the in-house magazine Le Monde D’Hermès Flâneur. It’s a French word that has… Continue reading The Art of being a Flâneur
Impossible Dreams
The morning immediately after I had got back from a gruelling fashion month, I went to the press preview of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, at the V&A. I was whisked straight to the heart of the exhibition, the Cabinet of Curiosities because I was filming interviews there for a little short for Art Fund. It felt like the… Continue reading Impossible Dreams