The secret art of male dressing
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Tom Ford’s Black Orchid scent hangs seductively in the air, setting the tone of a heady evening and installing those pre-party butterflies that sleep low in the stomach. Music quietly accompanies the cli...
London Fashion Week: Osman
Promising to evoke the dusty grandeur of Indian palaces, echoing maharajas and maharanis, the glossy white runway of Bloomsbury Ballroom was set for some East-West fusion. The result was surprisingly light and ...
Pretty in pink at Burberry Prorsum SS14
Thank the lord for Burberry! If it wasn't for them I don’t know how we would even see the likes of powerhouse models Liu Wen or Xiao Wen Ju in our humble little town. Not to mention the powers that be in the fa...
Lacoste SS14
It was all about the hard lines of the tennis court for Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s SS14 Lacoste collection – it began with the contrast piping that navigated its way over the block colours, this gradually got b...
Toodle-pip Y’all!
Two years after the acclaimed, delicate portraiture of their debut, Lights Out, London-Cali two piece Big Deal, aka Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood have returned with a more robust sound, adding a coupl...
Lip lip hooray
Most of us are on a quest in search of that secular holy grail – the perfect lipstick. Lipstick Queen founder Poppy King was too – so decided to create them herself, starting her business at the tender age ...
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...