Designers

London fashion Week AW11: Preen’s re-see



“We’ve been doing long for a couple of seasons now”, Preen’s Justin Thornton told me when I asked why there were no mini-mini dresses on the rails of their informal presentation at St Martins Lane Hotel. “It just feels right for us and more modern.” In (more…)



London Fashion Week AW11




Aaaand we’re off. The tickets are here and have been divvied up into colour-coded envelopes. The camera, laptop, Blackberry and chargers are on standby and the Berocca is ready and waiting. Best of all, the designers are planning to share the coverage far and (more…)



Jocks & Nerds



I’m not going to plaster pictures of myself all over this blog but I had to share this photo that was taken in Cassie Mercantile‘s garden for Jocks & Nerds magazine by Marcus Ross. Ross was previously a fashion editor for i-D before sidestepping into photography and setting up Jocks & Nerds magazine. He sent out an email searching for Ralph Lauren fans to be photographed and of course I put myself forward. (Jocks & Nerds is aimed at men but he thought in this context it would be good to feature a woman.) (more…)