Continuing on my Iain R Webb tract, I've dug up these Bill Gibb archive images that I had been meaning to post give that Webb is personally fascinated with Gibb and wrote the book 'Bill Gibb; Fashion and Fantasy' (a succinct history of Gibb can be found here) as well as co-curating the exhibition that… Continue reading Gift of the Gibb
Category: History
Review from the Trenches
>>I came across this piece of very very early (his first actually…) writing by the fashion journalist/lecturer/writer Iain R. Webb (has just written a great book on British 60s duo Foale and Tuffin) via the site of his new concept/gallery store venture Orange Snow. It was written in 1978 for an art school project to… Continue reading Review from the Trenches
Retrogading the 90s
Everyone is getting in on the 'Let's look back on the decade' palava in addition to the usual 'end of year' round ups. 'Best of the Noughties', 'Noughties Review', 'What the first decade of the new millennium did for us' etc etc… In my head, the year 2000 only seems like yesterday and thus looking… Continue reading Retrogading the 90s
Heal Suits
I'm glad that the Dressed up for Summer videos gave some of you some much-needed fashion chuckle time but despite all of the little spoofs and skits that Mademoiselle Agn√®s gets up to, at the core of it, serious points about fashion are being raised and in that particular series, she does try to question and… Continue reading Heal Suits