Simply elegant
Acclaimed designer Collette Dinnigan has been designing beautifully detailed clothing for over two decades. Perhaps best known for her lingerie and childrenswear, she brings a chic yet delicate touch to her...
It Can’t Rain All The Time
It’s been 18 years since Medicine – America’s retort to My Bloody Valentine, both melodiously and ear-bleedingly – fractured to pursue solo projects. Their opening duet of LPs, especially 1992’s Shot Forth ...
Taoism
Tao Okamoto is not a typical Japanese bijin (“beautiful woman”) even though she embodies the classic beauty imagined by artists of ancient times, as if she has stepped out of a hanging scroll of Edo-period Japa...
Haute-itude
French designer Alexis Mabille enjoys playing with gender distinctions in clothing. While Mabille now has become well known for his breathtaking haute couture collections, there is a natural sense of tailorin...
Furry tails and fairy tales
Luke Haines is a rock and roll animal. He’s punched out window panes, shot at a roadie with a flare gun and brawled with Matt Johnson of The The. But that’s all in the past. Now, all grown up and very much ...
Designer Spotlight: Lulu Guinness
Fashion and art have always shared a common bond. With an almost symbiotic relationship, the connection between the two is stronger than ever before and the lines becoming increasingly blurred. This connectio...
The art and craft of Caroline Groves
When I was a little girl there was a certain fairytale that I found totally unbelievable. How was it that not a single woman in the whole kingdom could fit into Cinderella’s glass slipper? Growing up in an ...
PFW AW13: Atelier Versace Couture Fall
Naomi Campbell dashingly opened the Atelier Versace catwalk show in Paris – sleek and mature, a powerful specimen of a woman in a powerfully executed, racy black mini.
The collection featured dyed animal ski...
Raf Simons Spring 2014 Show at
Raf Simons’ Spring 2014 collection catwalk presentation at Paris Fashion Week was headily women’s wear and children’s wear inspired, with models donning the likes of shorts jumpers with modest, kiddie-like U-ne...
Prada Opens Store in Sanya, China
Prada opened a new store this week in Sanya, a well-known tourist destination in Southern China, located in the luxury of The Ritz-Carlton resort.
The store, designed by architect Roberto Baciocchi, occupies...
MFW SS14: Marni
Marni’s first look presented at Milan Fashion Week was a limey yellow, layered trench, setting a colourful precedent to the remainder of the collection. Successive looks proved just as strong, but often with a ...
MFW SS14: Vivienne Westwood MAN
Vivienne Westwood showed her menswear line MAN at Milan Men’s Fashion Week yesterday. Citing inspiration from her travels in India, she boldly utilized the catwalk as a canvas for her statements on India caste ...
56 Welbeck St. Contemporary Extended Stay
No. 5 Maddox Street’s anticipated contemporary extended stay sister property in Marylebone Village has arrived. 56 Welbeck St. resides discreetly in a Georgian townhouse in the heart of central London and boast...
John Varvatos SS14 Collection at Milan Fashion Wk
Pocket chains and low lighting, sunglasses and post-coital hairstyles, a bit of a boot cut and a little bit of leather. All things not too far off for the usual John Varvatos, rocker-chic style. The pocket squa...
I Sing the Body Electric
It throws you that someone of Kim Gordon’s art-rock stature, someone who has redefined the position of “female-guitarist” throughout 30 years of uncompromising cool and squall should come across as vulnerab...
LCM SS14: Nasir Mahzar
Nasir Mazhar’s Spring Summer 2014 collection was a daring exploration of street style and bondage-inspired athletic wear. Carrying over the avant-garde structuralism of his millinery creations, Mazhar’s catwalk...
Ada + Nik SS14 Showcase at LCM
Nik Thakkar and Ada Zanditon’s eponymous Ada + Nik debut collection launched yesterday for London Collections: Men at St. Martins Lane Hotel.
The collection featured the Remus and Romulus tops, bringing a bit ...
Frances Aviva Blane: Critics Choice at Critics Circle show at Mall Galleries
From June 10 – 15 at London’s Mall Galleries we have a unique opportunity to discover the intimate relationship that exists between artist and critic. All 24 members of the Visual Arts and Architecture section ...
Mile High – Destination Sicily
When hearing the words “mile high”, one might think of clandestine lovemaking at dizzying altitudes en route to an exotic faraway destination. In the case of Dine Mile High, you can ditch the former idea up...
Hermès SS14 Collection at Paris Fashion Week
The Hermès Spring show at Paris Fashion Week was refreshingly casual — it was adeptly and holistically adherent to the concept of springtime. The whole collection seemed blithe, fresh, and brazenly wearable.
T...
Bronze Goddess by Estée Lauder
Bronze Goddess 2013 Colour Collection
If there’s a beauty collection that is synonymous with summer, it would have to be Estée Lauder’s Bronze Goddess collection. Launched each year with a theme that evokes ...