LC:M has been and gone in a flurry of essential pieces, “wardrobes” for reality and perhaps a dose of predictability that seems vital in order for businesses to kick on. There was one big exception though. At Fashion East’s Menswear Installations, which was previously a house of cacophony where four or five designers converge to… Continue reading Unburdened
Category: London
Graduate Machine
Word on the fashion street is that it’s been tough for young designers. Or just designers period. Tell me something that I don’t already know. I’ve been chatting with designers in London about the fact that there’s something unsustainable about the way the bulk of young designers operate today, not because the market isn’t there but… Continue reading Graduate Machine
Sophie Hulme Revisited
There are certain markers that often means a bag brand has made it. Whatever ‘it’ is. When your brand gets its own thread on Purse Forum and people start rampantly posting bag detail shots and patting each’s back on their purchases. When you see more than one of said bags on an average day walking… Continue reading Sophie Hulme Revisited
Female Matters
>> I wasn’t able to attend but at round about the same time as the celebration of ‘Female Matters’, a group exhibition exploring sexual liberation co-curated by designer Clio Peppiatt and Ione Gamble of Polyester zine, I was at the Brooklyn Museum, looking at a watershed in feminist-fuelled art, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. I hadn’t seen it before… Continue reading Female Matters