I'm more than familiar with Louise Goldin's collaborative work with Swarovski given that I wore a pair of her A/W 10-11 knitted cycling shorts that were edged with a band of crystals during Paris Fashion Week. Sparkle and knits combined mean people wanting to come up and stroke my thigh. Nope – don't mind at… Continue reading All That Sparkles: Louise Goldin
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All That Sparkles: Prabal Gurung, Vivienne Tam, Alexander Wang
The Swarovski sparkle continued on Saturday, albeit in both traditional and far more discreet ways than Jason Wu's crystal encrustations that have now incidentally popped up in more scattered formations in pieces from Suno and Diane von Furstenberg's collections. Prabal Gurung has been getting a lot head nods from critics and it could just be… Continue reading All That Sparkles: Prabal Gurung, Vivienne Tam, Alexander Wang
Sunoooooooooo!
What can I say about Suno that I haven't said before? This could so easily have been a straight forward image post, with a brief addendum to add to the last review of the S/S 11 collection. Except it wasn't a case of outputting more of the same as the Suno duo Max Osterweis and… Continue reading Sunoooooooooo!
All That Sparkles: Jason Wu
Why the sparkles? Well, for one, to sparkle is to be happy. Why live in a matte and cakey-looking world when it can be a shiny and shimmery one? On a more serious note, in a fashion brand context, sparkle equates to Swarovski aka fashion's sparkle dust fairy godmother. Their fashion designer sponsorship programme is… Continue reading All That Sparkles: Jason Wu