The ever-accelerating march onwards of seasons and micro seasons keeps the fashion industry churning. Each season (or each week if you’re ASOS and pals), we’re subjected to new styles, silhouettes, prints and cuts, rendering the ones we feel like we literally only…
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In my last post, I mentioned my sudden but deep and burning desire for a pair of red boots. This desire was brought on purely by osmosis. Those with the most connections or the deepest pockets began slipping their perfectly…
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Some fashion insiders have recently started to argue that trends are dead, or at least outdated, within the modern fashion cycle. They say we’re increasingly guided by personal style and that, in the face of shifting show and buying calendars,…
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Fashion month has come and gone. Kanye’s disaster at Roosevelt Island feels like a decade ago, and Gigi Hadid and Kendal Jenner must have strutted down at least half a million runways since that day (give or take). Much like AW16,…
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I bought my first hoodie when I was 11 and entering my seminal grebo phase. I felt like a serious (albeit harmless, 11-year-old) rebel walking around in my black, oversized Linkin Park hoodie, probably paired with huge corduroy loons and…
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This time round, New York Fashion Week showed little progress and a steadfast dedication to current trends. Many shows were derivative to the point of being repetitive; not so much re-invention as simply re-doing. This isn’t to say that it…
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As a child, most history lessons were spent pondering not the political ins and outs that led us to various wars, but the exquisite dress worn by both the significant figures and the every day people of days gone by.…
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I’ve ploughed through an endless amount of collections to produce a selection of Halloween costume ideas straight from the catwalk. Jean Paul Gaultier’s SS13 homage to a string of 80s popstars doesn’t feature, as that would be far too easy.…
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The third and final installment of Fashion Month in Collage. With Milan and Paris come the big names – Gucci, Prada, Balenciaga, Christian Dior, et al. The run up to shows from these major houses bring anticipation as we wait…
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Continuing my look at fashion month SS16 in collage format. London Fashion Week hurtled by and we’re now fixated on Milan’s offerings. London is generally my favourite of the four main weeks due to the creative and anarchic nature of…
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