For all the NYFW talk about performance as an alternative to the traditional fashion show (Gareth Pugh, Opening Ceremony’s play – I’m still thinking it out before I post, and best of all, Olivier Saillard’s Models Never Talk performance piece), we forget that Thom Browne is a dab hand at creating mesmerising mise-en-scenes, where you… Continue reading Welcome to the Garden Party
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Big Up HK
I make a bit of a mockery of my Hong Kong identity card (in addition to being a British citizen, I also have right of abode in Hong Kong). It sits in my drawer gathering dust in its plastic cover whilst I barely visit Hong Kong unless it’s for work purposes or I need to go… Continue reading Big Up HK
A Thread and a Will
When I wrote about Copenhagen-based designer Wali Mohammed Barrech’s latest SS15 collection shown under terse and rousing circumstances, I wrote about the diminishing strand of fashion that seeks to comment, provoke and perhaps even disturb. That conversation has shifted to editorials (often crossing the boundary from contemplative to crass) and at present only a handful of designers at the top of their… Continue reading A Thread and a Will
Spiritual High
“Material Girl Mystical World” is the tagline of The Numinous, a website started by Sunday Times Style contributor Ruby Warrington, who believes that, despite living in a material world, we can combine new age (or “now age” as Warrington asserts) thinking and post-modern spirituality and still enjoy the aesthetic pleasures of fashion. Or to sum… Continue reading Spiritual High