10 February, 2011

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…)

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9 February, 2011

Roller Boogie

I’m not sure what’s worse, the news that Tom Ford isn’t remaking Roller Boogie or the fact that I’d never heard of the film. My bad.

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5 February, 2011

Quote of the day

“Every week I have a summary sent over of the positive blogs, the negative blogs and the interesting blogs. I read them on paper. It’s interesting to see what is making the rounds, what people are talking about. All of our work as designers is to understand what people are thinking, where the world is going, how things work. It’s one of many sources of information.”
Miuccia Prada

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3 February, 2011

Ready to dream about intelligent shopping?

This amalgamation of fashion content and commerce that I have been banging on about for a while (or ‘edvertorial’ as I think we now have to call it *gag*) is sprinting along at a fine pace. Newest to the ‘edvertorial space’* is Pret-A-Rever, a site that first appeared last year but has relaunched this week. Combining ‘intelligent editorial’ with affiliate shopping (linking to etail sites and collecting a commission on items sold), editor Lucy Norris plans to make the luxury retail experience more creative and culturally relevant. (more…)