A review by Rebecca Bell. In many ways more exciting for me were the sites beyond the Biennale territories of the Giardini and the Arsenale where art is lined up ripe for the picking. One of the off-site venues was the Iceland Pavilion. In a palazzo near the Rialto two rooms show the work of [...]
A review by Rebecca Bell. Amongst the many national pavilions of the Giardini is the British Pavilion, whose entrance sits at the top of a flight of steps between heavy neoclassical columns. When we arrive the steps are filled with people waiting to see the hourly screening of Steve McQueen’s film Giardini, inspired by the [...]
CAROLYN MASSEY Whilst fashion’s love in with trends come and go, Carolyn Massey’s passion in investigating vintage army and outdoor wear shows no threat of transition. Over successive seasons, she has worked hard to appropriate the intelligence and quality of vintage menswear into her heavily researched work. Her SS10 collection, finds it’s direction in the [...]
JAMES LONG Every now and then fashion switches it’s focus, and a trend from only a few years ago, thought dead and tired, can feel fresh and have meaning again. Take military uniforms, it’s camouflage prints and olive fatigues last had it’s serious heyday with the All Saints (the girl group) and Maharishi in the [...]
It was the London Design Festival last week and flat out after LFW it was nice to take in something else, and to be somewhere different. So on Saturday afternoon we headed down to Portobello Dock, which was part of the Icon Design Trail. Portobello Dock is one of those places we have always wanted [...]
With his S/S 10 ‘FOLDING DIAGRAMS FOR A SPREAD SQUASH’ Collection, TIM SOAR deviates boldly from any pre-conceived notion of what we might expect from him. The collection story deals heavily in perceptions, with an eclectic yet cohesive selection of looks displaying an understated uniformity of concept. Soar appears to see the world not as [...]