Illustration by Tim Enthoven for NY Times In my personal TV highlight of the year, Silicon Valley, created by Mike Judge, where just about everything is quotable and memorable for pub talk giggles, there’s a recurring dig at tech companies in the valley, who “want to make the world a better place”, with innovations such as “elegant hierarchies for… Continue reading Making the World a Better Place.
Category: History
Giles goes Georgian
>> How to be in two places at once? That is a question that I’m grappling with frequently these days as fashion’s powers that be like to throw people in far-flung places on the same day. Long time Style Bubble readers will know that I generally don’t like getting in contributors or photographers in to… Continue reading Giles goes Georgian
Some Kind of Shangri-La
Metallics. Iridescence. Sheeny shinyness. Layers. These are the components that make up the outfit equivalent of Shangri-La for me. The main facilitator? A Miu Miu jacket from the current A/W 14-5 collection, looking all delicious and tempting in-stores and online, stuffed with pastels, parkas and plastic brilliance. How did I get it? I was very honoured to be… Continue reading Some Kind of Shangri-La
Japonaiserie
The 1970s. Underwater life. Japan. Admittedly they sound like simplistic inspirations but SS15 can be distilled thus. These are tropes that have been trundled out in fashion time and time again and that they’ve cropped up this SS15 should have seen our eyes rolling at the predictability of it all. After all a few designers did go in for… Continue reading Japonaiserie