You are what you eat and in Louise Grays case you are what you wear. Only 3 seasons in and Gray’s collections always feel like a further step in a personal journey of self discovery or self awareness. For her fashion design is some sort of cathartic experience in an attempt to define as purely [...]
Blow Presents at the Royal Festival Hall, Happy to balance things out after the mega hype of the Katrantzou/Fast shows, we headed across the water to the Royal Festival Hall for Blow Presents, a subdivision of their LFW schedule showcasing 4 new and more experimental projects. The crowd was an odd mix of east-end fashion [...]
MARY KATRANTZOU Everything has to move forward including fashion which is always heavily laden with retrospective elements, so while silhouette and style references swing back and forwards its exciting to know we are in the midst of a textile revolution. Textile designers are biting at the bit to make their statement on fashion and indeed [...]
The fashion team at Slashstroke magazine are clearly on the side of the knitter,in our current issue we feature Electronic Sheep and Tim Ryan, both dedicated to yarn. The basic premise that a garment can be knitted suggest endless possibilities for shape, construction and texture and Canadian born Mark Fast is certainly pushing those boundaries. [...]
Extract from “DIRTY LOOKS” a new book of poetry by Cheryl Follon, released in February 2010. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852248653 I had forgotten about poetry, totally left it behind in 1992 with my secondary education, there was never a decision to not like it, I’m sorry poetry but I simply forgot about you. So thank you Cheryl for [...]
emo, peri peri,love and a napkin. Of course they go together. Brilliant.