Having been mired in the fashion month bubble, a few notable London happenings have passed me by. London Design Week has been and gone. And as we speak, I’m about to get on a flight to Seoul, whilst Frieze is in full swing and London Film Festival is about to commence. I’m basically missing this… Continue reading A Multi Way of Living
Category: Shopping
Buckle Up
“If you get the right bag, an It bag, a hit bag, your label moves into a different league.” So said the fictional British designer from that guilty-pleasure read from years back, Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones (free e-book to skim read if you want to kill a few hours). Since publication nearly ten years… Continue reading Buckle Up
Erdem’s She
Some designers speak with lashings of references to “I” or “Me”. Some use the brand associated “we”. Erdem Moralioglu talks about “her” and “she”. “She” is the girl or woman (or someone in between) that is in Erdem’s mind constantly, as he designs collections and builds sets around her. For A/W 15-6 she was an eclectic American ingenue… Continue reading Erdem’s She
Oh My Gosha
There are few instances from the last decade that I can recall where a fashion collection has truly gone viral in reality. By “viral” I mean actually spotting multiple instances of one fashion collection on the streets – and by “streets”, I don’t mean Tommy Ton’s street style images shot in the heightened environment of… Continue reading Oh My Gosha