News
Proud Galleries Present The Dior Collection
An exhibition of fashion photography explores the heritage and metamorphosis of Christian Dior throughout its early years, as well as its legacy and impact on the fashion industry. (read more)
fashion
News
China Changing Festival Returns for Grand Finale
Southbank Centre’s China Changing Festival celebrating innovative contemporary Chinese culture returns with a packed four-day programme for its grand finale. (read more)
Society
Quality is King: Building a New Clothing Line
Architect turned fashion designer Lee Johnson is setting up his own brand of clothing ‘Old Bull Lee’ (read more)
Society
Loitered Lens: Great British Tattoo Show (Part Two)
Needles, inkguns, rubber and balm – colourful scenes from Alexander Palace (read more)
Sound
Black Swan, White Swan: Bloom Twins, Nambucca
Skinnycandy gets a dose of stream of consciousness at the appropriately Joycean Bloom Twins (read more)
Events
Celebrating The Legend of Leigh Bowery at The Glory
A night dedicated to the memory of London’s most flamboyant polysexual playperson (read more)
News
Would Average-Size Models Supersize Sales?
When it came to established brands, average-sized models could be used interchangeably with size zero models, with little or no impact on product or model evaluation (read more)
Society
Artist or designer? [Alexander McQueen retrospective]
McQueen wraps the girls up protectively, in fabrics fitted so elegantly and perfectly that you begin to wonder if the clothing is meant to be like a shield. (read more)
Society
Semmy Levit : My Secret Dressing Room [Interview]
Our research showed that women buy clothes, but wear them very few times. The more expensive and sensational the purchase, the less likely they were to wear it again (read more)
Society
Business Interview : Colin Leslie Eyewear
People need to appreciate that we are all responsible for our environment. If we wish to maintain certain standards and ways of living, we need to. (read more)
Society
PAFT Relief with Rachael Reichert
CyBelle Horizon: a comic book, a video and a catwalk show all surrounded by vintage issues of American comic books. It could, and perhaps should, have been a total disaster (read more)
Society
PAFT Relief
The Designer Cosa Nostra have now decreed that their collections must fully express the zeitgeist by embracing art, philosophy, cinema, music and God-knows-what-else.
You may think that these ‘ideas’ were simply scribbled on the back of an oestrogen pill packet over some expensive wine-soaked lunch a week before the show. Not so. The seasonal fashion calendar is a demanding bitch and, to her, foresight is everything. (read more)