As a fashion journalist, when you attend a two-day beast of an event drawn out to the extent of say, Nike’s Innovation Summit, you often wonder why it is that mega maisons can’t immerse you into a similar level of technical nous. I’ve come close, scratching at factories, ateliers and studios but it’s not really… Continue reading The Personalisation of Sport
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All Things Wooly
The bundled up wooly days of NYFW seems like an age away, especially now that I’ve just landed in sunny Seoul for Korea Fashion Week but as I’ve been working with Woolmark on highlighting all things wool at the shows for Merino.com, I also wanted to recap here what was an interesting contest between technique… Continue reading All Things Wooly
Pink Power
When a magazine came round to shoot the house last week, I sprung into visual merchandising mode, ensuring my multiple stacks of stuff had some semblance of colour and textural order. There’s no way of minimising the amount of fashion paraphernalia that I have accumulated over the years. Perhaps I’m clutching on to it all,… Continue reading Pink Power
Roots Manoeuvring
Once my parents realised that I’m not in fact just cruising through a ‘fake career’ of swanning around fashion shows and ‘playing’ at being a journalist, they’ve both been hugely enthusiastic – nay, insistent that I should go back to Hong Kong more often and in their words, ‘ply my trade’. As in, take whatever supposed… Continue reading Roots Manoeuvring