Thanks to my good friend Hips Like Boys for alerting me to the V&A Reading Rooms. I love a bookshop, especially a browse-friendly one, and even more especially a fashion-design-art one. Claire de Rouen and Koenig Books in Charing Cross Road are my first choices for book porn but tend to be a bit, er compact, for extended browsing. (more…)
When I’m at home I look like a slob! T-shirts, sweaters and Uggs. I love Uggs, they are the best thing that have happened to feet!
Andre Leon Talley, Grazia
“Bicester Village is like the Disneyland for grown up Cinderellas”, beamed Thandie Newton yesterday morning, perched on a podium in Bicester Village’s latest store. I couldn’t have put it better myself. Newton was there to champion the great and good of young British fashion in part two of a brilliant project cooked up between the BFC and Bicester Village’s owners, Value Retail. The British Designers Collective pop-up store was first launched this time last year and it was so successful, they’re doing it again. (more…)
