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?
I hope you can join me either tomorrow or Saturday, when I’ll be alongside hundreds of other retailers, offering a selection of vintage and pre-worn pieces, unique accessories and unusual festive gifts...
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?
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.
I unleashed my inner artist at a 'decorative collage workshop' led by textile designer and artist Sarah Campbell to coincide with an exhibition of her work at Anthropologie's in-store gallery for London Craft Week.
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...
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.
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.”
After many prototypes, including setbacks when her horse Jester had surgery for a tumour, and she moved home, she finally created the perfect riding skirt. Each and every one is hand tailored by Odette in her Bristol based studio, where she cuts every pattern and individually sews each skirt.
“We rely on the human face for trust, confidence and friendship, at work as well as socially,” which is why the Invisi Visor is such a great idea for those looking to continue operating as near normal as possible in these uncharted times of COVID-19.
The store’s mission is to help local people sell their record collections, reinvesting the proceeds towards the building of an archive, which already includes 650 of the 900 albums recorded at the studios between 1966 and 2009.
