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…)
“I don’t understand why in St Pancras they put up that tacky statue of two people kissing when they should have put up a statue of Manolo Blahnik. That would be much better.”
Ines de la Fressange, The Telegraph
Last year I wrote a piece for Glass magazine about the newly revived interest in trunk shows. The trend is building in 2011 with the launch of businesses like ‘online trunk show’ Moda Operandi and the likes of Jason Wu hitting the road, so I thought I would reproduce the piece here. (more…)
