Old or new, Alaia never fails to floor me and the last couple of seasons have really been quite exciting to watch, as he emerges and is relevant again. The nickname ‘King of Cling’ is really not applicable and I think gives people the wrong impression of Alaia as his collections in the past and… Continue reading Slayed by Alaia
Category: Shoes
Paris Peeking
So here I am sitting in a high rise hotel (high for Paris anyway) tapping away and completely rinsing the free internet connection (gratis is not a word you hear often in Paris hence the rinsing…). Unfortunately though over the next few days, I’ve made a conscious decision to keep the PFW live coverage quite… Continue reading Paris Peeking
Shoestrings further explored
I feel like these days all I’m ever doing is rejigging and tweaking things. You probably all think I’m some sort of baked-beans-on-toast scoffing student what with me wearing skirts as dresses, making belts into corsets and generally squeezing as much as I can out of my wardrobe. I treat it all mean… to keep… Continue reading Shoestrings further explored
My kind of pick-me-up
Crying at the office is just tragic on all kinds of levels. You can’t weep openly like you would in the privacy of your own home. You can escape to the toilets for a while and sob silently and not for too long as people will suspect that you’ve gone off to cry. It’s embarrassing… Continue reading My kind of pick-me-up