I love it when you get a straightforward lead-on from one post to another… from my retrogading at 70s-80s designer Anne Marie Beretta and her voluminous lines, I come to Christophe Lemaire's collection which both Steve and I have happed onto via a very insightful interview in the new issue of the b Store magazine. … Continue reading Maximising Reduction
Category: History
Searching for Anne Marie
>> Does anyone else spend hours on Jalou Archives (the archives of L'Officiel and Jalouse…) and does it suck away your hours as you type in terms such as Patou, Chloe par Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler and Poiret and basically go ape over the number of specific images that come up. It also partially solves… Continue reading Searching for Anne Marie
Linder Lingers
>> This is just a call out to New Yorkers to go on my spiritual behalf to check out this exhibition at the Boo Hooray pop-up gallery in Chelsea. "The Secret Public" is a retrospective exhibition of author Jon Savage and artist Linder Sterling and their collective zine, photographic montage work dated 1976-1991. The Secret… Continue reading Linder Lingers
Silent Hat Partner
I've become a rather persistent and pushy stay-at-home blogger. Instead of operating on a shooting-emails basis, I'm instead, barging into people's homes/workspaces instead. Beware designers… Susie could be invading your home soon… and not in the good Changing Rooms sort of way either. I subjected to Moody & Farrell to this space invasion last… Continue reading Silent Hat Partner