Usually I need to wait a few months, sit on a Prada collection and then go forth with my verbal diarrhea. This time round, I came out of the Prada S/S 13 show with my brain a-whirring, which was then further revved up when I saw the collection up close in the showroom a day… Continue reading “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads”
Category: Trends
That’s Fly
It feels like an vague statement when I waffle on about my search for innovation in fashion. In the latest issue of Elle Collections, I think I may even have said that we're at a point in time when true innovation and revolution is lacking in fashion. Blame that hasty statement on late-night email bashing and… Continue reading That’s Fly
Limits Tested
I know it sounds a little like lazy fashion journalism to throw around the phrase "it's so wrong, it's right", as if everything that had an inkling of bad taste could be excused with those words. Depending on the person, one could argue that something that seems "wrong" to most, is really just that –… Continue reading Limits Tested
“Asian is so hot right now”
When Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler summed up their A/W 12-3 collection by saying "It's Asian but in a New York way", I had visions of girls running around downtown (or indeed uptown at Proenza Schouler's impending new store on Madison Avenue) scrabbling around and figuring out ways how to "do" an Asian look. I'm… Continue reading “Asian is so hot right now”