It's understandable if you've come on to the blog in recent weeks and just been plain CONFUUUUUSED. The names of designers that I saw at Tokyo Fashion Week aren't exactly household or internationally renowned (yet). If any of you saw the excellent 'Future Beauty' exhibition at the Barbican you might have been wondering what was… Continue reading Feel and Think
Category: History
Shoe Sum
>> I fully credit this post to the only type of maths that my non-numerical brain can handle and that is Fashematics but having seen these knock about in Manchester's Gallery of Costume this weekend, it had to be done… Alexander McQueen's kid leather western mules that are cited as being ca. 2005-7 and having… Continue reading Shoe Sum
Chanel x Harrods = DooCoco
Doo-Coco. That's the Chanelified version of doolally by the way, which is certainly what popped into my head after I had done a whirlwind tour of Chanel's extravagant takeover of Harrods in Knightsbridge. It's kind of contradicting that the language that peppers Chanel's official press releases regarding their pop-up tenure at Harrods is quite restrained… Continue reading Chanel x Harrods = DooCoco
Chin Up
>> Disneyrollergirl has already made the unsurprising connection between 90s Helmut Lang collections and A/W 11-12. From the comparison between the high white polonecks that pepper Celine's A/W 11-12 and the ones seen in Helmut Lang's A/W 98 collection, I then found myself on a much MUCH older tangent… Photos from Celine and Vogue.com Celine's… Continue reading Chin Up