Interiors of Charleston I have a few places on my list to day trip whilst August limps by. High on this list is Charleston in Sussex, the bucolic getaway of the Bloomsbury set in the 1960s, conjured and nurtured by painter Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf and kindred spirited artist Duncan Grant. I doubt… Continue reading Life in Squares
Category: Television
The I Word
"Who is your style icon?" Cue *Heavy groan and eyes rolling back into the head* I always feel like I'm being deliberately difficult when I answer that question by saying that I think the words 'icon' and 'iconic' are carelessly overused and that in a fashion context so often the same tried and tested answers… Continue reading The I Word
Look at Life
Look at Life was a regular British series of quirky and short documentary films produced by Rank Organisation, which informed and educated cinema going audiences between 1959 and 1968 in the UK, preceding the main feature film and providing insight into the advances of technology, the changing tastes and trends of the tumultous decade of the… Continue reading Look at Life
21st Century Arale
>> A few months ago I got a strange interview request asking me – a non Korean, never-been-to-Korea, in no way an expert on anything Korean person – about whether I thought Korean fashion was making serious international waves following Gangnam Style mania or as part of a broader "Korean Wave" cultural movement. The simplistic… Continue reading 21st Century Arale