I first learnt the term fashion “cabbage” from that tell-all guilty pleasure read ‘Fashion Babylon’ by Imogen Edward-Jones. She described “cabbage” as rejected goods from a manufacturer. They’re also more commonly known as seconds. Anything made in excess or with any vague defects might be classified as seconds. What happens to those seconds is a bit of… Continue reading Let Them Save Knits
Category: London
Versus Calling
Ah London. How I’ve missed trampling up damp smelling staircases to get to concrete bunker rooms where I get sploshed about with beer. It’s back down to earth after my far-and-away otherworldly jaunts to Palm Springs and Cannes but with Donatella Versace leading the proceedings, it was never really going to be yer’ average event. Last… Continue reading Versus Calling
Bubbling Up with Dior
There were one hundred and one puns that I could have come up with for the title of the post to deal with the fact that Dior showed their latest collection in a placed called Palais Bulles – aka Bubble Palace. Erm. Bubble Palace?! You’ll be pleased to know that my body did not in fact explode… Continue reading Bubbling Up with Dior
Grappling with the True Cost
There’s a hypocrisy in my wardrobe and in the very nature of what I do for a living that is sometimes difficult to reconcile, when wanting to contribute to Fashion Revolution Day, the ongoing movement that commemorates what happened at Rana Plaza two years ago. On the one hand, I imagine a utopia where every… Continue reading Grappling with the True Cost