Bicester Catch Up

>> I couldn't make it to the launch of the new British Designers Collective at Bicester Village last week so I went on a spare Sunday to do right by my inner journalistic purpose and cover what is in fact a great initiative in the scheme of discount fashion shopping.  It's got NOTHING to do… Continue reading Bicester Catch Up

Darcel Forever

>> If you had to choose 150 tip top luminaries in fashion, art, music and photography the list wouldn't and shouldn't really include me.  Yet here I am, along with Phil Oh of Street Peeper, on the walls of colette as Darcel takes over with 150 portraits to celebrate colette's 15th anniversary, all Darcelised, as… Continue reading Darcel Forever

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Open House

Nicola Formichetti is probably one of the most pro-internet people I know in fashion.  He was one of the first editors that I knew of to get his own blogspot blog, eschewing a cold portfolio site and instead, uploading all his shoots and unpublished extras straight away.  Then he got stuck into Twitter and now… Continue reading Open House

Au Revoir

As beautiful as the seven bouquets arranged in perspex cases were (they're the handiwork of Antwerp-based florist Marc Calle apparently), they felt needlessly funereal at Raf Simons' finale show for Jil Sander today.  I suppose they could be celebratory as well, with each bouquet representing a year of Simons' tenure at Jil Sander.  The final… Continue reading Au Revoir