Am supremely excited about the upcoming documentary of Bill Cunningham, highlighted by The Telegraph today.
Cunningham, 81, has documented street fashion in NYC for the past 50 years navigating through those famed streets on a rusty bike with a trusty Nikon.
This seemingly humble creative focused on every walk of life, and […]
Times have changed since I was at school, in my day there was no t’internet, no mobile phones and a fax machine was cutting edge technology.
If there was a central information site which listed fashion courses, creative workshops, had online learning, my world would have been different, and i have […]
So you all know that I’m in the throes of writing a book, right?
Ok – so the current stage is that it’s in its first draft stage and I’m in the process of writing the book proposal.
Having never written one of these before, or rather, successfully written one, I am […]
So we all know that world is imploding. We know it because whenever we turn on the radio, internet or open a newspaper ( remember them) we are faced with the grim reality that the banks are crooks, the hospitals are dirty and that the forests are being sold off.
So […]
Over the past 6 months my career has taken a slight tangent. Quiting a full-time position on a Runway line, shown at NY fashion week, I started to write a book and decided to take a consulting role in development or production projects. Still with the intention of working in […]
Trying to shake off its reputation of cheap mass-produced imports, China’s manufacturing arm is removing the shackles from the past to re invent itself with a focus on new design talent, and a quality angle that will, or at least should, have some heads turning. And rightly so.
I’ve worked with […]
I wouldn’t say my obsession with bags has been life long but certainly over the past 10 years my love and affection has grown significantly.
Moving from large totes that contain a little less than the kitchen sink I have moved recently towards clutches and have around 15 or so which […]
Sometimes I wish I was a bloke – no, it’s true. It’s not about the car nor the geeky apple items that smack me across the head with jealousy it’s the tailoring that does it.
What specifically am I on about now?….. EHUD menswear, that’s what.
His new collection shown in Paris […]
Thrilled to see that The Barbican has extended its showing of Future Beauty: 30 years of Japanese Fashion til the 6th Feb and even happier to note that the V&A will start a career retrospective of Yohji Yamamoto on the 12th March.
I wouldn’t say that my own personal style revolves […]
I’ve always been a fan of Fred Perry.
I was never a mod nor a skin but for some reason I loved their simple branding and their desire to stay true to the heritage.
I even interviewed with them once for a product developers position – It went down to me and […]