This week in New York, I’ve been thinking about identities of designers and brands. Whose identities are most pronounced? Who has lost theirs? Who is severely in need in one as they bounce from one thing to the other without consistency? Sadly I feel there are a clutch of designers in New York, who answer in the… Continue reading Clearing up the Fog
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Pink Power
When a magazine came round to shoot the house last week, I sprung into visual merchandising mode, ensuring my multiple stacks of stuff had some semblance of colour and textural order. There’s no way of minimising the amount of fashion paraphernalia that I have accumulated over the years. Perhaps I’m clutching on to it all,… Continue reading Pink Power
Alt Ruffle
Kids in Paris had a right laugh during haute couture fashion week. They had a bright fuschia pink and a blur of an oversized floral smock to point and giggle at on the Metro. I was mightily content though to be the laughing stocking because I had an awesome time, swishing, rustling and flapping about… Continue reading Alt Ruffle
For Starpeople Waiting in the Skies
It seems a bit reductive to go with the David Bowie tide and lump Maison Margiela’s latest Artisanal show as a “tribute” (does that word end up feeling a bit hollow and disingenuous, when it crops up time and time again in headlines?). I’d argue that John Galliano’s character – particularly the one he has… Continue reading For Starpeople Waiting in the Skies