>> My love of Maripol is part and parcel of my vague obsession with that late ’70s- 80s era of downtown New York burst of underground creativity from Antonio Lopez to Jean-Michel Basquiat. Through her Polaroids, she documented a scene that easily seduces the likes of me, who want to live vicariously through those hedonistic… Continue reading Wearing Maripol
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Reine du Tricot
>> The knitwear fixation continues. There was hesitation to include these two beauties in my Twelve Christmas Jumpers line-up and rightly so. Last night, after doing battle with a particularly juicy bird (no euphemism intended) and a pomegranate, I’m afraid these two Sonia Rykiel pieces have emerged worse for wear. Before juices went flying around… Continue reading Reine du Tricot
Felt Tip Penned
>> The feeling of putting a thick permanent black marker pen to paper and making that squeaky foam to fibre sound is a satisfying one. I’d imagine then that Beth Postle, this year’s graduate of Central Saint Martins BA menswear design and print, had a riot with her collection of chunky black markers when coming… Continue reading Felt Tip Penned
Forget Me Not
>> It’s that time of year when choir boys singing hymns in exalted church surroundings, advent calendars, nativity scenes and all manner of Christian traditions are taken up en masse, even if we’re now a largely secular society. It just so happens that Sorcha O’Raghallaigh, who has long been pre-occupied with religious iconography in her… Continue reading Forget Me Not