24 January, 2025 The aspirational familiarity of Lemaire and Auralee AW25. While the major fashion brands have seemingly gone nuts with their pricing, it makes sense that a certain demographic has shifted attention to Lemaire and Auralee.Both just showed at the menswear shows – precise (and practical) layering, easy-but-interesting silhouettes, harmonious colour palettes and distinctive ...

6 February, 2025 Japanese convenience chain FamilyMart is getting a fashion glow-up. The vogue for hypebeast grocers (documented in my aw24 trend report) continues.. News just in: Japanese streetwear wonderkid Nigo has been named creative director for convenience store chain FamilyMart.If you’re thinking Tesco or Co-Op, it’s a bit more significant than that.

14 January, 2025 The Toscani effect. Farewell Oliviero Toscani, a brilliant photographer and art director who changed the world through his audacious activism dressed as fashion advertising.. I became aware of him in the 1980s via his vibrant fashion shoots for Benetton using groups of racially diverse, often street cast models in simple studio …

A new foodie and bibliophile destination has landed in Bond Street courtesy of @maisonalaia. Unlike other luxury fashion houses with their ultra brand-coded cakes and confectioneries (hello Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami cakes) this is a somewhat more wholesome approach.

30 January, 2011 Who is Disneyrollergirl? The beginnning Almost four years ago I started a blog. Working as a fashion editor by day and doing extra freelance writing by night, I still didn’t feel I had the opportunity to say what I wanted to say.

12 September, 2023 Trend report: what to wear for AW23. AW23 is emphatically female-focussed, kicking off with supermodel mania – that Vogue cover, the Apple series and a Linda Evangelista book – and continuing with a slew of women-championing exhibitions. We’ve also got the big Phoebe Philo reveal to come, as well as a focus on revivalist classic fashion (aka gentlewoman style).

Jan 4, 2008 · It’s true, I always feel a little pained upon opening each season’s “fashion reports” free with the glossies. This is partly because the name of trends seem to become more and more obsurd and partly because of my great, great hatred for trends such as “Nautical” and “Safari” which have become to ultimate fashion cliches, and sadly, seem to be trends relied upon by the ...

24 January, 2025 The aspirational familiarity of Lemaire and Auralee AW25. While the major fashion brands have seemingly gone nuts with their pricing, it makes sense that a certain demographic has shifted attention to Lemaire and Auralee.Both just showed at the menswear shows – precise (and practical) layering, easy-but-interesting silhouettes, harmonious colour palettes and distinctive ...

9 January, 2025 The culture of fashion: Alaïa for foodies and bibliophiles. Just after New Year I treated myself to a banana bread and coffee date at the new Violet Cakes cafe in the New Bond Street Alaïa store. Food and fashion have been forging an alliance for some time and I was reminded that Azzedine Alaïa was a natural instigator of this idea as far back as the 1980s.

29 May, 2023 Shop the post: summer beauty update. I finally made the pilgrimage to Sephora UK! It was good but not as epic as I’d built it up to be. I really like the self-service element – it feels like the only truly self-service beauty store where the advisors aren’t poised to ambush you.