Rolwinged

>> "Hi I drew you!  Please blog about me!" unfortunately peppers quite a few emails in my inbox.  Poor them.  They absolutely took no joy in knocking out their illustration of me because their sole purpose was to flatter my shallow vanity, stroke my ego and thus get a blog post about their work out… Continue reading Rolwinged

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Too Good

So much of what S/S 14 offered was about surface.  Nothing wrong with that of course.  There were some GREAT surfaces – printed, sequinned, feathered, texturised – a fetishisation of decoration almost.  Towards the end of Paris Fashion Week, when our heads were filled with showgirls, tribal ferociousness and paintbrush strokes of art colliding with… Continue reading Too Good

Tilted

>> I bet there were PR chicks all over the world scratching their heads over what to do with Versus' latest campaign.  One click on the Versus website, which houses their collections as non-seasonal "happenings" and on to the M.I.A. capsule collection page, you find an ever-shifting grid of GIFS created by Jaime Martinez, plonked… Continue reading Tilted

Step in Time

We clapped.  We cheered.  We whooped.  But did we fully understand the subtext of Rick Owens' S/S 14 showformance?  There was mild anticipation beforehand that Owens would come up trumps with a performance like his mens S/S 14 show where Estonian hardcore band Winny Puhh thrashed about  Owens described that at the time as "cheerful… Continue reading Step in Time