Pollini may not be a shoe label with a widely known history or heritage but it does have one and atemporary exhibit entitled "Unpacking 60 Years of Pollini", which was feted today exploited all possible elements that would reveal this shoe and leather goods company's background. What made it particularly interesting was to have the… Continue reading Unpacking Pollini
Category: History
Sketched and Rooted
Last night saw the opening of an exhibition at the Poldo Pezzoli Museum in Milan, showcasing the sketches of the futurist artist Thayaht (born Ernest Michahelles), created for Madeleine Vionnet in the early 1920s. It's a compact exhibition put on by maison Vionnet in collaboration with W Magazine, of sixty drawings alongisde a video projection… Continue reading Sketched and Rooted
Kissed by a Rose
A Thom Browne presentation during the middle of New York Fashion Week has always been like the equivalent of smelling salts – something to refresh and revive the senses and prevent me from drowning in what can seem like a sea of perfectly nice, perfectly wearable and bon chic, bon genre clothes. What NYFW is… Continue reading Kissed by a Rose
Shot with Gold
"Loulou had told friends she wanted to look like a summer's night sky in Marrakech. She was ravishing, like a figure from an Indian miniature, wrapped in an acre of midnight-blue chiffon shot with gold, bangles up and down her arms, teetering in a pair of high silver heels. She had a large glittering crescent… Continue reading Shot with Gold