Nike has created many recognisable footwear icons in its time but can the same be said for its apparel? The Windrunner is perhaps one of the few exceptions that really is the foundation of Nike’s clothing identity, when it was first developed in the late seventies by its then newly formed in-house apparel design team. It… Continue reading Wind Running
Category: Susie Styles
Fun House
>> I’m showing my newly augmented age (it was my birthday yesterday) with this reference but here goes. It might seem a tad tenuous to link up Miu Miu’s current cruise collection that is in stores with bygone British children’s TV game show Fun House but… exaggerated stripes? Lashings of red and yellow? Those oversized earrings that the cheerleading… Continue reading Fun House
A Collection of Us
Playing on our collective love of nostalgia, the word “archive” seems to have popped up quite a bit lately in a bid to perhaps look back in order to go forward. Topshop launched their Archive Collection back in July and Jigsaw’s current autumn winter campaign pits nineties Jigsaw pieces with current ones, to emphasise the… Continue reading A Collection of Us
Say Y.E.S.
For the last leg of my Asia tour (which yes, I realise makes me sound like I’m a has-been pop star milking it out in Far East), after a two year absence, I finally made it back to Hong Kong. Actually, “back to” makes it sound like I’m very familiar with the place. I’m not… Continue reading Say Y.E.S.