A fashion trade show that is as enormous as CIFF in Copenhagen might seem like an odd place to house a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to one of Britain’s most well-known, multi-talented and culture zeitgeist informing provocateurs. As you enter Crystal Hall, Virgil Abloh is pitted next to Malcolm McLaren – past and present colliding. The… Continue reading Let it Rock: The Look of Music The Sound of Fashion
Category: History
Port Eliot Returns
From seventeen paying punters at Port Eliot’s first ever edition back in 2003, the festival has grown exponentially. You felt that growth at this year’s festival, which returned after a one year hiatus to give the grounds of Port Eliot in St Germans, Cornwall a rest. There seemed to be “more” of everything – more… Continue reading Port Eliot Returns
Past Modernity
I should have known, after his Dior cruise show in New York, Raf Simons mentioned in passing about potentially exploring the “fantastical” that he had something up his sleeve. And so we got something fantastical for Dior’s latest couture A/W 14-5 show. A white drum of a set lit up like a space launchpad a… Continue reading Past Modernity
Tickled by Feathers
It was difficult not to get a bit carried away with my weekend trip to Antwerp. This is the city where after all I had made a number of fashion-specific pilgrimages to in my late teens/twenties because of the Antwerp Six, the reputation of the Royal Academy School and the fact that it’s still a bit of… Continue reading Tickled by Feathers