Watch This Space
If you grew up in the late 1970s or ‘80s then G-shock the popular watch brand of electronics manufacturer Casio, would have been your timepiece of choice. Sporting the inimitable design on your wrist, you were ...
Bernstock Speirs website launched
In celebration of their newly launched website, mad hatters Bernstock Speirs have commissioned a film by Romain Sellier, entitled Bunny Love.
Their new e-shop will be making their designs available to a wide...
PFW AW14: Alexander McQueen
Dark romance is the beating heart at Alexander McQueen and this season it rose unfettered from the warrior woman corsets of SS14 in spectacular form.
Guests were transported to a moonlit moor-like environ, w...
PFW AW14: Saint Laurent
Assuming the helm of a historic fashion house brings with it many challenges. First collections are either applauded or derided, artistic visions that do not sit well with the image of what the house “should” b...
PFW AW14: Valentino
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli have been at the helm of the Valentino label for five years now, with admirable success. The rejuvenation of the brand, their meticulously researched and executed coll...
Can’t Buy Me Love?
If you’re a die-hard romantic with an innate sense of style, perversely The Feast of St Valentine is probably the day you dread the most. Wilting bouquets, candles stuck in cheap Chianti bottles and over-blown ...
Valentino Couture SS13
There has been much talk of late of a new era in fashion, both in couture and pret-a-porter. A desire for beautiful yet wearable clothes and the sea change in certain fashion houses, both in appointments and di...
Chanel Couture SS 13
Paris’ two big fashion power houses have clearly squared up against each other for this season’s couture offerings – it’s the battle of the botanicals. Yesterday saw the carefully pruned gardens of Dior, today...
Christian Dior Couture SS13
The second couture offering by Raf Simons for the house of Dior was a charming bouquet containing the tight buds of spring and the beautiful, full flowers of early summer.
This collection was a far cry from ...
Mi Casa (blanca) est su Casa (blanca)
“Of all the gin joints on all the world” I ended up at Ric’s Bar Americain in Casablanca in readiness for the city's annual fashion week and started my love affair with Morocco's most business-minded popul...
Wedding belle
Me and weddings don’t mix. Firstly there’s the travel. The current fashion is for the entire party to move en mass to more sunnier climes than our rain-sodden shores can provide. This becomes a “mini break”...
Art as life
It has been 40 years since a Bauhaus exhibition has been on show in the UK and its opening at the Barbican cannot have been more timely.The year 2012 means the Olympics to Britain and the spirit of unity wh...
Are you sitting comfortably?
What does one think of when certain South American countries come to mind? Rain Forests? Tropical grassland? La Violenca? FARC? Drug Cartels? Add into the mix some ex-prisoners and you’re more likely to be ...
A definite shoe in
I love being a woman. The sartorial choices available to me are immense and the ideals, oh so attainable. Stark angular and Belgian during the darker winter months, ruffled, printed and exuberantly Italian ...
French fancy
There are restaurants that are big and buzzy, giants built in or on the ethos of the ‘90s. Clattering pans, steaming plates and red-faced chefs bringing the business of show to the restaurant trade. There a...
A night among the stars
Showers of sequins, exuberant feathers, embroidered transparencies stretched across a lithe frame, slashes in silk jersey so high they should have been illegal and long languid looks on some of the most sen...
Cream of the crop
September in the capital is inevitably grey and a little dull. However summer was definitely here when the collections presented at London Fashion Week gave us a brief respite from our “challenging” British...