Just as the final mannequin in the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York gave us the finger, wearing Hussein Chalayan S/S 02 bare-all dress, it was sort of predictable that there'd be fingers being thrusted back up at the Met, lambasting the exhibition with comments like "WTF?", "Fashion, by definition,… Continue reading Punked Up Frocks
Category: History
Hermès Silk Road
I blame the heightened sense of emotions on airplanes, but when I watched Hearts and Crafts: The People that Make Hermès, directed by Frédéric Laffont and Isabelle Dupuy-Chavanat, on an Air France flight last year, I was positively moved to tears. Ok, that was perhaps a pathetic step too far, but it was such a great short… Continue reading Hermès Silk Road
Garden of Growth
"A passion for flowers inherited from my mother meant that I was at my happiest among plants and flower-beds. My predilection influenced even my reading and, apart from those few books which made their mark on my whole childhood, my chief delight was to learn by heart the names and descriptions of flowers in the… Continue reading Garden of Growth
Prada 101
>> Just as the focus shifts to Prada's interpretation of the roaring twenties in The Great Gatsby (have received 63 completely UNinteresting emails, with the subject line "How to get the Gatsby look!" – all in the bin now), I found this bitesize history of Prada printed in the promo material for the Prada Journal project (who's… Continue reading Prada 101