Dangerous Women

>> Did everyone get good hefty tomes for Christmas?  I hope so.  When I was doing the last bits of convenient Amazon gift shopping, I put a few cheeky additions for myself into the basket.  One of them was Dangerous Women, a collation of found imagery, gathered by Peter J. Cohen, a New York-based investment… Continue reading Dangerous Women

Neo Obi

Before I had scouted out the pastel My Little Pony-tinged furisode kimono in Kyoto for my Halloween outfit last year, my original idea was to go down a sort of cyber geisha route, reason being that I had typed it a few months earlier when I wrote about the Maison Margiela S/S 16 show.  It was… Continue reading Neo Obi

Lost Paradise

Dancers in folkloric costumes, moving unpredictably to pounding chords, characterized the 1913 Rite of Spring premiere at Paris' Champs Elysées Theater

>> For the first time in well over two decades, I’ve spent Christmas and New Year’s away from London.I’ve traded in turkey, cold walks and Crimbo TV (I say that, having binged on Downton and Call the Midwife using Hola) for sun, sea and food loaded up with Thai chillis.  I’ve just finished up a wonderful… Continue reading Lost Paradise

Coaching Class

Back in June, when I went to New York for Coach’s summer party on the High Line, I also got to check out the archives.  As it turned out, it was my first archive visit of any American brand actually.  The American thing is worth hammering in.  “Coach is really America’s house of leather,” said… Continue reading Coaching Class