You could already hear the green/eco/sustainable hardcore semanticists baying for blood when Karl Lagerfeld uttered the words “a high fashion ecology” and made statements such as “sustainability is part of our expression of the times”. Back off you green washing evil high fashion corporation! You can’t hood wink us into thinking that Chanel’s haute couture S/S 16… Continue reading Wood Working
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Varsity Hues
It was almost inevitable that after the hulking shearlings and the badged-up bikers from seasons before that Stuart Vevers would take on the mighty varsity for Coach’s A/W 16 collection, shown in New York in February. There could have been a danger of dipping into varsity fatigue. Re-shaped, recoloured and personalised – it’s been through most… Continue reading Varsity Hues
The Personalisation of Sport
As a fashion journalist, when you attend a two-day beast of an event drawn out to the extent of say, Nike’s Innovation Summit, you often wonder why it is that mega maisons can’t immerse you into a similar level of technical nous. I’ve come close, scratching at factories, ateliers and studios but it’s not really… Continue reading The Personalisation of Sport
Layers of Gucci
Last Saturday, I did my usual Milan Fashion Week Montenapoleone scout, bouncing from store to store and then finding sanity inside the pistachio-hued Pasticceria Marchesi, where nothing bad could possibly happen. Inside the Gucci store, a woman in her mid forties was trying on a deliciously pink quilted coat from the current cruise collection. I… Continue reading Layers of Gucci