When I was eighteen most teens my age would want to go and "have a large one" out in Bangkok/Corfu/Magaluf (delete according to preference and budget). I wanted to take the Eurostar to Antwerp and see the birthplace of the "Antwerp Six", wander around looking at old glove shops and chocolatiers and stay in a… Continue reading RA Revisited
Category: Travel
Bento!
Food and fashion coming together in any instance is always welcome around here. I'm in the process of thinking up a way of getting a Come Dine With Me featuring London fashion peeps YouTube series together purely because of a momentary brainwave on the way to a dinner party at designer duo Matthew Harding and… Continue reading Bento!
Taipei Spirit
There's been an attack on my inbox all the way from Taipei in Taiwan. An attack of the good sort. For some reason in the space of a week, a trio of labels from Taiwan have sent me their latest collections which somehow all feature a surreal mish mash of printwork that are signs that… Continue reading Taipei Spirit
Les Enfants Gates
Smack a designer with the prestigious ANDAM prize of EUR230,000 and you might think that they could bend to the pressure of "growing up" or joining the designer "big leagues". Thankfully Julien David did no such thing. In fact he was ballsy enough to show a collection that centred around "Les Enfants Gates" – the… Continue reading Les Enfants Gates