Tech and fashion after a longstanding frosty stand-off, where one has been in fear of the other, have finally reconciled the fact that it is inevitable that they will go to bed with one another. It’s been well documented that Apple have spent fashion month wooing the fash crowd, with editors flown out to Cupterino… Continue reading Super Women
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Some Kind of Shangri-La
Metallics. Iridescence. Sheeny shinyness. Layers. These are the components that make up the outfit equivalent of Shangri-La for me. The main facilitator? A Miu Miu jacket from the current A/W 14-5 collection, looking all delicious and tempting in-stores and online, stuffed with pastels, parkas and plastic brilliance. How did I get it? I was very honoured to be… Continue reading Some Kind of Shangri-La
Japonaiserie
The 1970s. Underwater life. Japan. Admittedly they sound like simplistic inspirations but SS15 can be distilled thus. These are tropes that have been trundled out in fashion time and time again and that they’ve cropped up this SS15 should have seen our eyes rolling at the predictability of it all. After all a few designers did go in for… Continue reading Japonaiserie
Past Modernity Continued
There was a lot of past voyeurism for SS 15. Some voyages felt like mere pastiche as they ventured to the near past. Others went beyond the surface of a decade and took us somewhere new – or at the very least, fresh. That’s what it felt like at Dior. I should have been feeling deja… Continue reading Past Modernity Continued