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The Gallery of Fashion: Nikolaus von Heideloff and Regency Style
by Susan Muncey January 30, 2021
Featuring some of the best examples of coloured aquatint applied to fashion plates, the volumes depict the elegance of the Regency period – and there are nine of them for each year of publication.
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Should We Be Wearing Black?
by Susan Muncey January 26, 2021
Many of the clothes seen on catwalks and in fashion magazines recently have been vibrantly coloured... Is this not disrespectful at a time when we are mourning the loss of so many lives to COVID-19?
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Diaries, Personal Organisers and Getting Things Done
by Susan Muncey November 18, 2020

Do you spend more time planning what to do than actually doing it? Perhaps, like me, you are an innately organised Virgo, who loves nothing better than rearranging papers in the inbox of your desk, or neatly rewriting part-completed lists for future reference?
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Purple, Patchwork and The Religion of Dress
by Susan Muncey October 31, 2020
Everything we wear has a story of manufacture, provenance, or personal signification. It also conveys a message to others. But Mulford went so far as to attribute our very state of being to our clothes.
- Books
- Colour
- Dress Codes
- Fashion History
- Slow Fashion
- Vintage
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From Kaftans to Couture: Thea Porter’s Fashion Legacy
by Susan Muncey September 21, 2020
Thea Porter was known as “the ultimate purveyor of ultra-luxe bohemian style.” Renowned for exotic fabrics and sumptuous patterned silks, inspired by her nostalgia for the Middle East...
- 1960s
- 1970s
- Collecting
- Fashion as Legacy
- Fashion History
- Textiles
- Timeless
- Vintage
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Bill Gibb: Fashion, Fantasy, Bees, and a Curious Conundrum
by Susan Muncey September 8, 2020
Ahead of his time in so many ways, Gibb’s designs often featured a bumblebee motif, which became his trademark... There is one particular sketch that remains something of a mystery.
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A Brief History of the Riding Habit
by Susan Muncey July 3, 2020
The first habits adopted elements of men’s attire and were often inspired by military uniform. A caption to a 1779 drawing by John Downman in the Fitzwilliam Museum describes, “The Lady of Henry Bunbury in the Suffolk Militia uniform, the fashion of the day.”
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Kyoto to Catwalk: Kimono from the V&A to Your Closet?
by Susan Muncey June 11, 2020
Kimono are worn wrapped left side over right, something I discovered when a Japanese friend kindly informed me the (opposite) way mine was worn was only appropriate when dressing the dead for burial.
- Collecting
- Craft
- Exhibitions
- Fashion History
- Kimono
- Slow Fashion
- Storytelling
- Textile Art
- Textiles
- Vintage
- Wearable Art
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Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci: Studio 54 and the Art of Curious Fashion
by Susan Muncey February 7, 2020
The arrival of Studio 54 in 1977 marked the beginning of the age of celebrity and unbridled, 'out there' exhibitionism.
- 1970s
- 1980s
- Fashion
- Fashion History
- Style
- Vintage
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Love Is...
by Susan Muncey February 4, 2020
My enthusiasm for the brand rubbed off on my beau. We wore matching pairs of high-waisted jeans, and sweatshirts in Cortina blue.
- 1980s
- Collecting
- Fashion
- Fashion as Legacy
- Fashion History
- Fiorucci
- Romance
- Storytelling
- Style
- Vintage
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The Gallery of Fashion: Nikolaus von Heideloff and Regency Style

Should We Be Wearing Black?

Diaries, Personal Organisers and Getting Things Done

Purple, Patchwork and The Religion of Dress

From Kaftans to Couture: Thea Porter’s Fashion Legacy

Bill Gibb: Fashion, Fantasy, Bees, and a Curious Conundrum

A Brief History of the Riding Habit

Kyoto to Catwalk: Kimono from the V&A to Your Closet?

Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci: Studio 54 and the Art of Curious Fashion

Love Is...