After the inaugural Vogue Festival organised by British Vogue had ended last year, people were already asking when the dates for the next one had been set, such was the success of that first fesival, which I reviewed here. It has been a year for Cond√© Nast to expand their scope beyond publishing magazines – a… Continue reading Vogue Fest Second
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Sculpted
There hasn't been a new-new name knocking around the blog for a while now and so it's time to rectify that with a look at the Korean-born, London-based Rejina Pyo, whose exhibition "Structural Mode" at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen grabbed me instantly. Her MA collection of ceremonial colour-blocked gowns and wooden totem sculptures that… Continue reading Sculpted
Heroic
>> Key, statement or show piece – that's the sort of language that peppers fash-journo speak when it comes to describing that one item of clothing which is decreed more special than the others because of its visual appeal. You can add "hero piece" to that pile of jargon. I've annoyingly taken to calling this… Continue reading Heroic
The Experienced
For all my talk of the young and the new, there's also no denying that experience sometimes shows. I thought I knew the land of the lay when it came to Australian Fashion Week, having attended for the last four years. This time marked my first Toni Maticevski and Easton Pearson shows, with over ten… Continue reading The Experienced