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Sometimes I come across an image that is just perfect. It isn’t airbrushed, it isn’t a 14-year old girl in women’s clothing, it isn’t art directed. I thought Linda Evangelista was the picture of perfection at Art Basel in Miami, earlier this month. Yes, she’s a Supermodel. But she can teach us all a thing [...]
My fashion foundation was a little rocked this morning – and the fashion publishing world is a little less rock and roll. Carine Roitfeld resigned from Paris Vogue today. I gasped out loud. After a cup of reality, it all made sense. Of course. She has to be leaving for one reason – and his [...]
Art and fashion often intersect. Sometimes, as I flip through images in my fashion life, my art life calls out. An image in front of your eyes recalls another, filed in the microfiche of your mind. Like a scrolling blue-violet and white blur, it goes forward, then back, up, down, until it settles and you [...]
Christopher Bailey and Angela Ahrendts glammed it up in Mumbai, earlier this week. They were in the Motherland to celebrate Burberry’s store opening in the home of film and frou, as well as their fashion footprint in the country as a whole. Here’s a slick vid from the company of the event – the contrast [...]
Lee McQueen was honoured earlier tonight in London at the British Fashion Awards, posthumously, with the prize for Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design. The ceremony was to open with a film by Nick Knight, photographer, Director of SHOWstudio.com and friend of Lee. It’s a haunting and beautiful film – but it saddens me. The loss of [...]
Uncle Karl has been busy working with tire-maker Pirelli on their infamous calendar, now in its 38th year. With the Greek and Roman mythology theme chosen for 2011, a few famous faces and friends of Karl’s appear in their buffed, polished and refined natural glory. I never tire (I had to!) of Karl, frankly. He [...]