With most fashion exhibitions that I’ve been to, I normally have a modicum of knowledge of what I’m about to see. In some cases, I’m anticipating the examples of work of a certain designer be it Jean Paul Gaultier, Prada or Paul Poiret of what I’m going to see. That wasn’t the case with Charles… Continue reading Sculptor of Cloth
Category: History
Inspired
“What’s your inspiration this season?” – it’s the stock question of all fashion journalists, who want a pithy quote backstage after a fashion show. I even say it in my head with a faux-Valley Girl accent because it has been reduced to such levels of dull banality. I’m scratching out that thought though. As Dries… Continue reading Inspired
Grecian Escape
>> No, I haven’t done a runner and gone off to a Greek island to boycott fashion week. I am already in New York (please stop asking me how I’m handling the snow – more than familiar with concept) but just before I left, right by the beautiful Mouki bolthole of a store, in the… Continue reading Grecian Escape
Wearing Maripol
>> My love of Maripol is part and parcel of my vague obsession with that late ’70s- 80s era of downtown New York burst of underground creativity from Antonio Lopez to Jean-Michel Basquiat. Through her Polaroids, she documented a scene that easily seduces the likes of me, who want to live vicariously through those hedonistic… Continue reading Wearing Maripol